Women Security Personnel

An all-women unit of the Border Security Force (BSF) made a maiden gesture and handed over sweets and exchanged greetings with lady BGB personnel of Bangladesh at the front in West Bengal as part of the traditional Independence Day celebrations.

Six Maoists, including two women cadres, were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Wednesday, a police official said.

Six women from West Bengal's Sandeshkhali met President Droupadi Murmu here on Friday and demanded that central security force personnel be deployed in the area for the protection of women.

Two of the bunkers in Imphal city were destroyed on Friday by women's group Meira Paibis, who suspect that the security personnel would utilise the fortifications to suppress the people's movement in the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur.

Police nabbed three women in the operation who were working as watchers for Maoists, an official said.

Two women security personnel at Mahakaleshwar Temple in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain were removed from service after they posted a video clip of themselves dancing to a film song on the premises of the famous shrine, an official said on Monday.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has inducted 8 women personnel for training, handling and deployment of Malinois dogs, the very same famous breed that secures ITBP troops in the anti-Naxal theatre.

An express train was operated for the first time by all women staff including the loco pilot, guard, TTE, security personnel in Chakradharpur division of South Eastern Railway today on the occasion of the International Women's Day, an officer said.

A day ahead of Republic Day celebrations, terrorists on Tuesday threw a grenade, targetting security personnel in Srinagar and resulting in injuries to four persons including a police officer and two women, officials said.

The introduction of women security personnel is being seen as a priority especially ahead of the poll season in Uttar Pradesh, among four other states next year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday recalled the police personnel who had laid down their lives in the line of duty and highlighted that presence of women security personnel naturally instils a sense of confidence among the people, especially wome

India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations has co-sponsored a Security Council resolution that calls for "full, effective and meaningful participation" of women personnel in peacekeeping operations.

A murder case was filed against BJP legislator Kuldeep Sengar after Sunday's accident in Raebareli, in which two women died and a teenager he allegedly raped two years ago, got injured and is in a critical condition. The teen's mother said the accident was meant to "eliminate" her daughter and that Kuldeep Sengar was plotting against them from jail...

In a first, women serving in the police and CRPF will soon don customised body armour, also known as Full Body Protectors (FBP).

In a first for Delhi, the Election Commission is planning to set up booths with only women staffers to send across a message of women's empowerment. At these special booths, the presiding officers, polling officers, micro observers and security personnel will all be women.

An all-women unit of the Border Security Force (BSF) made a maiden gesture and handed over sweets and exchanged greetings with lady BGB personnel of Bangladesh at the front in West Bengal as part of the traditional Independence Day celebrations.

Six Maoists, including two women cadres, were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Wednesday, a police official said.

Six women from West Bengal's Sandeshkhali met President Droupadi Murmu here on Friday and demanded that central security force personnel be deployed in the area for the protection of women.

Two of the bunkers in Imphal city were destroyed on Friday by women's group Meira Paibis, who suspect that the security personnel would utilise the fortifications to suppress the people's movement in the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur.

Police nabbed three women in the operation who were working as watchers for Maoists, an official said.

Two women security personnel at Mahakaleshwar Temple in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain were removed from service after they posted a video clip of themselves dancing to a film song on the premises of the famous shrine, an official said on Monday.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has inducted 8 women personnel for training, handling and deployment of Malinois dogs, the very same famous breed that secures ITBP troops in the anti-Naxal theatre.

An express train was operated for the first time by all women staff including the loco pilot, guard, TTE, security personnel in Chakradharpur division of South Eastern Railway today on the occasion of the International Women's Day, an officer said.

A day ahead of Republic Day celebrations, terrorists on Tuesday threw a grenade, targetting security personnel in Srinagar and resulting in injuries to four persons including a police officer and two women, officials said.

The introduction of women security personnel is being seen as a priority especially ahead of the poll season in Uttar Pradesh, among four other states next year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday recalled the police personnel who had laid down their lives in the line of duty and highlighted that presence of women security personnel naturally instils a sense of confidence among the people, especially wome

India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations has co-sponsored a Security Council resolution that calls for "full, effective and meaningful participation" of women personnel in peacekeeping operations.

A murder case was filed against BJP legislator Kuldeep Sengar after Sunday's accident in Raebareli, in which two women died and a teenager he allegedly raped two years ago, got injured and is in a critical condition. The teen's mother said the accident was meant to "eliminate" her daughter and that Kuldeep Sengar was plotting against them from jail...

In a first, women serving in the police and CRPF will soon don customised body armour, also known as Full Body Protectors (FBP).

In a first for Delhi, the Election Commission is planning to set up booths with only women staffers to send across a message of women's empowerment. At these special booths, the presiding officers, polling officers, micro observers and security personnel will all be women.