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Beset with problems of poor training and amenities, the Central Reserve Police Force saw over 90 of its field commanders either resigning or taking voluntary retirement over the last four years.
Five personnel from Assam Rifles including two officers were killed in an ambush by terrorists on Monday in a remote hill area of Manipur bordering Myanmar.
Five more bodies of personnel belonging to the elite anti-Naxal force Commando Battalion for Resolute Action have been recovered from the Dantewada Forests in Chattisgarh.
The miners are now feared dead as water from a nearby river has been gushing into the 370-feet-deep pit.
Software giant Infosys Technologies will become the first private sector company in India to get security cover from the Central Industrial Security Force, with over 100 personnel to be formally inducted on Friday at its facility in Bangalore.
The body, located 200 feet away from the bottom of the mine, was brought out using the Indian Navy's underwater remotely operated vehicle and an National Disaster Response Force boat on Wednesday, said operations spokesman R Susngi.
The CRPF has been questioning the villagers on the identity of the missing bodies, how they had disappeared, who had dug up the graves, and whether the land was used as a graveyard earlier, CRPF sources said.
Four persons, three Central Reserve Police Force personnel including an assistant commandant and a suspected Maoist were killed in an encounter in Bihar's east Champaran district on Wednesday night.
Nine live bombs were seized from the house of a school teacher, a Communist Party of India-Marxist supporter, in the Marxist party's stronghold of Khejuri adjoining Nandigram on Tuesday evening, a senior Central Reserve Police Force official said.
Cheeta, CO of the 45th CRPF battalion, was shot nine times during an operation against terrorists in the Hajin area of Kashmir Valley on February 14 this year.
NIA was on Monday allowed by a special court to conduct a lie-detector test on senior Punjab Police officer Salwinder Singh in connection with the Pathankot terror attack probe.
Acting on a tip-off, CRPF personnel went to the Janani brick kiln area with sniffer dogs and found the bombs hidden in the bushes.
Among the killed were the CRPF Assistant Commandant Vikas Chandra and constable J N Chetia of 43 batallion of the central force.
'I chose the army over glamour,' says Major Sheena, who feels no other profession elicits the kind of respect like the army does.
Noor Mohammed and Rehman Ali were arrested from Tatpaua village on a tip-off and were circulating fake currency.
Tanya's mother and brother had passed away over the past few years.
Senior Punjab Police officer Salwinder Singh on Tuesday underwent a lie-detector test in connection with NIA's probe in the terror strike at Pathankot IAF base.
A route often used by drug smugglers was apparently followed by terrorists to infiltrate into the border state of Punjab and unleash the deadly attack on the Pathankot IAF base.
'It makes my men feel very agitated. Left to them they would take revenge in their own way,' warns BSF DG Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary
SHO among 2 cops killed in Naxal ambush, 6 hurt in Chhattisgarh
BSF Director General Mooshahary said an agreement was reached with Bangla Rifles on coordinated patrolling along the border areas.
Border Security Force has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan Rangers over ceasefire violation in forward areas of Poonch and Kathua districts along the Indo-Pak border, in which a BSF jawan and a civilian were injured.
A contingent of over two dozen women, including border guarding 'mahila' troops of BSF, have embarked on a maiden 2,300 km camel safari along India's international border with Pakistan.
A Nepalese woman was miraculously rescued alive by Indian rescuers 50 hours after being buried under the rubble following the devastating earthquake that jolted the country, killing over 5,000 people.
An assortment of sophisticated weaponry belonging to security personnel, including 10 AK-series rifles, were carried off by the Naxals from the site of the encounter on Monday in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh which left 14 Central Reserve Police Force jawans dead and over a dozen others injured.
The next two days are very crucial in terms of rescuing the maximum number of pilgrims and tourists stranded in rain-hit Uttarakhand as heavy showers may come anytime, a senior official said.
'Although he was bed ridden most of the time he was in the vessel and unable to move on the upper deck, his condition is stable.'
Kirti Chakra was posthumously conferred on CRPF Commandant Pramod Kumar and Army Havildar Giris Gurung.
The Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra were posthumously awarded to Major David Manlun and Major Satish Dahiya, who lost their lives while fighting with terrorists in Nagaland and Jammu and Kashmir.
Shaurya Chakra is usually awarded to armed forces and para-military personnel for 'gallantry otherwise in the face of the enemy'.
The police identified 2 of London attackers as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane.
Three Border Security Force jawans were killed and six were injured on Wednesday after a Maoist ambush on a BSF party near the Sukma-Malkangiri border in Chitrakonda, Odisha.
Tanzil Ahmad was shot dead by two motorcycle borne persons when he was returning after attending a marriage ceremony with his wife Farzana.
Unable to stomach the country's rapid growth, anti-India forces are conspiring to inflict losses on strategic and critical installations in a bid to weaken its economy, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said.
The NIA on Monday registered a case to probe the conspiracy of Pakistan-based terrorist group, believed to be Jaish-e-Mohammed, behind the strike at the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot in Punjab.
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Thirty-three crew members of an American firm owned ship were on Friday arrested by Tamil Nadu police on charges of illegally carrying arms and ammunition and straying into Indian territorial waters without proper authorisation.
