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Friday, October 22, 2010
Bangladesh Claims:BSF killed Bangladeshi cattle trader
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Police Commemoration Day
From The Times of India
Oct 21, 2010
Police Commemoration Day was observed on Thursday at Frontier HQ BSF Campus Gandhinagar. Arun Kumar Sinha, IPS, Inspector General, along with other officers and troops paid homage to all police/para-military force personnel who laid down their lives for the country.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/speednewsshow/6787418.cms
Oct 21, 2010
Police Commemoration Day was observed on Thursday at Frontier HQ BSF Campus Gandhinagar. Arun Kumar Sinha, IPS, Inspector General, along with other officers and troops paid homage to all police/para-military force personnel who laid down their lives for the country.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/speednewsshow/6787418.cms
797 policemen died on duty in one year
From The Hindustan Times
Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, October 21, 2010
Around 800 police and para-military personnel sacrificed their lives in the past one year during operations or attacks on them with CRPF topping the list with 191 such cases. A total of 797 personnel from state police and para-military forces like BSF, CRPF and NSG were killed during a period from September 1, 2009 and August 31 this year.
CRPF, which is in the forefront of anti-Naxal operations, topped the list of casualties with 191 which included 76 personnel who laid their lives in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada.
Uttar Pradesh and BSF followed CRPF in casualties with 99 and 64 cases respectively.
During 2008 September and August last year, the police forces lost 841 lives with UP topping the list with 107 cases followed by CRPF (81) and BSF (72).
Punjab Police lost 57 policemen during the period while Naxal-affected state Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh had 43 and 21 casualties respectively.
The figures for Jammu and Kashmir (49), West Bengal (48), SSB (29), RPF (18), CISF (8) and ITBP (6).
A Commemoration day was today observed by various police organisations in the national capital.
Delhi Police lost nine police officers during the period. Special Commissioner (Administration) Neeraj Kumar took the salute on the occasion as Commissioner Y S Dadwal is on leave till next Monday.
Twenty-five policemen died in Orissa while the figure was nine for Karnataka, Uttarakhand (18), Bihar (16), Manipur (10), Madhya Pradesh (8), Nagaland (5) and Assam (1).
The National Security Guards lost five of their sharpshooters while Rajasthan Police lost one during the period.
BSF soldier walks past a warning sign
From yahoo.com
Border Security Force soldier walks
A Border Security Force (BSF) soldier walks past a warning sign in a remote area, about 198 km (123 miles) southeast of Agartala. Malaria kills around 205,000 people in India each year, more than 13 times the estimate made by the World Health Organization, researchers said on Thursday.
REUTERS/Jayanta Dey/Files
Chittoor to get CRPF, BSF, ITBP centres
From The Hindu
Oct 21,2010
Special Correspondent
TIRUPATI: Chittoor district, especially its semi-arid track of Pileru-Kalikiri wins a bonanza from the Central government—thanks to the largesse of the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram and the perseverance of the AP Assembly Speaker, K. Kirankumar Reddy in bagging the ‘prize' as the Piler legislator.
The Central government has sanctioned to the district three institutions—CRPF Rational Training Camp and Firing Range, a BSF new battalion and State training centre and thirdly a battalion of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. It would come up at Fateghad in Kirankumar Reddy's constituency on a 415 acre site to be allotted by the state government.
The district bagged the prestigious bonanza reportedly in the face of a stiff competition from orissa which tried to hijack it to the state. In fact the AP cabinet which allotted 200 acres in Fateghad for the setting up of the CRPS Training Centre had to reportedly cancel it subsequently, in view of the centre's initial change of mind.
It was at this juncture that Kirankumar Reddy managed to get the Home Minister, P. Chidambaram to his remote Piler constituency ostensibly to inaugurate certain developmental works but the innate idea being to prevail upon him the need to sanction the facility for his place so that it could spur development of the otherwise backward area which lacked any government project worth the name. Sources quoting the Speaker, Kirankumar Reddy said that as per the Central government's latest decision.
From Bangladesh Press
Goainghat tense over BSF intrusion
From The New Nation, Bangladesh
Internet Edition. October 21, 2010
Internet Edition. October 21, 2010
Staff Reporter
Speakers at a function yesterday said the construction of a road and a bridge inside Bangladesh territory at Goainghat upazila in Sylhet district by the Indian border security force (BSF) ignoring the protest of BDR is the direct infringement on the sovereignty of the country.
Sylhet Division Development Students' Action Council (SDDSAC) formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Wednesday protesting the BSF activities.
Ehsanul Haque Jasim, organization president of the council, was in the chair while Abu Naser Mohammad Rahmatullah, chairman of Swadinata Forum and Md Ilias Ali, vice chairman, NAP general secretary M. Gulam Mostafa Bhuiyan, SDDSAC leaders Shaheen Ahmed Khan, Md Abdul Basit and Nizam Uddin attended the programme.
