Raipur, Nov 13 : Highway patrolling was intensified Friday in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, a day after armed Maoists set five trucks on fire on the national highway in Bijapur district.Patrolling has been stepped up in Bastar region - mainly on National Highway 221 in Dantewada district and National Highway 16 in Bijapur district - to instill faith among truckers fearing attacks by insurgents...
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Security along the Tamil Nadu coast, particularly in Rameswaram, has been strengthened in view of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks’ anniversary that falls on Thursday.The focus areas of the operation are landing centres from Rameswaram to Nagapattinam and along fringe areas of International Maritime Boundary Line between India and Sri Lanka.on Sunday that vigil had been maintained in Palk Bay, Gulf...
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A British soldier has been shot dead in Afghanistan while on foot patrol in Helmand Province, the Ministry of Defence said.The soldier was from the 7th Battalion The Rifles, attached to the 3rd Battalion The Rifles Battle Group.The MoD said the soldier was killed as a result of small arms fire while on patrol near Sangin.Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, spokesman for Task Force Helmand, said: "It...
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Highway patrolling was intensified Friday in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, a day after armed Maoists set five trucks on fire on the national highway in Bijapur district.Patrolling has been stepped up in Bastar region - mainly on National Highway 221 in Dantewada district and National Highway 16 in Bijapur district - to instill faith among truckers fearing attacks by insurgents in the wake of...
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Armed police patrols have been introduced in London without authorisation, a police watchdog said.Armed officers from the CO19 unit have begun pilot patrols in Tottenham - where three Turkish men died in a drug war - as well as Brixton and Haringey.Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) member Jenny Jones said it did not authorise the "change in tactics".A Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) spokesman said...
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DALLAS (AP) — Former U.S. Border Patrol chief Gustavo De La Vina, who worked to tighten the flow of illegal immigrants into the country, has died at the age of 70.De La Vina died Monday in the Balkan nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he worked as a private adviser, said Steve Cribby, spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The Edinburg, Texas, native joined the Border Patrol in 1970...
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spurt in incidents of piracy, Indian Navy has deployed two warships off the coast of Seychelles and Mauritius to carry out patrols to counter threat from Somali pirates there."INS Shardul, an amphibious warship and Indian Coast Guard ship Varuna, an offshore patrol vessel, had gone to Seychelles and Mauritius for training purposes, but we have asked the ships to remain in the area for a longer duration...
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In addition to the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Navy will carry out anti-piracy patrols off the Indian Ocean nations of Seychelles and Mauritius. On Monday, the Indian Navy confirmed that it had "deployed INS Savitri, an Offshore Patrol Vessel with a Chetak helicopter and marine commandos, for the surveillance of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Seychelles and Mauritius from the end of November...
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Metropolitan Police used the "wrong language" to describe armed patrols aimed at tackling gun crime in London, Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson says.A TV interview led to reports that the pilot scheme would lead to routine armed patrols, he told a Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) meeting.People in Lambeth, Brixton and Haringey where the pilot is being tested, said they felt they were being demonised.The...
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plan to establish more BOPs along the Sino-Indian border will allow troops of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police to undertake Short Range Patrols (SRP).This will reduce the inter-BOP distance, which exceeds more than 50-kilometres, and the present Long Range Patrols (LRP) can be made effective by having more SRPs, official sources said.Currently the ITBP, which guards the 3,500-km-long border, has more...
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