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  • BSF shoots down 2d drone in 3 days alongside Pak border in Punjab 

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI/ AMRITSAR: The Border Safety Power shot down a quad-copter drone on Sunday evening alongside the India-Pakistan global border within the Amritsar area, officers stated.

    That is the second one such incident within the closing 3 days at this frontier.

    The drone weighing 12 kg had 4 propellers, intercepted and shot round 9.15 pm close to the Rania border put up in Amritsar sector by way of the troops of the twenty second Battalion of the BSF, they stated.

    Some consignment that was once loaded and being ferried by way of the drone was once additionally recovered.

    Extra main points are awaited, a BSF spokesperson stated.

    In a an identical incident that happened at the intervening evening of October 13-14 the BSF shot down a big (quad copter) Pakistani drone within the Gurdaspur sector of Punjab.

    NEW DELHI/ AMRITSAR: The Border Safety Power shot down a quad-copter drone on Sunday evening alongside the India-Pakistan global border within the Amritsar area, officers stated.

    That is the second one such incident within the closing 3 days at this frontier.

    The drone weighing 12 kg had 4 propellers, intercepted and shot round 9.15 pm close to the Rania border put up in Amritsar sector by way of the troops of the twenty second Battalion of the BSF, they stated.

    Some consignment that was once loaded and being ferried by way of the drone was once additionally recovered.

    Extra main points are awaited, a BSF spokesperson stated.

    In a an identical incident that happened at the intervening evening of October 13-14 the BSF shot down a big (quad copter) Pakistani drone within the Gurdaspur sector of Punjab.

  • BSF weapons down Pakistan drone alongside border in Amritsar 

    Via PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Border Safety Drive troops in Punjab’s Amritsar on Friday shot down a drone after it had sneaked into the Indian territory from Pakistan, officers mentioned.

    BSF staff on the Shahpur border outpost fired 17 rounds once they spotted the drone coming from the Pakistani facet round 4:30 am, an legit of the border guarding power mentioned.

    Illuminating bombs had been extensively utilized to extend visibility because it used to be nonetheless darkish, he legit, including that the drone used to be shot down right away after it entered Indian territory.

    A rope used to be additionally discovered hooked up to the drone, the legit mentioned, including {that a} seek operation used to be underway within the house.

    BSF Director Basic Pankaj Kumar Singh on Wednesday had mentioned the power used to be alive to the specter of drones and that it were running to counter it.

    The BSF guards India’s borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. The whole period of Punjab’s border with Pakistan is 553 kilometres.

    CHANDIGARH: Border Safety Drive troops in Punjab’s Amritsar on Friday shot down a drone after it had sneaked into the Indian territory from Pakistan, officers mentioned.

    BSF staff on the Shahpur border outpost fired 17 rounds once they spotted the drone coming from the Pakistani facet round 4:30 am, an legit of the border guarding power mentioned.

    Illuminating bombs had been extensively utilized to extend visibility because it used to be nonetheless darkish, he legit, including that the drone used to be shot down right away after it entered Indian territory.

    A rope used to be additionally discovered hooked up to the drone, the legit mentioned, including {that a} seek operation used to be underway within the house.

    BSF Director Basic Pankaj Kumar Singh on Wednesday had mentioned the power used to be alive to the specter of drones and that it were running to counter it.

    The BSF guards India’s borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. The whole period of Punjab’s border with Pakistan is 553 kilometres.

  • BSF fingers over kid who inadvertently crossed into Indian territory to Pakistani Rangers

    By way of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: A 3-year-old boy, who had inadvertently crossed over to the Indian territory, was once passed over to the Pakistani Rangers, stated the BSF on Saturday.

    The Pakistani boy was once apprehended by means of the Border Safety Pressure troops from the Ferozepur sector in Punjab on Friday, consistent with a BSF commentary.

    “The kid was once not able to expose anything else and was once saved below protected custody of BSF,” stated the commentary.

    “Because it was once a case of inadvertent crossing, the BSF additional approached Pak Rangers,” it stated.

    The kid was once passed over to the Pakistani Rangers as a goodwill gesture and on humanitarian flooring, it stated.

