BSF personnel should be given best training

FROM TRENDING INDIA Thursday, May 26, 2011
http://www.trendingindia.com/2011/05/bsf-personnel-should-be-given-best.html

Home Minister P Chidambaram said the country owes the best training, equipments and working conditionsto the paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) as they operate in a hostile environment.

BSF to deploy women troopers along IB in J and K

FROM NEW KERALA

Jammu, May 26: In a bid to keep check on smuggling of arms and narcotics from across the fence, the Border Security Force may soon deploy a brigade of women troopers along Indo-Pak international border in Jammu region.

"The BSF is planning to deploy its women troopers along the border with Pakistan to check the smuggling of arms and narcotics," official sources here told UNI.

How to file tax returns online!

From MSN
by BankBazaar.com Desk on 24, May, 2011 

Filing incoming tax returns is not a laborious ordeal anymore. E-filing or filing tax returns online has made the process a whole lot simpler. E-filing of tax returns acts as one of the options for the direct tax payers in India. There are three different ways of filing returns online:

1.       File returns using a digital signature. By this option there is no need for a paper return to be submitted.

2.       File without using the digital signature. By this option the ITR-V form has to be filled. This form is a one-page receipt but also serves as a verification form.

3.       Take help from an E-filing intermediary who makes the filing returns and filling the ITR-V form a whole lot easier.

Finance TIPs for Borderman:10 ways to use your credit card right!

From MSN

by BankBazaar.com Desk on 24, May, 2011 

Never exceeding 40% of your credit limit has a very beneficial effect on your credit score. This shows your credit limit is high but you have not burnt it up and have plenty in reserve. This logic helps you attain a much higher credit score. This is the same logic that suggests you should not close any credit card accounts, as they collectively will provide you a high credit limit, which is good for the score.

Your credit card can be the single most important factor in improving and increasing your credit score. On the other hand it can also plummet your score to dark depths if you are not careful. Think smart and use your credit cards to your advantage. Here is some pointers on what to do and what not to do in order to achieve this reality.

Govt nod to fix pay of 6 central police officers

From The Times Of India

Manohar Lal, May 23, 2011, 11.11pm IST

RANCHI: It took almost two years for the state government to give its nod to pay fixation of six officers of the central paramilitary force, who were sent here on deputation in 2009.

Last week, after nearly 19 months, the government had fixed the pay of six officers on three years deputation for carrying out an anti-Naxalite operation. With half the period of deputation over, six officers three each from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force (BSF) were posted on deputation in October 2009, in six Naxalite-hit districts of Ranchi, Khunti, Palamu, Gumla, Giridih and West Singhbhum.

Art works of Border Security Force personnel to be sold

From News One

New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) Paintings and sculptures made by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel will be put up on display and for sale at the Lalit Kala Academy here May 25-29, an official said Monday.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram is expected to inaugurate the event called BSF Kala Mela (art fair).

BSF Director General Raman Srivastava said: ‘This is the first of its kind of mela organised by any paramilitary.’

‘Through this, we want to encourage our people, who despite all the odds have pursued their passion and love for art,’ Srivastava said.

The display will feature 360 works including oil paintings, thread paintings, thread craft, enamel paintings, soapstone carvings, clay paintings and pencil arts.

The art works have been made by high ranking officials, head constables, constables, cooks and widows of BSF personnel.

Srivastava said that 60 percent of the proceeds from the sales would be given to the artists, while the rest would be deposited in a welfare fund.

http://www.inewsone.com/2011/05/23/art-works-of-border-security-force-personnel-to-be-sold/52496

BSF calls 'Dhruv' choppers useless

From Indian Express

 May 23 2011

The Border Security Force (BSF) has written to the Government for replacing indigenous 'Dhruv' helicopters saying they did not fulfil its operational requirement.

"The Advanced Light Helicopters- Dhruv-- are not helpful in our operations like casualty evacuation and troop reinforcements. They are useless for us. Most of the times these helicopters are under servicing and there are issues about its capabilities to fly beyond a certain height," BSF sources said.

"We have informed the Home Ministry in this regard.

BSF on continuous alert

From Yahoo.Com

New Delhi, May 23 (PTI) The BSF today said the attack by heavily armed Taliban militants in

Pakistan navy''s Mehran airbase in Karachi does not not directly affect the security situation on the Indian borders and but the force is on "continuous alert" regardless of such incidents.

"These things do not really affect the border as such. We have to be alert. Anything may happen anytime. We are just taking our precautions. It is a continuous alert..24X7 alert. (It is) an operational alert.

BSF to use 'non-lethal' weapons along Indo-Bangla border

From ZeeNews
Sunday, May 22, 2011
New Delhi: The Border Security Force, guarding the porous Indo-Bangladesh border, has armed its troops with "non-lethal" weapons to reduce causalities and fatal injuries to Bangladeshi nationals attempting to cross over into this country.

The force, which guards more than 4,000 kilometres of the border, has provided its personnel with pump-action guns in addition to their regular weapons -- INSAS rifles and SLRs.

BSF averts tragedy, defuses anti-tank mine along border

From Yahoo.Com

Jammu, May 22 

(PTI) A major tragedy was averted when BSF troops detected and defused an anti-tank mine along Indo-Pak border in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

During some construction work of a defence structure near the international border in Malu Chak belt, alert BSF troops detected a big anti-tank mine in dugout earth and diffused it, officials said today.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/bsf-averts-tragedy-defuses-anti-tank-mine-along-104300778.html

BSF foils cattle smuggling bid in Dhubri dist, catches two

From The Times Of India

May 22, 2011

GUWAHATI: BSF troops seized 77 cattleheads in Dhubri district and caught two persons while they were trying to smuggle out the animals to Bangladesh on Saturday. BSF officials said a special operation team of the force from its Bansichar border out-post seized the cattle worth Rs 3,56,000. The two were handed over to Dhubri police.