Raipur: At least eight CRPF personnel were killed and three others injured in a Maoist attack in Sukma district of Chattisgarh on Tuesday. According to a CRPF official, Maoists targeted a team of 212 CRPF personnel between Kistaram and Palodi in the district at 12 noon and blew up a[Read More…]
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Four Maoists killed in Jharkhand
Ranchi: Four Maoist guerrillas, including two women, were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Jharkhand’s Palamu district on Monday, police said. The gun fight figuring some 12 members of the banned Maoist organisation, CPI-Maoist, took place early in the day at Marunga hill after the militants discovered the[Read More…]
Rakesh Asthana becomes CBI Special Director; Gurbachan Singh new IB Special Director
The government on Sunday has promoted senior IPS officers, Rakesh Asthana and Gurbachan Singh as special directors of the central bureau of Investigation (CBI) and intelligence bureau (IB) respectively in a key bureaucratic reshuffle. While officers Deepak Kumar Mishra and Sudeep Lakhtakia have been elevated as special DG in the[Read More…]
Aim to provide Rs 1 cr to kin of jawan killed on duty: Rajnath Singh
Union home minister, Rajnath Singh said his purpose is to provide Rs one crore as monetary relief to the families of personnel of central armed forces killed on duty. The minister addressed a Sainik Sammelan at the Khanabal headquarters of the 90th battalion of CRPF on Sunday. He said, “It[Read More…]
More jawans die in Maoist-hit areas than in Kashmir
According to government reports, the number of security force personnel killed in Maoist-affected areas was more than that in conflict-hit Jammu and Kashmir. The report further added that the left-wing insurgency accounted for the death of 67 soldiers out of 106 casualties in the first seven months of 2017. According[Read More…]
School girls molested at Rakhi-tying event by CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh
A case has been registered against unidentified members of CRPF after it was said that some school girls were inappropriately touched during a cultural event held ahead of Raksha Bandhan in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district. A case was registered under section 354 IPC and POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses[Read More…]
Depression and health issues kill jawans 16 times more than Naxal operations
In the last three years, CRPF jawans have mostly died of depression or medical reasons than they have on anti-Naxal operations said the government on Tuesday. As per reports, heart attacks, depression and other medical reasons killed sixteen times more CRPF personnel than action in anti-Naxal operations. In a written[Read More…]
Vivek Oberoi’s company donates 25 flats to killed CRPF jawans’ kin
Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi’s company Karrm Infrastructure has donated 25 flats to the families of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans who died in different operations in Thane, Maharashtra. Reportedly, Vivek’s organistation wrote a letter to the CRPF declaring the flats to the kin of soldiers who gave their lives[Read More…]
2,000 commandos to enter Sukma soon
We should be more proactive: Rajnath Singh after Sukma attack
In order to discuss ways to deal with the Naxal violence, Home minister Rajnath Singh, on Monday, hosted a meeting with the Chief Ministers and representative of 10 Maoist-affected states namely– Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. The meeting comes soon[Read More…]
CRPF arrests 10 Naxals in Chhattisgarh
Sukma Maoist attack: CRPF man slams Rajnath Singh, PM Modi for bad governance
A video of a CRPF man, who can be seen venting his anger and expressing anguish against the home minister Rajnath Singh, after losing kin in Monday’s Sukma Maoist attack, has gone viral now. Posted by Pankaj Mishra of paramilitary force’s 221 battalions at Durgapur in West Bengal, this video[Read More…]
Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar appointed as new CRPF DG
According to reports, Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar has been appointed as the new Director-General of the Central Police Reserve Force (CRPF). The decision comes just two days after 25 jawans of the CRPF were killed by Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district. The formal announcement is likely to be made late at[Read More…]
‘Why are rights activists silent?’
Exclusive: Will start Salwa Judum again if needed: Mahendra Karma’s son
Chhattisgarh is on a high alert after the brutal Naxal attack killed at least 25 paramilitary personnel on Monday. The attack that is said to be the worst in the last seven years, took place between the Burkapal-Chintagufa areas in the Maoist centre of Bastar. In 2010, insurgents killed 75[Read More…]
24 CRPF personnel killed in Chattisgarh
Sahayak system discontinued in CRPF, BSF, says govt
Three youths killed as protests hit the Valley
The valley in Budgam district has been obstructed by the police from Tuesday as militants were suspected to have been hiding. This operation killed three and 25 others were injured. The militant was also killed in the gunbattle. 43 CRPF jawans were also injured as protesters started stone pelting. J&K[Read More…]
CRPF jawan commits suicide
A jawan of the CoBRA unit of CRPF allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at Sunabeda in Koraput district on Sunday. The person has been recognized as Shankar Prasad of New Delhi. His body was found lying in a pool of blood inside the battalion premises[Read More…]
Paramilitary forces say no to Holi as tribute to slain CRPF men
All paramilitary forces personnel have decided not to celebrate Holi as a mark of tribute to the 12 CRPF personnel who were killed in a Naxal ambush in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has issued orders that no “regimental function related to Holi celebrations” will[Read More…]
Modified pellet guns to be used in J-K: DG CRPF
A modified version of the pellet guns will now be used in Jammu and Kashmir to ward off any protest ahead or during any anti-militancy operations. CRPF Director General K Durga Prasad, who is retiring tomorrow, said the paramilitary force had taken the decision of modifying the pellet guns to[Read More…]
59 newly recruited commandos escape without informing; probe ordered
Around 59 newly employed commandos of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) shocked the brass of India’s largest paramilitary force when they abandoned their journey to the headquarters in Bihar and went home without giving any notice or information to anyone. The mass bunking by personnel forced the CRPF to[Read More…]
CCTV footage shows CRPF personnel committed suicide
Taking steps to improve jawans’ conditions, says Kiren Rijiju
The government on Thursday said it is taking all such incidents seriously and corrective steps are being taken to improve the conditions of service personnel and their food. “Several things have come to light and we are taking them seriously. We are taking this issue (CRPF) seriously. We will ensure[Read More…]
BSF issues fresh guidelines for maintaining high quality of food
Days after the video of constable Tej Bahadur Singh Yadav complaining of the poor quality of food served to BSF soldiers went viral in the social media, Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday came out with fresh guidelines for maintaining high quality of food for its personnel along the border[Read More…]