Assam Commandos

These commandos may look like from the National Security Guards (NSG) by their tactical move to tackle a hostage situation, but they are the fresh batch of Assam's Black Panthers - the state's very own commando battalions of police force.

Videos have emerged of how the army's Assam Rifles troops rescued Manipur Police commandos pinned down by insurgents with heavy gunfire in an ambush on a highway, in a dramatic first-hand view of the daring rescue.

Assam Police Recruitment 2023: Within the police department, there are openings for sub-inspector of police (unarmed branch) with 144 vacancies and sub-inspector (armed branch) in Assam Commando Battalions with 51 vacancies.

Amid escalating border tensions with Assam, Mizoram's boundary commission is set to hold its first key meeting today. The state government has also written to the centre alleging heavy deployment of commandos at the border by Assam.

Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta will no longer have the protection of the elite commandos of the National Security Guards (NSG), officials said. He has been downgraded to a security detail comprising commandos of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Mr Mahanta, a senior leader of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and an MLA, who h...

A special team of the Indian Navy's deep-sea divers have been called in from Visakhapatnam to Sivasagar district in Upper Assam after the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Indian Army had been roped in to help in the ongoing operation to rescue a family of five that went missing after their Ma...

When a picture of 25-year-old Shamsul Haq Mengnoo holding an AK-47 rifle went viral on social media in Kashmir on Sunday, shockwaves were felt all the way in Assam.

For the last four years, 26-year-old Bobby Baishya and her friends have been spending their mornings on martial art sessions. They are Veeranganas -- a 100-member all-women crack commando unit of the Assam police meant to provide safety to women in crowded urban areas.

Two children were allegedly killed in cross-fire between security forces from the Indian Army's para commandos and Assam Rifles and militants of the NSCN (K).

Seven suspected militants belonging to the NSCN-K were killed by the Army in an encounter in Nagaland along the India-Myanmar border on Wednesday. Two civilians were also killed in the gunbattle.

In an overgrown field outside Manipur's capital, Basanta Nameirakpam points to the spot where his son, Nobo, lies buried. The 27-year-old was killed in an encounter by a joint team of Manipur police commandos and Assam Rifles in April, 2009. His cousin, Gobind, was also shot dead that evening. Ordinarily the two men would have been cremated, but th...

A hideout of the NDFB(S) was today busted in a joint operation by commandos of the Assam police and army men in the jungles of lower Assam's Kokrajhar district.

These commandos may look like from the National Security Guards (NSG) by their tactical move to tackle a hostage situation, but they are the fresh batch of Assam's Black Panthers - the state's very own commando battalions of police force.

Videos have emerged of how the army's Assam Rifles troops rescued Manipur Police commandos pinned down by insurgents with heavy gunfire in an ambush on a highway, in a dramatic first-hand view of the daring rescue.

Assam Police Recruitment 2023: Within the police department, there are openings for sub-inspector of police (unarmed branch) with 144 vacancies and sub-inspector (armed branch) in Assam Commando Battalions with 51 vacancies.

Amid escalating border tensions with Assam, Mizoram's boundary commission is set to hold its first key meeting today. The state government has also written to the centre alleging heavy deployment of commandos at the border by Assam.

Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta will no longer have the protection of the elite commandos of the National Security Guards (NSG), officials said. He has been downgraded to a security detail comprising commandos of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Mr Mahanta, a senior leader of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and an MLA, who h...

A special team of the Indian Navy's deep-sea divers have been called in from Visakhapatnam to Sivasagar district in Upper Assam after the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Indian Army had been roped in to help in the ongoing operation to rescue a family of five that went missing after their Ma...

When a picture of 25-year-old Shamsul Haq Mengnoo holding an AK-47 rifle went viral on social media in Kashmir on Sunday, shockwaves were felt all the way in Assam.

For the last four years, 26-year-old Bobby Baishya and her friends have been spending their mornings on martial art sessions. They are Veeranganas -- a 100-member all-women crack commando unit of the Assam police meant to provide safety to women in crowded urban areas.

Two children were allegedly killed in cross-fire between security forces from the Indian Army's para commandos and Assam Rifles and militants of the NSCN (K).

Seven suspected militants belonging to the NSCN-K were killed by the Army in an encounter in Nagaland along the India-Myanmar border on Wednesday. Two civilians were also killed in the gunbattle.

In an overgrown field outside Manipur's capital, Basanta Nameirakpam points to the spot where his son, Nobo, lies buried. The 27-year-old was killed in an encounter by a joint team of Manipur police commandos and Assam Rifles in April, 2009. His cousin, Gobind, was also shot dead that evening. Ordinarily the two men would have been cremated, but th...

A hideout of the NDFB(S) was today busted in a joint operation by commandos of the Assam police and army men in the jungles of lower Assam's Kokrajhar district.