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Central Armed Police Forces

With Maharashtra voting in a single phase on October 21, the Election Commission will be seeking adequate forces to ensure smooth conduct of elections in close to 2,700 sensitive polling booths — mostly in Aurangabad, Amaravati, Mumbai, Thane and Pune — across the state.

EC to ensure smooth polls in 2,700 sensitive booths

It is to be note that the Government of Maharashtra had earmarked Rs 913 crore for the Assembly election earlier this year.

22 Sep 2019 2:19 AM

The EC will deploy 200 coys of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in West Bengal in addition to the 82 companies present to ensure security at the counting centres and check any post-poll violence when the exercise is taken up, an EC senior official said Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

EC to deploy additional 200 CAPF units for LS counting

The counting for 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in Bengal will be taken up Thursday along with the rest of the country.

23 May 2019 2:01 AM

The Delhi police will deploy over 60,000 police personnel, including 47 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and 13,000 home guards to ensure smooth polling. (Photo: PTI)

48-hour silence before voting day comes into force

As many as 1,43,27,458 crore voters will decide the fate of 164 candidates.

11 May 2019 5:56 AM

The 770 companies have been drawn from the Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, Central Industrial Security Force, SAP, Indo-Tibetan Border Police and Railway Protection Force. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Central government deploys 770 companies of CAPF for polls

Eight parliamentary constituencies: Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Midnapore, Purulia, Bankura and Bishnupur will go to polls on May 12.

11 May 2019 2:21 AM

he geo-politics of containing the enemy through a simmering, low-level, proxy war of attrition is a fine art. (Photo: PTI)

Securing India is costly, think afresh on growth

The Pulwama massacre illustrates how porous our security architecture remains to domestic and external threats.

20 Feb 2019 3:00 AM

According to the home ministry, 189 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel committed suicide since 2012, while 175 were killed in action in the same period. (Photo: Representational | File)

At least 700 troopers committed suicide in last six years: Home ministry

The reasons include 'lack of stability, loneliness and domestic strife', senior officials of the ministry said.

22 Mar 2018 7:59 PM

The Army is under the administrative control of the defence ministry while the home ministry is the mother ministry of India’s paramilitary forces also called the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs). (Representational Image)

Army likely to hire, train officers for paramilitary

Mooted by the Army headquarters, the plan is being actively looked into by the ministry of defence (MoD) and the ministry of home affairs (MHA).

18 Mar 2018 2:22 AM

The Calcutta HC had stayed the withdrawal of CAPF from Darjeeling hills till Oct 27, 2017 after the West Bengal government approached it, opposing the Centre's decision. (Photo: File | PTI)

SC allows Centre to withdraw forces from Darjeeling hills after Mar 8

SC also set aside Calcutta HC order that restrained the Centre from withdrawing CAPF from Darjeeling saying normalcy had not returned.

21 Feb 2018 5:21 PM

An amount of Rs 12.93 Cr was raised at the event with contribution from celebrities like Akshay, Kailash and people of the corporate world. (Photo: File)

Compensation for defence casualties never enough: Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Singh was present at the 'Bharat Ke Veer' meet, which is a corpus fund to help families of paramilitary troopers.

20 Jan 2018 5:49 PM

Security forces foiled an infiltration bid near the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir, killing Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants, a senior police official said. (Representational Image)

J&K: Security forces kill 5 Jaish terrorists in infiltration bid near LoC

DGP SP Vaid said 5 JeM militants were killed by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Army and the Central Armed Police Forces.

15 Jan 2018 10:30 AM

The court listed the matter for further hearing to November 27.

SC allows Centre to withdraw forces from trouble-torn Hills

The bench asked the state government that its priority should be protection of citizens and property.

28 Oct 2017 6:40 AM

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