    “The BSF at all times takes a humane method whilst coping with inadvertent border crossers,’ it stated.

  • Safety forces alert to risk of drones from throughout border: BSF officer

    Danger of drones have been provide far and wide alongside the Indo-Pakistan border however safety forces are alert to foil any nefarious design from around the border and to verify the safety of the folk.

  • BSF is helping villagers throughout border give ultimate farewell to relatives

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    KOLKATA:  Going past the decision of responsibility, BSF group of workers posted in Malda district made preparations for Bangladeshi nationals to pay their appreciate to a relative at the Indian aspect, who died of illnesses two days in the past.

    The frame of Abdul Khaleque (55) used to be introduced close to the 0 line for a handful of kin from Bangladesh to bid a last just right bye. “After Khaleque’s demise, his members of the family dwelling in Keshtopur village underneath English Bazar police station house asked our forty fourth battalion of the BSF posted within the house.

    They informed us that a few of their kin survive the opposite aspect of the border in Bangladesh and wish to see the mortal stays of prior to the ultimate rites are carried out. The commandant accredited the request,” mentioned a senior police officer.

    The circle of relatives approached the commandant throughout the native panchayat Pradhan. “The commandant contacted the top of the battalion and he used to be given a nod. Khaleque’s members of the family had been informed to tell their kin in Bangladesh and requested to deliver them close to the 0 line of the border,” mentioned the BSF officer.

    After you have nod from the commandant head, a message used to be dropped at Border Guard Bangladesh. Khaleque’s frame used to be saved close to 0 Line for quarter-hour from 10 pm.  Mehtab Mondal, a villager of Keshtopur, mentioned the want of Khaleque’s kin may well be fulfilled most effective on account of the BSF’s effort. “I used to be additionally provide there. Escorted by way of the group of workers of Bangladesh Border Guard, the kin from Bangladesh got here and carry out their ultimate rites. We witnessed the BSF’s just right gesture to fulfil the want of Khaleque’s kin dwelling in India and Bangladesh,” he mentioned.

    A senior BSF authentic mentioned the power organised quite a lot of drives to broaden cordial members of the family with the native citizens. “On many events, we transported sufferers to hospitals and prolonged is helping to scholars This is a part of our activity in order that we will be able to take native other folks into self assurance and obtain knowledge from them about crimes going down within the border house,” mentioned some other BSF authentic.

  • BSF is helping Bangladeshi family bid adieu to Indian girl who died

    By way of PTI

    KRISHNAGANJ: The circle of relatives of Ila Mandal, who died at a border village in West Bengal’s Nadia district, sought after her family at the different facet of the barbed wires to peer her for a final time.

    Her death want used to be fulfilled as BSF organized to take the frame to the 0 Level at the border the place her family from Bangladesh had been looking forward to a final glimpse of the 70-year-old girl.

    Mandal, a resident of Matiari village in Krishnaganj police station space, died on Thursday.

    Lots of her family reside in Chuadanga at the different facet of the border in Bangladesh.

    Mandal’s circle of relatives reached out to the border power, inquiring for permission in order that their Bangladeshi family organize to pay homage to her frame earlier than it’s cremated.

    The BSF quickly were given involved with the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), which organized for the family to discuss with the 0 Level.

    The BSF helped the circle of relatives in bringing the frame to the spot the place they paid their remaining recognize.

    “But even so guarding the border, BSF additionally remains with the folks of their ache and delight,” stated Desh Raj Singh, the BSF commanding officer of the realm.

    Tens of hundreds of households had been cut up when India used to be partitioned in 1947, resulting in the advent of East Pakistan — which therefore become Bangladesh.

    West Bengal stocks a 2,217-km-long border with Bangladesh, but even so language, tradition and culinary behavior.

  • Eid: BSF exchanges candies with Pakistan, Bangladesh troops at border 

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Border Safety Drive (BSF) on Tuesday exchanged candies with its opposite numbers in Pakistan and Bangladesh at more than a few places on the entrance at the instance of Eid-ul-Fitr.

    The paramilitary power is tasked to protect the 2 delicate and essential borders with its neighbours.

