Jaisalmer: In a coordinated effort, the Border Security Force (BSF) and Rajasthan police seized 3 kilograms of heroin, valued at ₹15 crore, near the India-Pakistan border in Sriganganagar on Tuesday. The narcotics were smuggled using a drone and dropped in a field near the village of 44 PS. Anupgarh Superintendent of Police, Ramesh Maurya, stated […]
Category: Border Security
Human Security Challenges at the India-Bangladesh Border: An In-Depth Analysis
INDIA-BANGLADESH BORDER: Human Security Challenges To this day, border regions across the globe continue to be characterized as criminally active hotspots that present especially critical challenges related to security in a human sense. Human security – as defined by the United Nations – consists of freedom from fear and want, with an emphasis on human […]
China Escalates Border Tensions with Civil-Military Fusion and Dual-Use Villages Along Disputed LAC
India’s China problem has been festering for some time now. The new Indian government will have a task cut out for it to arrest the downward spiral of ties with China as Beijing has already begun upgrading its “xiaokang” (villages) along the 3,500-kilometer-long border with India. Experts see it as a “gray zone” tool from […]
Eastern Army Chief Discusses Border Security with Mizoram Governor and CM
On Tuesday, Lt Gen R.C. Tiwari, Chief of the Army’s Eastern Command, conducted separate meetings with Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati and Chief Minister Lalduhoma to review the security situation along the India-Myanmar border and assess the operational readiness of the Assam Rifles. An official from the Mizoram government reported that Lt Gen Tiwari, accompanied […]
Addressing India-China Border Tensions: Modi’s Call for Peace
In a rare interview with Newsweek magazine, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized the urgent need for India and China to address their longstanding border disputes. With a shared border stretching over 3,440 kilometers in the Himalayas, tensions between the two nations have persisted for decades, often exacerbated by reported incursions. Modi’s statement comes amidst […]
Punjab Border: Analysing the need for a paradigm shift in strategy for effective border domination
An imperative need to revisit SOPs to achieve aggressiveness in strategy and security along the Punjab border
Illegal migration of the Rohingya from the Eastern Borders of India
The Rohingya Muslims are a stateless population who has faced brutal persecution, discrimination, and violent suppression in Myanmar and also considered the most persecuted minority in the world. They are an ethnic minority, fleeing vicious violence and armed attacks in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. The Rohingya Crisis thus includes large scale movement and migration […]
India should explore new options in Afghanistan
The participation of India’s external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, in the opening
the ceremony of the crucial intra-Afghan talks through video link has come with this
realization that only a miracle can prevent the Afghan Taliban from being
integrated into Afghan governing structures following the imminent withdrawal of
American troops from Afghanistan…..
Proactively guarding the borders
The preoccupation of the Nation with happenings in Eastern Ladakh has caused the strategic community to lose sight of one significant incident development on the Indo Pakistan Border. The shooting down of an armed Drone by troops of Border Security Force deployed at Pansar BOP in Kathua of Jammu Sector in the wee hours of […]
India-China Border Standoff: Taming the Dragon at the Border
At a time when India and China were celebrating seventy years of their bilateral relations, the Chinese fatally and brutally set new, lowered standards of unprovoked and pre-meditated intimidatory behaviour along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the un-demarcated India-China border.
