Defence Minister Rajnath Singh highlighted the initiatives undertaken by the central government to ensure infrastructure and socio-economic development in border villages while addressing the Border Area Development Conclave in Delhi on Wednesday.
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In order to create a sense of security among locals at the India-Bangladesh border, the Border Security Force (BSF) held a coordination meeting in border villages on Thursday.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday reviewed the implementation of the 'Vibrant Villages Programme' at a high-level meeting here in the national capital and stressed the need to provide employment opportunities to local residents as well as increase connectivity to prevent migration fr
:Indian Army engineers from Trishakti Corps constructed a 150-foot suspension bridge in North Sikkim to re-connect the border villages that got cut off due to continued heavy rains, giving respite to the locales living in those locations, the army said on Sunday.
Coming down heavily on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused it of having ignored development work in border villages due to apprehension of the enemy using the infrastructure in case of a clash and said BJP government considers these villages as "first villages".
Personnel from the Special Task Force of the Punjab Police and Border Security Force have busted a hawala racket and apprehended two people with one packet of heroin from a border village in Amritsar district.
The statement said a well-coordinated effort by the BSF and Punjab Police, aided by reliable information, successfully thwarted yet another attempt by a narco-syndicate to smuggle a substantial amount of narcotics into India from across the border.
Facing his third Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the previous Congress-led UPA regime on Saturday for allegedly "neglecting" border villages in the northeastern states.
A China-manufactured drone and a huge quantity of drugs were intercepted by the Border Security Force (BSF) and Punjab Police near border villages along the international border, Khalsa Vox reported.