Students form human chain for fencing of Indo-Bangladesh border

September 16th, 2009 CHAK ALLAH BAKHASH - The prices of farming land have plunged following past week's rocket-shelling incident in the India-Pakistan border villages. Local farmers say that it was already quite tough to find buyers for the land situated beyond fencing and the latest rocket-shelling incident has caused the prices to drop further.

August 8th, 2009 MALDA - Security has been stepped up along the India-Bangladesh border ahead of Independence Day. "On the occasion of August 15, we are conducting a special operation.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Government if India has sanctioned fencing over 3436 kilometres along the Indo-Bangladesh border in phased projects. Up to March 2009, a total of 2650 km.

July 16th, 2009 SILIGURI - Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) have decided to join hands for better management of border issues and better security of the border population at the Indo-Bangladesh DG level talks that concluded on Tuesday (July 14) at Dhaka. M.L. Kumawat, Director General of the BSF on Wednesday informed reporters in Siliguri in West Bengal on Wednesday (July 15) said that he had handed over the draft joint border management plan to his Bangladesh counterpart during the talks.

July 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Fencing of about 1,800 kilometers along the Indo-Bangla border has been completed under Phase-II of the project, Border Security Force (BSF) issued statement informed here on Sunday.he BSF also says that infiltration and cross border movement of militancy along porous stretch of border in Meghalaya and Assam continues to raise concerns. The statement stated that BSF had planed to complete 2,579.22 kilometer of border fencing and 1,422.45 kilometer of road construction along the border under Phase-II at a cost of Rs 4,393.67 crore by 2010.

June 17th, 2009 JORHAT - Activists in Assam's Jorhat district have alleged that a madrassa in Titabor region is sheltering a number of illegal migrants, and called for a 12-hour shutdown against state government's inaction. Activists of Jatiya Yuba Chatra Parishad and some former Madrassa-e-Islamia workers expressed fear that the migrants might be involved in various illegal activities.

May 23rd, 2009 TRIPURA - Tension prevailed along the India-Bangladesh border on the outskirts of Akhwara region, in Tripura, over the construction of a barbed wire fencing by the Border Security Force (BSF). The villagers are concerned as the newly constructed barbed wire fence will block free access to the graveyard, which would now fall on the other side of the fence.

April 25th, 2009 AGARTALA - Indian security forces are fully equipped to deal with any armed infiltration bid from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) M.L. Kumawat Saturday said here Saturday.

April 23rd, 2009 AGARTALA - The gates on the barbed wire fence along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura would remain open till the balloting ends to enable all voters to exercise their franchise, an official said here Thursday. 'We have asked the Border Security Force (BSF) to open the gates on the border fence for the whole day to facilitate the voters to exercise their franchise,' said Dilip Acherjee, additional chief electoral officer.

April 2nd, 2009 AGARTALA - A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper and a civilian were injured in a bomb explosion near the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura Thursday, police here said. The police blamed separatist National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) for the explosion in Bhandarima, 185 km north of the Tripura capital, Agartala.

March 26th, 2009 KATHUA - Farmers who had lost their agricultural land to border fencing in Kashmir are happy with realignment of fencing border. Farmers of Kathua district have thanked government for fencing re-alignment.

March 20th, 2009 AGARTALA - The bloody mutiny of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in Dhaka last month has knocked off the Indo-Bangladesh border trade by 50 percent, traders here Thursday said. 'The BDR mutiny and reduction of the rate of the Indian rupee against the US dollar have largely affected the Indo-Bangla export-import business during the past few weeks,' said Habul Biswas, spokesman of the Indo-Bangla Desh Trading Organisation.

March 14th, 2009 AGARTALA - Night curfew has been imposed along the borders with Bangladesh in Assam and Tripura besides stepping up security in view of the general elections, officials said here Saturday. A home ministry official said vigil along the Bangladesh border has been tightened to check movement of militants and infiltration.

February 26th, 2009 AGARTALA - India put its eastern borders on high alert Wednesday after a mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) left many people dead and several injured, an official said. Senior officials of the Border Security Force (BSF) rushed to the frontier along Bangladesh, BSF spokesman A.K.

January 19th, 2009 GUWAHATI - India has decided to raise 29 battalions comprising 29,000 personnel of frontier guards to man the country's border with Pakistan and Bangladesh to check cross-border terrorism and infiltration of illegal migrants, officials Tuesday said. 'The central government has sanctioned 29 more Border Security Force (BSF) battalions and we hope to raise them soon and deploy them in the border areas.