Amit Shah cutting the ribbon to inaugurate the Cyber Security Operations Centre at the Assam Rifles Headquarters in Shillong, on January 18, 2024. (India Sentinels photo via special arrangement.)Shillong: The Union home minister, Amit Shah, marked a ...
An all-girl contingent during at a post-Republic Day NCC rally in New Delhi, on January 27, 2007. (File photo for representation.)New Delhi: Signifying a major push towards inclusivity and empowering young women, the National Cadet Corps has set an a...
Rajnath Singh interacting with Rashtriya Rifles troops in Jammu & Kashmir, on December 27, 2023. (Photo: X/@rajnathsingh) Jammu/New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, visited the border areas of Jammu & Kashmir to assess the sec...
Fresh BSF recruits celebrating after their passing-out parade in Srinagar. (File photo for representation.)Morale and motivation are the vital cornerstones of any efficient force, and the CAPFs are no exception. They are intertwined; neglecting one w...
BSF women personnel during a patrol duty in the Sundarbans on floating border outpost Ganga. (BSF file photo)New Delhi: The Border Security Force is planning to raise a marine battalion, a drone squadron and procure all-terrain vehicles for patrollin...
Hamas fighters in Gaza. (File photo)The Hamas cross-border attack on Israel, on October 7, 2023, and successful infiltration by breaching the border wall between Gaza and Israel brings into focus the perils of the routine paradigm of border guarding....
Defence minister Rajnath Singh (2R) with the Army chief, Gen Manoj Pande; Air Force chief, ACM Vikram Ram Chaudhari; and the Navy chief, Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar. (Photo: MoD)“Well fought Blue, Red is the Winner.” This situa...
The Assam Rifles is a CAPF under the administrative control of the Union home ministry while its operational control is with the defence ministry. (Photo via special arrangement.)India shares land borders with Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan...
Participants at Tawang Marathon 2023Tawang: There couldn’t have been any better inaugural edition of the Tawang Marathon, a mega sporting event jointly organized by the Indian Army and the Arunachal Pradesh State government at Tawang on Sunday....
The India-Myanmar border. (Map not to scale.)Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of the United States’ homeland security once said: “People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it’s very simple: border security...