Ehsanul Haque Jasim, in his presidential speech, said, "With the aim of establishing habitation in the territory of Bangladesh and occupying the resources, the BSF has started construction of the road and bridge to connect the Panichhula upazila of India with the Padua camp headquarters."
They are cutting trees and cleaning jungles to implement the project and occupying the area, he added.
The speakers at the programme demanded to stop construction of the road and the bridge to protect the country's sovereignty. They also urged the government to take immediate steps against the BSF move.
The BDR protested the activities of the Indian border forces and asked them to stop the construction work inside the country's territory.
A tense situation has been prevailing among the people of the bordering upazila and many of them have already started leaving their homes in fear.
Speakers at a function yesterday said the construction of a road and a bridge inside Bangladesh territory at Goainghat upazila in Sylhet district by the Indian border security force (BSF) ignoring the protest of BDR is the direct infringement on the sovereignty of the country.
Sylhet Division Development Students' Action Council (SDDSAC) formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Wednesday protesting the BSF activities.
Ehsanul Haque Jasim, organization president of the council, was in the chair while Abu Naser Mohammad Rahmatullah, chairman of Swadinata Forum and Md Ilias Ali, vice chairman, NAP general secretary M. Gulam Mostafa Bhuiyan, SDDSAC leaders Shaheen Ahmed Khan, Md Abdul Basit and Nizam Uddin attended the programme.
Ehsanul Haque Jasim, in his presidential speech, said, "With the aim of establishing habitation in the territory of Bangladesh and occupying the resources, the BSF has started construction of the road and bridge to connect the Panichhula upazila of India with the Padua camp headquarters."
They are cutting trees and cleaning jungles to implement the project and occupying the area, he added.
The speakers at the programme demanded to stop construction of the road and the bridge to protect the country's sovereignty. They also urged the government to take immediate steps against the BSF move.
The BDR protested the activities of the Indian border forces and asked them to stop the construction work inside the country's territory.
A tense situation has been prevailing among the people of the bordering upazila and many of them have already started leaving their homes in fear.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Appointment of Director NPA, Director NCRB and Special DG, CRPF
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Home Affairs
20-October-2010 13:26 IST
Appointment of Director NPA, Director NCRB and Special DG, CRPF
(i) Shri R.K.Mathur, IPS(CH:74) presently working as Director(DG), National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) as Director, SVP National Police Academy (NPA) in the scale of pay of Rs. 75,500-80,000 on lateral shift basis with effect from the date of his joining the post and till his superannuation on 30.09.2011 or until further orders, whichever event takes place earlier;
(ii) Shri N.K. Tripathi, IPS(MP-74), presently working as Special Director General, CRPF as Director, National Crime Record Bureau(NCRB) in the scale of pay of Rs. 75500-80000 on lateral shift basis with effect from the date of his joining the post and till his superannuation on 31.08.2011 or until further orders, whichever event takes place earlier; and
(iii) Shri Anirudh Uppal, IPS (HP:76) presently working as Addl.DG, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) as Special Director General, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) located at Jammu in the scale of pay of Rs. 75500-80-000 with effect from the date of his joining the post and till his superannuation on 30.9.2012 or until further orders, whichever event takes place earlier.
RS/KKA
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=66458
हादसे में बीएसएफ जवान की मौत
From 
बुधवार,20 अक्टूबर, 2010
मिनीबस की टक्कर से कनकघाटी के नजदीक हुआ हादसा
जयपुर। आमेर रोड पर कनकघाटी के नजदीक मंगलवार रात को मिनीबस की चपेट में आने से बीएसएफ के एक जवान की मौत हो गई। हादसे के बाद चालक मौके से बस को भगाकर ले गया। जिसे पुलिस ने बाद में पकड़ लिया।
पुलिस ने बताया कि हादसे का शिकार अनिल कुमार यादव (23) हरियाणा में थाना नारनौल गांव कुल्ताजपुर का रहने वाला था। वह बीएसएफ की 35 वीं बटालियन में सिपाही थी तथा आसाम के तुरा कस्बे में तैनात था। कुछ दिनों पहले वह छुट्टियां लेकर गांव आया था। मंगलवार को वह किसी काम के सिलसिले में गांव से मोटरसाइकिल पर जयपुर आ रहा था। रात करीब पौने 10 बजे कनकघाटी के नजदीक एक मिनीबस ने उसकी मोटरसाइकिल को टक्कर मार दी। इससे बस की चपेट में आने से अनिल गंभीर घायल हो गया। राहगीरों की सूचना पर पुलिस ने उसे एसएमएस अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया। वहां देर रात अनिल ने उपचार के दौरान दम तोड़ दिया।
देर रात घटना का पता लगने पर अनिल के परिजन भी गांव से यहां पहुंच गए। बुधवार को शव के पोस्टमार्टम के बाद उसे परिजनों को सौंप दिया। जानकारी के मुताबिक अनिल की पत्नी शर्मिला भी राजस्थान पुलिस में कांस्टेबल है। वह रिजर्व पुलिस लाईन में तैनात है।
Build-bund plea at border guard meet
| From telegraphindia OUR CORRESPONDENT | ||
