Rajnath Singh to operationalise SSB intelligence wing along Bhutan, Nepal border on Monday
7 years, 6 months ago

Rajnath Singh to operationalise SSB intelligence wing along Bhutan, Nepal border on Monday

Firstpost  

Rajnath Singh will operationalise the Sashastra Seema Bal’s first ever intelligence wing on Monday New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will operationalise the Sashastra Seema Bal’s first ever intelligence wing on Monday, a home ministry official said. The paramilitary force guards India’s borders with Bhutan and Nepal, which are often used by criminals and Kashmiri militants returning from Pakistan. Due to the visa-free regime India has with Nepal and Bhutan, there is a trans-border movement of criminals and anti-national elements which pose a major challenge, the home ministry official said. This was essential as the SSB’s operations are based on intelligence to prevent criminals and smugglers from taking advantage of the friendly borders with Nepal and Bhutan, the official said.

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SSB played key role in securing borders and combating Naxalism: Amit Shah
3 months, 1 week ago

SSB played key role in securing borders and combating Naxalism: Amit Shah

New Indian Express  

SILIGURI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday lauded the Sashastra Seema Bal for its pivotal role in securing the country's borders with friendly nations such as Nepal and Bhutan and its contribution to combating Naxalism in Bihar and Jharkhand. Addressing the 61st Raising Day celebrations of the SSB in West Bengal's Siliguri, Shah said, "The Sashastra Seema Bal has …

India's border with Myanmar to be fenced to restrict ‘infiltrators’: Amit Shah
1 year, 2 months ago

India's border with Myanmar to be fenced to restrict ‘infiltrators’: Amit Shah

Hindustan Times  

Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that will fence its border with Myanmar to protect from infiltrators like it has barricaded the border along Bangladesh, news agency PTI reported. Union Home Minister Amit Shah speaks during the 60th Raising Day ceremony of Sashastra Seema Bal, in Tezpur. Earlier in September last year, Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh …

India-Nepal border forces' talks to begin in Delhi tomorrow
1 year, 4 months ago

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

The Hindu  

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 director general Rashmi Shukla and the …

India, Nepal to conduct joint survey to remove farms in 'no man's land along border on October 26
1 year, 5 months ago

India, Nepal to conduct joint survey to remove farms in 'no man's land along border on October 26

India TV News  

The administration of India and Nepal will start a joint survey of the no man's land on the Indo-Nepal border in Uttarakhand tomorrow. Drugs, human trafficking issues along Indo-Nepal border The deputy inspector general of the SSB said that apart from smuggling of wild animals’ body parts and drugs, we are also giving priority to preventing human trafficking, and we …

Seema Haider case: SSB suspends inspector, head constable over 'dereliction of duty' at India-Nepal border
1 year, 7 months ago

Seema Haider case: SSB suspends inspector, head constable over 'dereliction of duty' at India-Nepal border

India TV News  

Seema Haider case: In the latest development in the Seema Haider case, where the Pakistani woman crossed the border via Nepal to meet her Indian boyfriend, an inspector and a head constable have been suspended on charges of alleged dereliction of duty. Sashstra Seema Bal, which is mandated to guard the India-Nepal border, on August 2 suspended an inspector and …

Part 5: SSB — India's Watchful Protectors at The Nepal And Bhutan Borders - News18
2 years, 11 months ago

Part 5: SSB — India's Watchful Protectors at The Nepal And Bhutan Borders - News18

News 18  

After the Chinese aggression in 1962, the government of India felt the need for a force that could mingle with civilians but work as an intelligence-gathering machine. After the Kargil war, the SSB was declared a border guarding force under the ministry of home affairs and renamed Sashastra Seema Bal on December 15, 2003. With the change in role, the …

ISI-funded mosques, madarsas on India-Nepal border raise serious security concerns
3 years, 1 month ago

ISI-funded mosques, madarsas on India-Nepal border raise serious security concerns

India TV News  

Highlights Rising numbers of ISI-funded mosques, madarsas on India-Nepal border raise serious security concerns These religious setups have mushroomed within 10 km from Nepal border and also across border This leads to demographic change in some parts of border areas in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh & West Bengal The rising number of mosques and madarsas in the last three years along …

