Union home minister Amit Shah at BSF’s Jumagach Border Outpost in Siliguri corridor on Saturday Kolkata/Siliguri: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the govt is committed to making the country’s borders impregnable through the concept of “smart borders” and announced that the project to fortify India’s borders with a quadrangular security grid will…
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh marked the International Day of Yoga with statewide events on Sunday.At Lok Bhavan in Itanagar, governor KT Parnaik and health minister Biyuram Wahge participated in a session where Parnaik called IDY a global recognition of India’s civilisational wisdom. He said yoga, now practised worldwide, offers a simple, affordable and sustainable tool for…
Punjab Agricultural University cycling event in Ludhiana Ludhiana: The Cycling Association of Ludhiana District (CALD) organised a grand cycling event to celebrate World Bicycle Day 2026 at the PAU campus.The event saw participation from athletes, coaches, and representatives from ITBP and NDRF units. More than 500 participants joined the event, promoting fitness, environmental sustainability, road…
Patna: An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) sub-inspector died under suspicious circumstances at a hospital in the Digha police station area of Patna on Sunday. His body was found below the hospital building. Police suspect he either died by suicide or fell accidentally.The deceased, Vijay Singh, 44, was a resident of Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district. He was…
GUWAHATI: Two units of CRPF‘s elite CoBRA commandos, the force credited with clearing Chhattisgarh’s Bastar of Maoists, are being dispatched to Manipur amid a security overdrive triggered by a fresh spell of ethnic unrest, this time also involving Naga community.State home minister Govindas Konthoujam said on Friday, “There will be some development in 2-3 days.”…
UTTARKASHI: The search for Babita Pandey, 24, an MBA student from Nainital who went missing from Ghoi campsite on the Dayara Bugyal trek around midnight on May 29, has exposed an alleged fake-permit racket in which her name and those of her two co-trekkers were pasted on an expired physical permit to bypass mandatory registration,…
Lucknow: Secondary school teachers in Uttar Pradesh whose spouses are also in govt service but posted in different districts are set to benefit from a newly introduced transfer policy that prioritises posting couples in the same district.The policy, issued by secretary, secondary education, Kinjal Singh, lays out a time-bound, points-based framework aimed at balancing staffing…
Kanpur: A day after around 60 ITBP officers and personnel reached the Kanpur Commissioner of Police office, accusing district medical officers of shielding doctors at a private hospital in a case involving the amputation of a fellow jawan’s mother’s hand, a fresh probe began on Sunday. Unlike the earlier inquiry conducted only by health department…
Rupamoni was also the first among the 11 team members to set foot on Everest Guwahati: When the Indo-Tibetan Border Police’s (ITBP) first-ever all-women team made history by summiting Mount Everest on May 21, it was a proud moment for Assam, too, as Rupamoni Gorh became the state’s first woman to conquer the world’s highest…
Aparna Kumar, a 2002-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer Lucknow: May 21 is a summit day for IPS officer Aparna Kumar, literally and metaphorically. Ten years ago on this day in 2016 the UP cadre officer created history by becoming the nation’s first IPS to scale Mount Everest — a feat achieved after overcoming two…
