External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday emphasised that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government will never compromise when it comes to national security.
This development places the two military forces in close proximity amid heightened tensions surrounding the conflict in Ukraine and the junta's insistence on the withdrawal of US forces from the country.
The United States has accused Russia of the use of the chemical weapon chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops in the ongoing conflict, and has ordered the sanctioning of over 280 individuals and entities to impose additional costs on Russia for its foreign aggression.
Acting on specific information, troops of the 193 Batallion of BSF Meghalaya, rescued 28 cattle loaded into two vehicles en route to the international border, meant to be smuggled to Bangladesh.
According to the official release, the vigilant BSF troops while carrying out a routine search operation on April 29, 2024, at about 8.00 am, observed a small drone along with a packet in a farming field in the border area of district Ferozepur.
Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh appreciated the Indian Army for deploying troops in the affected area, following the firing incident in Udhampur, in which one Village Defence Guard member was killed.
In a joint operation, troops of Border Security Forces (BSF) and Punjab police recovered a drone adjacent to village Rajoke in Punjab's Tarn Taran District, officials said on Sunday.
According to an official BSF release, "Based on information on April 25, 2024, BSF intelligence set up about the presence of a drone in the border area of Tarn Taran district, a joint search operation by BSF troops with Punjab Police was conducted in the suspected area."
During one of the strikes, troops identified two terrorists attempting to launch rockets toward Israeli territory. In response, fighter jets struck the terrorists and destroyed the launch pit, as well as the weapons storage facility in which one of the terrorists was located following the la