Islampur, Oct. 18: The BSF has proposed the construction of embankments along the border here to its counterparts in Bangladesh after three rivers gobbled up many of the demarcation pillars. According to BSF sources, the Mahananda, Nagar and the Karatowa are eating away land in North Dinajpur. The problem is spread over around 200km area of the border and needs to be addressed immediately. At a sector-level coordination meeting at Tentulia in Bangladesh on October 14, BSF deputy-inspector general of Kishanganj M.F. Khan has suggested that embankments should be constructed to protect the land and also to avoid any confusion over the territory in future as many boundary pillars have been washed away by the rivers. The proposal was placed before Mohammed Khairujjaman and Salem Ahmed, the two sector commanders of the BDR from Rangpur and Dinajpur districts. “At the meeting, we have pointed out that it is imminent to construct the embankments, otherwise it will be tough to earmark the boundaries of the two countries in future,” Khan said. “We have also discussed how hundreds of acres of farmland and tea plantations are being consistently eroded by the rivers flowing along the borders.” Residents of the affected areas said they had lost acres of land to the erosion, with no move of the government interfering so far. “Every year, I am losing three to four kathas of my farmland to the Karatowa river. If the trend continues, I think I would be landless within the next five years,” said Mainul Alam, a cultivator at Goalgach village in Chopra block. “It is high time that the government does something or else, hundreds like me will face similar consequences.” Biren Das, a small tea grower who hails from Islampur and has his plantation on the borders at Maragati village of district, spoke on similar lines. “I have lost four acres of my plantation because of the continuous erosion of the Nagar,” he said. “I have approached the administration at different levels with the request to check the erosion but nothing has been done so far.” The BSF officers said they had informed the joint river commission formed with the representatives of both the countries about the erosion. “We expect a positive outcome soon as the issue is related to both India and Bangladesh,” an officer said. | ||
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New salary scheme with slew of benefits for paramilitary force
From DNA
The government has brought more than eight lakh personnel of paramilitary forces like CRPF, BSF and NSG under a new "charge-free" salary scheme which entitles them to have concessional loans and hassle-free withdrawal of salaries.
Under the new scheme, the spouses of these men and women in uniform will also be provided with a free 'add-on ATM card' which will enable them to withdraw money and carry out financial transactions in the absence of the earning member of the family, posted far away along the border or in the Naxal-hit areas of the country.
The country's largest banker -- State Bank of India -- recently launched a unique paramilitary salary package on the lines of a similar facility for the Armed forces -- army, navy and the air force.
The new scheme will entitle the paramilitary jawans to enjoy "charge-free" facilities like zero balance account, free ATM-cum-shopping card without an annual maintenance fee and freedom to draw their salaries from the nearest SBI branch or an ATM of any bank, when they are deployed away from their parent units.
"In central paramilitary and police forces, a jawan and officer are not posted at the parent unit or a battalion headquarter often. Under the new scheme, the troops can have free cheque books and ATM cards to draw their salaries at any place," a senior paramilitary officer said.
The scheme was inaugurated by Union home minister P Chidambaram on September 29 for forces like Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBPF),
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Border Security Force (BSF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the elite National Security Guard (NSG).
Police Force (CRPF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBPF),
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Border Security Force (BSF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the elite National Security Guard (NSG).
The other facilities that can be enjoyed by the troops include free multi-city cheques, free demand drafts, free internet banking, free transfer of money through Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and concessions in interest rates on home, car and education loans and discount on purchase of gold coins.
The headquarters of the paramilitary forces have also issued orders for conducting awareness camps on these new facilities for jawans and officers at various battalions and company headquarters.
"We want them (force personnel) to avail the benefits of the new service as soon as possible. Senior officials from the forces and experts from the banking sector will be conducting lectures for these facilities," the officer said.
General costumers have to pay a certain service charge for these facilities.
Zahid Farooq killing: CJM to hear BSF plea on Oct 20
From kashmir press service
Srinagar, Oct 19: Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar deferred for further hearing in plea by Border Security Forces, seeking stay in civil proceedings into the killing of a teenager—Zahid Farooq by its men in Nishat area in outskirts of Srinagar on February 05 last.