Two Chinese nationals held at Indo-Nepal border in Darjeeling
3 years, 11 months ago

Two Chinese nationals held at Indo-Nepal border in Darjeeling

Hindustan Times  

Two Chinese nationals were apprehended by the Sashastra Seema Bal on Friday, when they were trying to illegally enter West Bengal by crossing the Indo-Nepal border in Darjeeling district. A patrol team at the Baramaniramjote border post area spotted them. A patrol team at the Baramaniramjote border post area spotted the two Chinese nationals when they were trying to illegally …

Indo-Bangladesh border: Rajnath Singh inaugurates smart fencing project in Assam
6 years ago

Indo-Bangladesh border: Rajnath Singh inaugurates smart fencing project in Assam

Deccan Chronicle  

Dhubri: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday inaugurated the BOLD-QIT under Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System on Indo-Bangladesh border in Dhubri district of Assam. While addressing the media, Singh said, “Earlier in the month of September 2018, two pilot projects of “smart” border fencing built under the CIBMS programme in Jammu were operationalised. Over a period of time, the …

Rajnath Singh to visit China-Indian border areas in Uttarakhand, interact with ITBP personnels
7 years, 6 months ago

Rajnath Singh to visit China-Indian border areas in Uttarakhand, interact with ITBP personnels

Firstpost  

Home minister Rajnath Singh will visit the China-Indian border area in Uttarakhand this week. New Delhi: Home minister Rajnath Singh will visit the China-Indian border area in Uttarakhand this week. Singh will also visit ITBP border outposts at Rimkhim, Mana and Auli during the four-day trip beginning 28 September, a home ministry official said. The home minister is expected to …

SSB gets intelligence wing along Nepal, Bhutan border to check 'anti-Indian' forces
7 years, 8 months ago

SSB gets intelligence wing along Nepal, Bhutan border to check 'anti-Indian' forces

Firstpost  

SSB mans the 1,751-km long India-Nepal and the 699-km long Indo-Bhutan borders. It has sanctioned its first ever intelligence wing to check activities of “anti-India and other inimical forces” New Delhi: The SSB, that guards open borders with Nepal and Bhutan, has been sanctioned its first ever intelligence wing with 650 field and staff agents to check the activities of …

Situation at border tense; Nepalese shouting anti-India slogans, pelting stones: SSB
8 years ago

Situation at border tense; Nepalese shouting anti-India slogans, pelting stones: SSB

India TV News  

The situation along the Indo-Nepal border in Lakhimpur Kheri is still "tense" and Nepalese people are shouting anti-India slogans, the SSB today said as it denied reports of firing by its men leading to the death of a Nepalese citizen on the other side. The SSB said the clashes were first triggered on Wednesday when some "Nepalese people gathered near …

Fresh row breaks out as Nepal detains 13 Indian border guards
9 years, 3 months ago

Fresh row breaks out as Nepal detains 13 Indian border guards

The Hindu  

India-Nepal ties hit another flashpoint on Sunday after 13 personnel of the Sashastra Seema Bal were detained by the Nepal Armed Police Force in Jhapa. While India contended that only two of the personnel, who were unarmed, had inadvertently crossed the border while chasing ‘smugglers’, and 11 had followed to negotiate their release, Nepali officials accused them of carrying weapons …

Nepal 'shifting' blame for its atrocities to SSB: India
9 years, 4 months ago

Nepal 'shifting' blame for its atrocities to SSB: India

India TV News  

New Delhi: India today hit out at Nepal for "shifting" blame of atrocities inside its "volatile" Sunsari district to Sashastra Seema Bal after Kathmandu alleged that the Indian force shot four Nepalese on charges of smuggling chemical fertilisers. The sharp reaction came after Nepalese officials alleged that the men -residents of the border area in Sunsari district -were shot by …

Nepalese cops cross border to take shelter in SSB posts during protests
9 years, 6 months ago

