From Bangladesh Press

Goainghat tense over BSF intrusion

From The New Nation, Bangladesh
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.

http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/10/21/news0947.htm

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

The competent authority has approved the following appointments:

(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।

http://www.bhaskar.com/article/RAJ-JAI-c-10-1200328-1474972.html

Build-bund plea at border guard meet

From telegraphindia OUR CORRESPONDENT

The Nagar river at Moragoti village . (Mehedi Hedaytullah) 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.

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).

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.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_new-salary-scheme-with-slew-of-benefits-for-paramilitary-force_1447988

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

State-level art fete in November

From

Online edition of India's National Newspaper Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010

Correspondent

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‘Samskritiki has been hosting the festival for the past 18 years'

It will feature workshops on art, craft besides art awareness sessions

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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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India-Bangladesh come together on Vijaya Dashami

From YahooNews

Mon, Oct 18

Kaveri Kumar Taki (WB), Oct 18 (PTI) The Indo-Bangladesh border disappeared as thousands of people from both countries in a spirit of bonhomie shared their culture on the Ichamati river in hundreds of boats, near here, on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami. The BSF and Bangladesh Rifles personnel, who guard the international borders in the river on speed boats, allow people from both sides to come together on its waters without passports and witness immersion of Goddess Durga every year.

Touching down on each other lands at Taki in North 24 Parganas district in India and Sripur in Satkhira district in Bangladesh is also allowed, though for a few minutes only, a visiting PTI correspondent witnessed. Thousands of people carrying their countries'' flags threw candies, toffees, fruits and even coins to one another amidst the rolling of the ''dhaks'' (drum) and chugging of motor-boats.

The boats from Bangladesh, carrying the deep green and red flag of the country were almost always more crowded than those from India and the number of women were only a few. Popular music revelled thousands of people lining up along the river bank on both sides.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20101018/1416/tnl-india-bangladesh-come-together-on-vi_1.html

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Chidambaram to visit Husainiwala on October 22

From The Indian Express

October 19,2010

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram will visit Husainiwala on October 22 to lay the foundation stone of Husainiwala check post and a new visitors’ gallery.

A meeting was held on Monday to take stock of the arrangements. Ferozepur Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishore Yadav said all arrangements were complete and officers of the district administration would coordinating with Border Security Force (BSF) officials to make the programme a success.

Senior Superintendent of Police Kestub Sharma, Deputy Inspector General, Sector Headquarter, BSF, Rajesh Gupta and other senior officers were present at the meeting.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/chidambaram-to-visit-husainiwala-on-october-22/699242/

Jawans escapes attack

From The Times of India
Around a dozen Border Security Force (BSF) jawans narrowly escaped safe and sound in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists in Malkangiri district on early Monday. Police said all the jawans are safe and unhurt by the landmine explosion. According to police a company of BSF is campaigning at Sikpai for the anti-Naxalite operations in the area and the Red rebels had planted the landmine targeting the security forces. The explosion took place at a distance of about 400 meters from the BSF camp.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/speednewsshow/6769197.cms

BSF release Bangladeshi teenagers

From BDNews.24
Kushtia, Oct 18 (bdnews24.com) — The Indian Border Security Force have released the five Bangladeshi teenagers, 11 hours after they were taken away from Daulatpur in Kushtia. 

Locals said Udaynagar BSF personnel took the teenagers around 6:30 am on Monday while they were cutting grasses near pillar – 153 along Daulatpur border. They were released around 5:30 pm after a second flag meeting between the BSF and BDR officials. 

The teenagers 'Faruk', 'Tareq', 'Ghetu', 'Faruk (2)' and 'Sumon', were residents of Bhangapara village of Ramkrishnapur Union under Daulatpur. Their age ranges between 12 and 17. 

Ramkrishnapur Union Parishad chairman Kudrat-e-Khuda said tension was prevailing in the area. 

Earlier this year, BSF members took away several other children from the border area of Thakurgaon district and later released them. 

BD Press:BSF take away 5 Bangladeshis

From BDNews24 Kushtia, Oct 18 (bdnews24.com) — Members of the Indian Border Security Force have taken five Bangladeshi teenagers away from Daulatpur of Kushtia, a Bangladesh Rifles official says. The teenagers are 'Faruk', 'Tareq', 'Ghetu', 'Faruk (2)' and 'Sumon'. They are residents of Bhangapara village of Ramkrishnapur Union under Daulatpur, BDR commander of Pragpur, Julfiker Ali told bdnews24.com on Monday. Ali said, "Even after a flag meeting with the BSF to settle the issue, they did not release the teenagers." Locals said Udaynagar BSF personnel took the teenagers around 6:30 am while they were cutting grasses near pillar – 153 along Daulatpur border. Ramkrishnapur Union Parishad chairman Kudrat-e-Khuda said tension was prevailing in the area.  http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=176464&cid=2