Border Security Force (BSF) Director General Nitin Agrawal started his visit to the Punjab frontier on Monday to review the security situation along the India-Pakistan International Border (IB) in the state.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint operation was launched by BSF and Punjab police in the early hours of Sunday on the outskirts of village Machiwara in Ferozepur district.
The Border Security Force (BSF), in a joint operation with Punjab Police, recovered three packets of a narcotics substance weighing around 3 kilograms from the outskirts of Machiwara Village in Ferozepur district of Punjab on Sunday morning, according to an official statement.
The heightened security measures are also being implemented as a precautionary step to prevent any untoward incidents or threats during this significant national event.
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the key infrastructure projects along the Indo-Pakistan border in Gujarat's Kutch, said an official statement on Saturday.
The Border Security Force (BSF) has foiled a major bid by terrorists to smuggle weapons from Bangladesh along the International Border and seized a big cache of arms and ammunition in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, the officials said on Friday.
Security has been scaled up across Udhampur district in view of the Independence Day celebrations on August 15, with security forces patrolling and manning the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police, in collaboration with security forces, apprehended three terrorist associates linked to the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the Budgam district.