    Whilst it stocks a three,323 lengthy world border (IB) with Pakistan on India’s western flank, the India-Bangladesh entrance at the jap aspect of the rustic is 4,096 kms lengthy.

    Candies had been exchanged between Pak Rangers and BSF at the instance of Eid-ul-fitr on the Attari-Wagah joint test put up alongside the IB in Punjab, a spokesperson of the power mentioned.

    The alternate of candies was once additionally carried out all alongside the border posts in Samba, Kathua, RS Pura and Akhnoor underneath the Jammu frontier of the power.

    “BSF Jammu introduced the candies to Rangers and Rangers reciprocated the BSF gesture.” BSF has all the time been on the vanguard in developing a calm and congenial surroundings at the border whilst dominating it successfully. Such gestures lend a hand construct a calm surroundings and cordial dating between each border guarding forces,” the spokesperson mentioned.

    Equivalent alternate of candies wad carried out between the BSF and its jap counterpart Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), at a number of issues around the entrance.

    The South Bengal frontier of the power headquartered in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, mentioned its troops exchanged candies and greetings with BGB group of workers at Pertrapole (North 24 Parganas district) and different posts.

    “Each the border guarding forces percentage cordial and congenial members of the family. The alternate of candies are a goodwill gesture and mirror true comradeship. It additionally is helping in construction and strengthening cordial members of the family,” the spokesperson mentioned.

    The spokesperson added that in conjunction with the greetings of Eid-Ul-Fitr competition, BSF is keeping up “alertness and strict vigil” alongside the border spaces at the jap entrance.

  • Morale low as stagnation prime throughout BSF ranks

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    NEW DELHI:  The Border Safety Power (BSF) team of workers who guard the country’s frontiers, seem to be dropping motivation as a result of the loss of avenues for expansion inside their carrier. Take the periodic cadre assessment. Its said purpose is to make projections of necessities of team of workers and to rationalise the cadre construction to be able to support potency and morale.

    But, cadre assessment of BSF’s Workforce B and C has no longer been performed because the pressure got here into lifestyles in 1965. Seven years in the past, the primary proposal for his or her cadre assessment was once despatched to the Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) for approval. There was no ahead motion but.

    “A cadre assessment proposal for team of workers under officer rank (Workforce B & C) was once ordered on Would possibly 15, 2015 through the Director-Basic of BSF. The proposal was once despatched to the MHA on Nov 3, 2015,” a senior officer stated.
    Whilst Workforce B contains inspectors and sub-inspectors, Workforce C has constables and head constables. Workforce A incorporates officials — assistant commandant and above. TNIE spoke to a couple of team of workers of the BSF to know the placement.

    For Workforce A, the Delhi Prime Courtroom in 2016 ordered a cadre assessment, pointing to the more youthful age profile of commanders within the Military the place an officer turns into a commanding officer with round 16 years of carrier. It directed the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) to likewise deliver down the age profiles in their commanders. The typical age profile of a BSF commandant, the commanding officer of a unit, is 52 years at the present, knowledgeable the officer quoted above. The BSF has a energy of round 2,55,000 — round 2.5 lakh under officer rank and round 5,000 officials.

    Ranks and promotions are a vital a part of the morale and motivation mechanism for each and every combatised pressure. But, a candidate becoming a member of BSF on the backside of the pyramid can believe himself fortunate if he turns into a head constable after 21 lengthy years of carrier. For, no longer all constables of the 2000 batch have picked up head constable ranks.

    At the present, a constable takes greater than 32 years to transform an assistant sub inspector and 36 years for promotion as sub inspector. Only a few achieve the inspector rank. “Achieving the rank on an assistant commandant is a rarity,” stated resources.

    Regimen promotions not on time even for BSF officials: House Ministry

    The stagnation is similarly unhealthy on the officials’ degree the place a BSF assistant commandant, who should have transform a deputy commandant in 5 years, is taking 12 years to pick out his first rank. There may be main stagnation at each and every next rank. The MHA is the cadre controlling authority of the BSF. In its letter on April 20, the MHA said that no longer even regimen promotions are taking place on time.

