External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar clarified recent comments regarding progress in India’s border dispute talks with China, stating that the “75%” completion he referred to pertains only to the disengagement of troops in eastern Ladakh. Speaking at the Asia Society Policy Institute, Jaishankar explained that while troop disengagement had advanced significantly, other critical aspects of […]
Category: Eastern Borders
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 […]
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-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.
Locking horns at the border Smugglers and security agencies face-off on the India-Bangladesh borders over illegal cattle trade
On July 6, the Border Security Force (BSF) informed about the surge in cattle smuggling to Bangladesh due to the forthcoming Eid-ul Azha or the Qurbani Eid on July 31. The press release elaborated on the various techniques adopted by the smugglers for transporting the cattle. It also detailed the various cruelties inflicted by smugglers on the animals and warned that the consumption of such meat might be injurious to human health. Further, it flagged concerns about unemployed poor youths being lured into this network for meagre amounts of money. These youth face all the risk while kingpins of the racket earn billions of rupees while sitting in their safe havens.
Need for paradigm shift in operational and tactical domains in border security
India has an international land border with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Bhutan. The land border also includes the de-facto border with Pakistan and China described as Line of control and Line of actual control respectively. The total length of the land border is 15,106.7 Km. ….
Proactively guarding the borders
In order to outmanoeuvre the adversaries, India’s border guarding forces must focus on evolving their tactics from largely manpower-intensive border guarding system to technology-based proactive surveillance system.
The preoccupation of the Nation with happenings in Eastern Ladakh has caused the strategic…
