India Bangladesh Border Fence

To prevent the smuggling of cattle and narcotics, the BSF will now have a second line of deterrence -- a thick hedge of more than 60,000 medicinal plants and 40 bee boxes -- along a three-kilometer fenced stretch of the India-Bangladesh border.

"These dogs are never brought into contact with other dogs. And breeding is performed under the supervision of a veterinary doctor," said an officer

Thirty one Rohingya Muslims are stuck in no-man's land, holed up behind the barbed wire fencing along the Bangladesh border in Tripura since Friday, while a blame-game is on between the border guards of the two countries over their refuge.

The Tripura Tea Development Corporation (TTDC) on Tuesday said it is contemplating to use the land between the fencing and the actual Indo-Bangladesh border for tea plantation to boost the industry.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has agreed to Home Minister Rajnath Singh's request to acquire 300 acres of land in the state and give it to the Centre for constructing barbed wire fencing along the India-Bangladesh border, officials said Friday.

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.

Malda in West Bengal was always the capital for counterfeit notes smuggled in from bordering Bangladesh.

India will have a patrol-less, multi-layered smart fence along its borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh by the later part of 2017 even as 20 big global firms are undertaking a technical evaluation for the same, Director General of BSF KK Sharma said on Wednesday.

India and Bangladesh have taken a "major decision" to erect a new fence to secure over 250 villages ahead of the present barbed-wire fence along the International Border (IB) to curb cross-border crimes and instill a sense of security among the people living in the area.

Golok Das, a farmer in Assam, is happy with the harvest produced by his main six-hectare farm. But he'd love to sell another four-hectare plot, just half a kilometre away, even though it's equally fertile. Why? It sits on the other side of a barbed-wire fence marking the Bangladesh border, and that means he can't irrigate it.

To prevent the smuggling of cattle and narcotics, the BSF will now have a second line of deterrence -- a thick hedge of more than 60,000 medicinal plants and 40 bee boxes -- along a three-kilometer fenced stretch of the India-Bangladesh border.

"These dogs are never brought into contact with other dogs. And breeding is performed under the supervision of a veterinary doctor," said an officer

Thirty one Rohingya Muslims are stuck in no-man's land, holed up behind the barbed wire fencing along the Bangladesh border in Tripura since Friday, while a blame-game is on between the border guards of the two countries over their refuge.

The Tripura Tea Development Corporation (TTDC) on Tuesday said it is contemplating to use the land between the fencing and the actual Indo-Bangladesh border for tea plantation to boost the industry.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has agreed to Home Minister Rajnath Singh's request to acquire 300 acres of land in the state and give it to the Centre for constructing barbed wire fencing along the India-Bangladesh border, officials said Friday.

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.

Malda in West Bengal was always the capital for counterfeit notes smuggled in from bordering Bangladesh.

India will have a patrol-less, multi-layered smart fence along its borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh by the later part of 2017 even as 20 big global firms are undertaking a technical evaluation for the same, Director General of BSF KK Sharma said on Wednesday.

India and Bangladesh have taken a "major decision" to erect a new fence to secure over 250 villages ahead of the present barbed-wire fence along the International Border (IB) to curb cross-border crimes and instill a sense of security among the people living in the area.

Golok Das, a farmer in Assam, is happy with the harvest produced by his main six-hectare farm. But he'd love to sell another four-hectare plot, just half a kilometre away, even though it's equally fertile. Why? It sits on the other side of a barbed-wire fence marking the Bangladesh border, and that means he can't irrigate it.