SP visits border polling stations, directs to step up security

SP visits border polling stations, directs to step up security

West Godavari district Superintendent of Police, Ajita Vajendla, inspecting a polling station in Akiveedu mandal on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Superintendent of Police Ajitha Vajendla inspected the polling stations located on Eluru and West Godavari districts border villages on Thursday. The SP, who made surprise checks in the polling booths at Upputeru, Dempagadapa and other … Read more

Ground Zero | Along the Indian-Myanmar border, living in a limbo

Ground Zero | Along the Indian-Myanmar border, living in a limbo

Soon after the Tatmadaw, or Myanmar’s military, seized power in a coup d’etat in February 2021 by displacing the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led government, Sumi, 18, fled the country. She crossed the border into India and finally secured a job in Treasury Square, the administrative hub of Aizawl, Mizoram’s capital. Sumi was not too … Read more

Mizo student body urges Centre to reconsider its decision to fence Indo-Myanmar border

Mizo student body urges Centre to reconsider its decision to fence Indo-Myanmar border

Mizoram Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati. File | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Mizoram’s apex student body Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reconsider the Centre’s decision to fence the Indo-Myanmar border and scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR). In the letter sent through State Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati, the MZP expressed … Read more

BSF troops seize arms, ammunition near India-Pakistan border in Punjab

BSF troops seize arms, ammunition near India-Pakistan border in Punjab

“The vigilant BSF troops successfully thwarted nefarious designs of the terror-mongers from across the border,” a BSF spokesperson said. (A file photo used for representational purpose only.)  | Photo Credit: PTI “An AK-47 assault rifle, two magazines and 40 cartridges were seized by the Border Security Force (BSF) from a field near the India-Pakistan border … Read more

Officials raid border market in Tripura to check quality of traded goods

Officials raid border market in Tripura to check quality of traded goods

Tripura government officials on Wednesday raided a ‘border haat (market)’ at Srinagar in south Tripura after receiving complaints that substandard and expired consumer items were being sold there. They have also taken samples of various perishable items, including fish, for laboratory tests. The Srinagar-Chhagalnaiya (the latter in Bangladesh) border haat is one of two haats … Read more

Border Peace and Tranquility Agreement | Limited peace, unlimited tensions

Border Peace and Tranquility Agreement | Limited peace, unlimited tensions

The peace agreement being signed in the presence of then Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao and then Chinese Premier Li Peng in Beijing on September 7, 1993. | Photo Credit: PIB It took a border crisis that dragged on for years to finally bring India and China to the table. Thirty years ago, officials from both sides, meeting in the aftermath of the Sumdorong Chu stand-off that strained relations, thrashed out what would be a historic first ever border agreement between … Read more

Kerala suspected Maoists encounter | Intensified vehicle checks continue at T.N.-Karnataka border

Kerala suspected Maoists encounter | Intensified vehicle checks continue at T.N.-Karnataka border

Intensified vehicle checks at Tamil Nadu’s border with Karnataka at three places in Erode district continued for the third consecutive day, to prevent suspected Maoists from escaping. A Kerala police special forces Thunderbolt team exchanged fire with suspected Maoists in the  Uruppumkutty forest in Karikkottakary, in Kerala on November 13, after which five suspected Maoists escaped into the forest area. Of the five, A. … Read more

India-Nepal border forces’ talks to begin in Delhi tomorrow

India-Nepal border forces’ talks to begin in Delhi tomorrow

Border guarding forces of India and Nepal will hold a three-day bilateral meeting in New Delhi from November 6 and discuss measures to curb trans-frontier crimes and timely sharing of intelligence inputs, an official said. The seventh edition of the annual coordination talks between the two countries is led by India’s Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) director general … Read more

In Red Corridor along A.P.-Chhattisgarh border, a tribe keeps its customs, memories alive

In Red Corridor along A.P.-Chhattisgarh border, a tribe keeps its customs, memories alive

Stone memorials erected in memory of community servants by the Gutti Koyas of Ramachandrapuram in Kunavaram Mandal of Alluri Sitarama Raju District on Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border. In the dense forest nearly 10 km from the main road on Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border in Kunavaram mandal of the district, three stone memorials greet visitors to the tiny village … Read more