Tag: Crpf

Bonai: Kiriburu police and CRPF personnel in Jharkhand managed to avert a major rail mishap when they recovered a tiffin bomb from the rail track near Karampada, about 2 km from Topadihi under K Balang police station limits in Sundergarh district this morning.

Taking note of increasing Maoist activities in Balangir district in western Odisha, the state government has initiated the process for shifting the CRPF battalion from Baripada to Balangir

Sambalpur: Another five rapid action force battalion will be set up in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), DG Prakash Mishra said. As many as 10 such battalions are there in the para military force. On the sidelines of laying foundation stone for the CRPF Group centre at Basantpur in the district, DG Prakash Mishra […]

Bhubaneswar: Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) DG Prakash Mishra is scheduled to visit Samabalpur today. During his visit to the city, Mishra will lay the foundation stone of CRPF group centre at Basantpur area in Gosala. Notably, after Bhubaneswar this will be the second CRPF centre in Odisha which has both accommodation and training facilities […]

Odisha had proposed the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to deploy more forces in Kandhamal and Nuapada district, said DGP Sanjeev Marik here

The Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPF) director general (DG) Prakash Mishra would visit cut-off area in Odisha on Monday to take stock of its operations against Maoists in the state, said sources

Srinagar: After last year’s attack on an unescorted bus of Amarnath pilgrims, the CRPF has this year adopted an “identify and track policy” for vehicles ferrying devotees to the annual cave shrine pilgrimage in Kashmir Himalayas beginning on Thursday. To ensure identification, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), primarily responsible for the security of the […]

Srinagar: Nineteen Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured in a road accident here on Sunday, police said. The accident occurred after a CRPF vehicle went out of the driver’s control in the city’s Bemina area and turned turtle. One critically injured trooper is being airlifted to Delhi even as a controversy of sorts […]

Sukma (Chhattisgarh): Two CRPF troopers were injured when Maoist rebels triggered an IED (improvised explosive device) on Thursday in Chattisgarh’s Sukma district. According to Central Reserve Police Force officials, the blast that took place at 7.45 a.m., was targeted at the troops of 206 Cobra Battalion who were on a routine operation in the area. […]

Jammu: A woman has accused a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper of raping her here in March, Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Sunday. “In the complaint lodged yesterday (Saturday) by the woman from Pooch district, she said she was ambushed by three CRPF troopers and was later taken inside a camp where one […]

Srinagar: A paramilitary trooper was killed in an ongoing gunfight with militants holed up in a building after a failed terror bid on a CRPF camp in Srinagar, police said. The trooper was wounded in the shootout as the security forces prepared for a final assault against the holed-up militants, a police officer said. He was […]

Raipur/Jagdalpur: Four CRPF troopers were killed and one grievously injured when a fellow trooper opened fire at them at a CRPF camp in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday evening. The injured trooper has been flown to capital Raipur for medical treatment. DIG P. Sunderaj said the incident occurred in Bijapur district’s Basguda camp of the […]

Raipur: At least 14 naxals were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district today, police said. The gun-battle took place this morning in a forest area in south Sukma, around 500 km from Raipur, Deputy Inspector General (anti-naxal operations) Sundarraj P told PTI. “So far, bodies of 14 naxals have been […]

Raipur: Nine personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed when suspected Maoists blew up their mine-protected vehicle (MPV) in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district today, an official said. Some jawans were also reported to be injured in the explosion, but there was no official confirmation yet, he said. The blast occurred when a team […]

Hyderabad: BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today suggested that the Army should return to barracks in Jammu and Kashmir, leaving the anti-militancy operations to CRPF and state police, which he said would act “like a balm on the psyche” of the people there. The former external affairs minister also said that Pakistan has become a “necessary […]