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The first smart fence pilot project to plug vulnerable gaps along Indias borders has been rolled out in Assam on a riverine stretch with Bangladesh, the BSF chief has said. The project is a part of the Modi governments ambitious plan to completely seal the ...

At the border personnel meeting, China also accused the Indian side of damaging its road building equipment when a road laying party left its gear in Tuting in December last year following a protest by India. Manash Pratim Bhuyan reports.    In yet another incident of discord, the Chinese military last month strongly protested against what it called the Indian Army's transgressions into the strategically sensitive Asaphila area along the disputed border in Arunachal Pradesh, but the ...

Indian troops deployed along the disputed Sino-India border in the Himalayan range of the Arunachal sector have increased their patrolling at a tri-junction of India, China and Myanmar to prevent a repeat of a Doklam-like standoff. Top Army officials said ...

India has deployed more troops and significantly increased patrolling in the mountainous terrains of Dibang, Dau-Delai and Lohit valleys along the borders with China in the Tibetan region in Arunachal sector following the Doklam face-off, the most tense military confrontations between the two countries in decades. Military officials said India is also strengthening its surveillance mechanism to keep an eye on Chinese activities along the borders in the strategically sensitive Tibetan region ...

Israeli tanks shelled Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip today after Palestinians set off bombs along the border fence, the military said, with no casualties reported.A security source from Hamas, the Islamist movement which runs the Gaza Strip, said that one ...

Indian and Chinese troops have “redeployed” themselves away from the face-off site in Doklam, and China has undertaken construction of helipads, sentry posts and trenches for its army personnel there, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. “Post disengagement from the face-off in 2017, troops of both sides have redeployed themselves away from their respective positions at the face-off site. The strength of both sides has been reduced,” she said replying to a ...

Myanmar today defended deploying fresh troops to a border zone with Bangladesh where thousands of Rohingya refugees are camped, blaming a militant threat as Dhaka called for an immediate retreat to lower tensions along the troubled frontier.The increased ...

At least six security personnel have been killed in two different attacks in Pakistan's Quetta.According to The Dawn, the first one was a suicide attack on a check-post of the paramilitary force in the mountainous area, some 30km from Quetta, which killed ...

New Delhi: Every Punjabi who remembers his history and knew of Punjab as one unit, extending mightily from the borders of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) to Delhi is today a saddened person. The pride of Punjab and Punjabis the great Punjab National Bank ...