Kolkata/Krishnanagar, May 14: Sudden increase in smuggling of human hair to Bangladesh through the porous points of Indo-Bangla border under the Krishnagar sector amid the Covid situation has caused serious concern among the BSF authorities. During the past few months, the South Bengal Frontier of the BSF has recovered around…
Krishnanagar, March 11: In a friendly gesture the BSF authorities handed over two minor Bangladeshi boys to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), as they were caught after allegedly sneaking into the Indian Territory apparently to collect wheat bran. BSF authorities said that the two boys, both aged 12, and residents of…
Kolkata, Aug. 22: A patrolling team of the Border Security Force attached to 141 battalion seized 600 kg Hilsa fish, worth around Rs.9.6 lakhs, from smugglers at Murshidabad’s riverine border on Saturday evening. BSF sources said that the smugglers were trying to push the consignment of the prized fish into…
Krishnagar, Aug. 2: Border Security Force authorities have expressed serious concern over the increasing trend of migrant workers who lost their jobs due to lockdown are in turn getting involved with the smuggling rackets in the districts located along the Indo-Bangladesh border. Since April the BSF authorities in the South…
Gede, July 20: A patrolling team of BSF has seized goods worth Rs.46.5 lakhs from a rail wagon in Nadia’s Gede while being smuggled to Bangladesh through a goods train on Sunday. The goods were noticed by the BSF team in the wagon whose door seal was found tampered barely…
Hogolberia (Nadia): Prosenjit Biswas, a BSF constable from Nadia’s Hogolberia, posted in Sundarbani area under Rajouri district close to Indo-Pakistan border died in unprovoked firing by Pakistani forces on Thursday evening. Prosenjit had earlier in the afternoon called his wife Sumana and apprised her that he would come home to…
Gede, Jan. 22: A 35 year Bangladeshi woman passenger was allegedly molested by a Border Security Force jawan at gun point on board in Dhaka bound Maitree Express on Monday morning. Government Railway Police (GRP) authorities have started a case against the accused BSF jawan, attached to the 99-Battalion for…
The body of the slain BSF head constable Radhapada Hazra brought back to his home in Nadia’s Nazirpur during the wee hours of Friday morning. The last rites were performed in his native village in Rejinagar.
Nazirpur, Jan. 4: A Border Security Force jawan from Nadia’s Nazirpur, who was working as a head constable with the 173-Battalion deployed in the Chak Dulma post of Samba district in J&K was killed in a Pakistani sniper attack on Wednesday afternoon. The demised jawan, Radhapada Hazra, was martyred on…
Krishnanagar, Dec. 8: The farmers live close to Indo-Bangladesh border areas in Nadia and Murshidabad district who were advised to cultivate mustard by state government as an alternative to wheat, are encountered with serious objections from the Border Security Force. The state government in August declared ‘wheat holiday’ in these two…