Nepalese cops cross border to take shelter in SSB posts during protests

India TV News  

Nepalese cops cross border to take shelter in SSB posts during protests New Delhi: In an unprecedented incident, over three dozen armed Nepalese police personnel crossed the border and took shelter in frontier posts of Sashastra Seema Bal when Nepal witnessed sporadic incidents of violence and New Delhi: In an unprecedented incident, over three dozen armed Nepalese police personnel crossed …

Sashastra Seema Bal has deployed a 2,900-strong contingent equipped with medical aid and food to help Indians-India TV News
9 years, 11 months ago

Sashastra Seema Bal has deployed a 2,900-strong contingent equipped with medical aid and food to help Indians-India TV News

India TV News  

NEW DELHI: The Sashastra Seema Bal has deployed a 2,900-strong contingent equipped with medical aid and food to help Indians returning from earthquake-hit Nepal and the affected locals. "All battalions and their commanders have been asked to maintain alert in case the force is asked for any immediate help in the neighbouring country or at locations within India in states …

Ahead of Barack Obama visit, security beefed up along Indo-Nepal border
10 years, 2 months ago

Ahead of Barack Obama visit, security beefed up along Indo-Nepal border

India TV News  

New Delhi: Sashastra Seema Bal has launched search operations along the Indo-Nepal border to check any possibilities of infiltration bid by unwanted elements, ahead of US President Barack Obama's three-day visit to India beginning Sunday. "The security cover on the Indo-Nepal border has been strengthened in view of Obama visit, under which besides keeping a strict eye on the people …

Tripura CM wants tight vigil along India-Bangladesh border
10 years, 2 months ago

Tripura CM wants tight vigil along India-Bangladesh border

India TV News  

Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has asked the Border Security Force to beef up its vigil along the India-Bangladesh border in tandem with other paramilitary and state security forces. "BSF, CRPF and Tripura State Rifles must jointly operate along the borders with Bangladesh to curb the terrorism and trans-border movement of militants," an official said quoting the chief minister. …

Ahead of SAARC, India intensifies checking along Nepal border
10 years, 4 months ago

Ahead of SAARC, India intensifies checking along Nepal border

Firstpost  

Ahead of the 18th SAARC meeting in Nepal next week, Shashastra Seema Bal will undertake extensive screening in a bid to check the entry of anti-national elements from across the border to Uttar Pradesh on porous Indo-Nepal border. Maharajganj: Ahead of the 18th SAARC meeting in Nepal next week, Shashastra Seema Bal will undertake extensive screening in a bid to …

SSB intensifies checking on Indo-Nepal border, ahead of SAARC
10 years, 4 months ago

SSB intensifies checking on Indo-Nepal border, ahead of SAARC

India TV News  

Maharajganj: Ahead of the 18th SAARC meeting in Nepal next week, Shashastra Seema Bal will undertake extensive screening in a bid to check the entry of anti-national elements from across the border to Uttar Pradesh on porous Indo-Nepal border. The SSB would also be identifying religious places located on the Indo-Nepal border which may have been used by the Pakistani …

India mulling creating helipads along Bhutan border
10 years, 4 months ago

India mulling creating helipads along Bhutan border

India TV News  

New Delhi: India is mulling creating helipads along the open 699 km-long border with Bhutan to ease travel to difficult locations in the region and provide air support facilities for border guarding troops deployed there. Border guarding force Sashastra Seema Bal is posted along this frontier. Air support will help in easy transportation of our troops to their posts and …

Slow progress of check posts along Nepal border worries India
13 years, 8 months ago

Slow progress of check posts along Nepal border worries India

Hindustan Times  

Less than 15 months after work started on the integrated check post at Raxaul in Bihar on the Indo-Nepal border, New Delhi is worried about slow progress of work on the Nepal side. HT Image Work gap between Raxaul and Birganj in Nepal due to land acquisition and water management related problems has already delayed the project and is expected …

Nepal at a crossroads
20 years, 6 months ago

Nepal at a crossroads

The Hindu  

The Maoists lift their week-long blockade of Kathmandu, but the peace process makes little headway as the two main players in Nepal politics, the Palace and the rebels, have not agreed to talk. These include the Maoists' blockade of the valley, reports about an Indian offer of `bread bombing' of the Nepal capital, and the Royal Nepalese Army's action of …

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