    As in keeping with the Division of Body of workers and Coaching, cadre assessment is to be performed each and every 5 years. It says, “Then again, as in keeping with the main points furnished through the Forces in the case of Departmental Promotion Committees (DPCs) for promotion of more than a few ranks for the emptiness of 2022, it’s been noticed that a lot of DPCs for promotion in more than a few ranks are pending finalisation.”

    The letter requested the CAPF, together with the BSF and Assam Rifles, to check out and whole the method of DPCs through June 30. However the senior officer was once skeptical on whether or not it is going to deal with the well-liked stagnation. The issue has transform perennial as a result of, “The MHA has no present mechanism to watch grievances and occupation progressions of CAPF officials and resolves them,” the officer stated.

    BSF low on candidate choice: Find out about 
    “An interior research of the bureaucracy crammed through applicants becoming a member of the pressure presentations that BSF is without doubt one of the closing in selection, for each officials and team of workers,” a senior BSF officer knowledgeable

  • ED arrests former BSF commandant in livestock smuggling case

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    NEW DELHI: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has arrested Satish Kumar, former commandant, 36-Battalion of Border Safety Pressure (BSF) in a cash laundering case associated with livestock smuggling on the Indo-Bangladesh World Border. He had gained Proceeds of Crime (POC) of Rs 12.8 crores from Mohammed Enamul Haque, the alleged kingpin of a livestock smuggling racket operating around the border, within the accounts of his spouse and his father in regulation.

    This Proceeds of Crime had been additional laundered by way of buying immovable homes and Mutual Finances. He was once produced ahead of a town court docket within the nationwide capital on Saturday and he has been remanded to ED custody for 3 days.

    That is the second one arrest on this subject. Previous, Haque was once in February and recently, he’s in judicial custody. One prosecution criticism was once filed on this case on April 16 ahead of a Delhi court docket.

    The court docket took the cognizance of the criticism. Within the criticism, 3 –Haque, two brothers– Vinay and Vikas Mishra and 3 firms similar to those folks particularly Hoque Industries Pvt Ltd, Hoque Mercantile Pvt Ltd and Anant Tradecom Pvt Ltd were arrayed as accused. Vinay is former Trinamool Congress early life wing chief.

    ED initiated money-laundering investigation at the foundation of an FIR registered in September 2020 by way of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) towards Satish Kumar, Haque, Mohammed Anarul SK, Mohammed Golam Mustafa and different officers of BSF and Indian Customs.

    The whole proceeds of crime associated with the criticism filed is Rs 25 Crore on this case.

    “Throughout the process investigation on this PMLA case, 24 searches were carried out to this point. Until date homes value greater than 18.5 Crore were hooked up on this case. Additional, investigation within the case is in development,” stated the ED.

  • BSF recovers hands, ammunition close to Indo-Pak border in Jammu; troops on alert 

    Via PTI

    JAMMU: The Border Safety Power (BSF) Thursday recovered a cache of hands and ammunition right through a different seek operation (SSO) alongside the Global Border (IB) in Jammu, officers mentioned.

    They mentioned the SSO used to be introduced as there have been intelligence inputs about Pakistan-based terrorists making an attempt to smuggle guns into the Indian territory.

    The troops had been on prime alert following the adversarial inputs and had been ceaselessly patrolling the spaces close to the three-tier border fencing alongside the IB, they mentioned.

    The SSO used to be introduced at the zero-line forward of the fence alongside the IB in sub-sector Pargwal of Akhnoor right through which a bag stuffed with guns and ammunition used to be recovered, they mentioned.

    The recoveries come with one AK-47 rifle, 20 rounds of AK-47 rifle, two magazines, two made-in-Italy pistols, 40 rounds of pistol and 4 pistol magazines, they mentioned, including the troops avoided a significant tragedy by way of making sure the consignment smuggled from Pakistan didn’t input India.

    Speaking to journalists, BSF DIG S Okay Singh mentioned the troops as soon as once more uncovered the evil designs of Pakistan-based terrorists and made a giant dent on their nefarious actions.

    He additional mentioned the BSF is on prime alert at all times and dedicated to protected the Global Border.