Counsel for family, Advocate Nazir Ahmad Ronga said that the CJM Srinagar, Yashpal Bourney recorded his arguments against the BSF plea today. “Among the other objections, we made it clear that was no question for trial by BSF court in this case for it falls beyond the purview of BSF Act because the accused were not in active duty at the time incident nor was there any protest or stone pelting as corroborated by police in its statement,” he said.
As the Public Prosecutor, Abdul Aziz Teli was absent on account of personal engagements, the court listed the case for further hearing on October 20.
On April 6, the BSF through Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Brig (Retd) R M Painuly, had moved an application before the CJM, seeking stay in the civil proceedings and transfer of case to the BSF court under section 80 of BSF Act of 1989.
In his arguments on an earlier trail, the Public Prosecutor had also made similar arguments to that of Ronga and had argued: “As per the notification of government, they are here on duty but on the fateful day, they were not on actual duty.” “Had they been on Border or involved in law and order, the claim would have sustained. But there was no law and order situation in the area on the day, the question for trial in BSF court does not arise at all,” The Public prosecutor had said.
BSF Commandant RK Birdi and his sub-ordinate Lakhwinder Kumar are accused in killing of Zahid Farooq in an unprovoked firing near teenager’s residence at Nishat in city outskirts on February 05 last.
In its 3-page chargesheet, the Special Investigation Team of police charged the BSF personnel under Section 302 of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC), an offence punished with death, or imprisonment for life and fine.
The duo has been also charged under Section 201 (destroying or tampering with the evidence) and Section 109 (abetment of offence).
http://www.kashmirpress.com/the-news/1-latest-news/3113-zahid-farooq-killing-cjm-to-hear-bsf-plea-on-oct-20
Srinagar, Oct 19: Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar deferred for further hearing in plea by Border Security Forces, seeking stay in civil proceedings into the killing of a teenager—Zahid Farooq by its men in Nishat area in outskirts of Srinagar on February 05 last.
Counsel for family, Advocate Nazir Ahmad Ronga said that the CJM Srinagar, Yashpal Bourney recorded his arguments against the BSF plea today. “Among the other objections, we made it clear that was no question for trial by BSF court in this case for it falls beyond the purview of BSF Act because the accused were not in active duty at the time incident nor was there any protest or stone pelting as corroborated by police in its statement,” he said.
As the Public Prosecutor, Abdul Aziz Teli was absent on account of personal engagements, the court listed the case for further hearing on October 20.
On April 6, the BSF through Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Brig (Retd) R M Painuly, had moved an application before the CJM, seeking stay in the civil proceedings and transfer of case to the BSF court under section 80 of BSF Act of 1989.
In his arguments on an earlier trail, the Public Prosecutor had also made similar arguments to that of Ronga and had argued: “As per the notification of government, they are here on duty but on the fateful day, they were not on actual duty.” “Had they been on Border or involved in law and order, the claim would have sustained. But there was no law and order situation in the area on the day, the question for trial in BSF court does not arise at all,” The Public prosecutor had said.
BSF Commandant RK Birdi and his sub-ordinate Lakhwinder Kumar are accused in killing of Zahid Farooq in an unprovoked firing near teenager’s residence at Nishat in city outskirts on February 05 last.
In its 3-page chargesheet, the Special Investigation Team of police charged the BSF personnel under Section 302 of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC), an offence punished with death, or imprisonment for life and fine.
The duo has been also charged under Section 201 (destroying or tampering with the evidence) and Section 109 (abetment of offence).
http://www.kashmirpress.com/the-news/1-latest-news/3113-zahid-farooq-killing-cjm-to-hear-bsf-plea-on-oct-20
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
State-level art fete in November
From
 Online edition of India's National Newspaper Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010 |
Correspondent
‘Samskritiki has been hosting the festival for the past 18 years'
It will feature workshops on art, craft besides art awareness sessions
BHUBANESWAR: Two city-based premier cultural institutions – Samskritiki and Orissa Modern Art Gallery – have come together to host a three-day State-level art festival at the district headquarters town of Keonjhar from November 5 to 7.
Festival coordinator Milan Kumar Mishra said Samskritiki had been hosting an annual art festival in the town for the past 18 years showcasing the works of young artists of the State. “The thrust has been on providing a platform for young talent besides enriching the cultural scenario of smaller towns.
While people staying at the State capital get exposure to all sorts of cultural activities, the inhabitants of smaller towns across the state have hardly any such exposure,” pointed out Mishra.
For the first time, Orissa Modern Art Gallery, Orissa's only institution of its kind, has been collaborating in hosting the show; he said and added that the exhibition of paintings, craft and sculptures apart, the festival shall feature workshops on art and craft besides art awareness sessions for the visitors.
Gallery director Tarakant Parida said the artists of the State who were interested in exhibiting their works in the festival may deposit their works at the gallery located at 132, Forest Park, Bhubaneswar. Further information can be obtained over phone to 0674-2595765, he said.
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