Assam Bangladesh Border

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said today that 138 people trying to enter India from Bangladesh have been detected in the last two months in Assam and Tripura and that the border states must stay vigilant to avoid such infiltration.

The Assam Police is on a high alert along the India-Bangladesh border to ensure that no person enters the state illegally in view of the unrest in the neighbouring country, a top officer said.

Braving rain, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday led a colourful roadshow in Silchar, the most important town of Assam's Barak Valley bordering Bangladesh, for BJP candidate Parimal Suklabaidya.

Polls for the 60-member assembly constituency will be held on February 27 and the votes will be counted on March 2.

Police say they carried out religious preaching, which is not allowed on tourist visa; but group leader says they were only visiting relatives

While investigating a kidnapping case, the Assam Police have stumbled upon a culvert in the Karimganj district -- which borders Bangladesh -- that might have been used as a secret route to sneak in and out of the country.

Thirteen Rohingya refugees, including six children, have been arrested from Assam's Karimganj district - which borders Bangladesh - police sources told NDTV on Thursday, adding they were arrested for trying to illegally cross the border.

At a times when the ongoing NRC updation process in Assam is in a crucial state and the state is witnessing protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, the Border Security Force (BSF) that guards the 262-km-long border with Bangladesh in Assam, has said illegal infiltration from Bangladesh is almost "negligible".

The Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday said there had been no proof of infiltration from Bangladesh during the NRC updation process in Assam.

Two months after a former army soldier was declared a foreigner and sent to a detention camp amid work on the National Register of Citizens list in Assam, a Border Security Force officer and his wife are likely to face similar action on the orders of a foreigners tribunal.

A 61-km stretch of a riverine border that India and Bangladesh shares on the Brahmaputra in lower Assam was essentially porous until now, allowing infiltrators and smugglers easy entry into the country. But that's about to change.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today inaugurated an advanced electronic surveillance system along the 61-km India-Bangladesh border in Dhubri district of Assam to tackle cross-border crimes and provide respite to BSF personnel from round-the-clock patrolling.

The Central government has decided to use a new technology to seal India's international borders with Bangladesh passing through Assam and West Bengal by putting in place a comprehensive integrated border management system, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in West Bengal's Falakata on Saturday.

The border police in Assam today deported 21 Bangladesh nationals who had been detained for illegally entering India. They were arrested for violating the Passport Act.

The first 'smart fence' pilot project to plug vulnerable gaps along India's borders has been rolled out in Assam on a riverine stretch with Bangladesh, the Border Security Force chief said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said today that 138 people trying to enter India from Bangladesh have been detected in the last two months in Assam and Tripura and that the border states must stay vigilant to avoid such infiltration.

The Assam Police is on a high alert along the India-Bangladesh border to ensure that no person enters the state illegally in view of the unrest in the neighbouring country, a top officer said.

Braving rain, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday led a colourful roadshow in Silchar, the most important town of Assam's Barak Valley bordering Bangladesh, for BJP candidate Parimal Suklabaidya.

Polls for the 60-member assembly constituency will be held on February 27 and the votes will be counted on March 2.

Police say they carried out religious preaching, which is not allowed on tourist visa; but group leader says they were only visiting relatives

While investigating a kidnapping case, the Assam Police have stumbled upon a culvert in the Karimganj district -- which borders Bangladesh -- that might have been used as a secret route to sneak in and out of the country.

Thirteen Rohingya refugees, including six children, have been arrested from Assam's Karimganj district - which borders Bangladesh - police sources told NDTV on Thursday, adding they were arrested for trying to illegally cross the border.

At a times when the ongoing NRC updation process in Assam is in a crucial state and the state is witnessing protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, the Border Security Force (BSF) that guards the 262-km-long border with Bangladesh in Assam, has said illegal infiltration from Bangladesh is almost "negligible".

The Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday said there had been no proof of infiltration from Bangladesh during the NRC updation process in Assam.

Two months after a former army soldier was declared a foreigner and sent to a detention camp amid work on the National Register of Citizens list in Assam, a Border Security Force officer and his wife are likely to face similar action on the orders of a foreigners tribunal.

A 61-km stretch of a riverine border that India and Bangladesh shares on the Brahmaputra in lower Assam was essentially porous until now, allowing infiltrators and smugglers easy entry into the country. But that's about to change.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today inaugurated an advanced electronic surveillance system along the 61-km India-Bangladesh border in Dhubri district of Assam to tackle cross-border crimes and provide respite to BSF personnel from round-the-clock patrolling.

The Central government has decided to use a new technology to seal India's international borders with Bangladesh passing through Assam and West Bengal by putting in place a comprehensive integrated border management system, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in West Bengal's Falakata on Saturday.

The border police in Assam today deported 21 Bangladesh nationals who had been detained for illegally entering India. They were arrested for violating the Passport Act.

The first 'smart fence' pilot project to plug vulnerable gaps along India's borders has been rolled out in Assam on a riverine stretch with Bangladesh, the Border Security Force chief said.