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NSA Ajit Doval's 'security grid' largely attributed for successful polls in J&K

It was a new "security grid'' put in place by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval that is being largely attributed to the peaceful election process in Jammu and Kashmir.Much before the Election Commission had formally announced the Assembly polls dates for J&K, the NSA had started working on the "security grid'' personally monitoring the entire plan for a formidable intelligence and security apparatus on the ground. Intelligence sources said that as part of the arrangement the NSA ensured that virtually the entire border with Pakistan along J&K was virtually sealed as election campaign in the State gained momentum. For this the Army and paramilitary forces directed an additional 20,000 troops along the border, which ensured a sharp dip in infiltration. Considering the strategic importance of the international border in J&K both the Army and paramilitary forces never disclose the exact number of troops deployed there. But the additional deployment is said to be heaviest till now. Sources said the NSA had been personally monitoring all developments related to the movement of JuD chief Hafiz Saeed. One of the specific intelligence inputs received revealed that Hafiz Saeed had been camping at terror training camp in Muzaffarabad for about a month planning disruption of elections in the Valley. Following this the NSA, sources added, directed that the border should be totally sealed to stop infiltration. "Our security forces have done a commendable job along the border and the information now reaching us suggests that Hafiz Saeed is now totally frustrated as he is not able to push in militants and all major infiltration bids have failed,'' a senior intelligence official said. Thus in the past one month there have been at least 48 infiltration attempts that have been thwarted by Indian security forces resulting in seizure of huge cache of arms and killing of militants.

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BSF seizes heroin worth Rs.15 crore near Amritsar

Amritsar: The Border Security Force (BSF) Sunday seized three kg of heroin, valued at Rs.15 crore in the international market, from the Amritsar sector of the India- Pakistan border, an official said. A BSF spokesman said the seizure was made near the Fatehpur border out post, nearly 300 km from Chandigarh. BSF troopers noticed some movement in the area near the international border despite the darkness and dense fog. They fired in that direction. A search of the area later led to the recovery of the heroin. The suspected smugglers escaped under the cover of the fog and darkness. With the latest seizure, the BSF has seized 361 kg of heroin this year in the Punjab sector. A total of 322 kg of the narcotic was seized in 2013.
BSF seizes heroin worth Rs.15 crore near Amritsar | Zee News
 

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The article ought to explain from the outset what the initials ITBP stand for: Indo-Tibetan Border Police. That's very poor journalism.
They are known as ITBP here, called with the same name. Some people might even not know ITBP stands for Indo Tibetan Border Police. As an example SWAT is more popular to 'Small Weapons And Tactics'.
 
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They are known as ITBP here, called with the same name. Some people might even not know ITBP stands for Indo Tibetan Border Police. As example SWAT is more popular to 'Small Weapons And Tactics'.
That's no excuse. If a journalist or other writer is going to use initials for the name of an organisation in an article or other item, he should name the organisation in full in his first reference to it and follow the full written reference by the initials of the organisation in brackets.

For example:

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the oldest air force in the world. Born out of much bureaucratic factional fighting in Whitehall in the last years of the First World War, the RAF was launched into life on All-Fools' Day 1918, that is 1st April 1918. The RAF was the product of the merger of the British Army's Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Navy's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). As such, the RAF, as Britain's newest branch of the armed forces, had elements of both the Army and the Navy in it.
 

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That's no excuse. If a journalist or other writer is going to use initials for the name of an organisation in an article or other item, he should name the organisation in full in his first reference to it and follow the full written reference by the initials of the organisation in brackets.

For example:

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the oldest air force in the world. Born out of much bureaucratic factional fighting in Whitehall in the last years of the First World War, the RAF was launched into life on All-Fools' Day 1918, that is 1st April 1918. The RAF was the product of the merger of the British Army's Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Navy's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). As such, the RAF, as Britain's newest branch of the armed forces, had elements of both the Army and the Navy in it.
Find the full name of SWAT in the article from WaPo below. Poor Journalism too?

A drug informant lied, SWAT pounced, a man died - The Washington Post
 

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Find the full name of SWAT in the article from WaPo below. Poor Journalism too?

A drug informant lied, SWAT pounced, a man died - The Washington Post
Again, poor journalism, which is to be expected from The Washington Post and many other U.S. newspapers. English-language journalism has declined markedly since the 1970s, it's not just the English-language press in India or elsewhere on the subcontinent.

The initials can remain in the headline provided that the abbreviation is explained in the first reference in the article to the organisation or institution. Thus:

A drug informant lied, SWAT pounced, a man died

Rewrite of the article's first sentence:

Last July, we examined at the case of Jason Wescott, a Florida man shot and killed by a police Special-Weapons-and-Tactics (SWAT) team during a drug raid over an alleged sale of $200 worth of pot to a police informant.
 
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Again, poor journalism, which is to be expected from The Washington Post and many other U.S. newspapers. English-language journalism has declined markedly since the 1970s, it's not just the English-language press in India or elsewhere on the subcontinent.

The initials can remain in the headline provided that the abbreviation is explained in the first reference in the article to the organisation or institution. Thus:

A drug informant lied, SWAT pounced, a man died

Rewrite of the article's first sentence:

Last July, we examined at the case of Jason Wescott, a Florida man shot and killed by a police Special-Weapons-and-Tactics (SWAT) team during a drug raid over an alleged sale of $200 worth of pot to a police informant.
Well then Sir, I can say you are expecting a standard for which you shall be routinely disappointed from Indian media.
 

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Well then Sir, I can say you are expecting a standard for which you shall be routinely disappointed by Indian media.
Which is a great shame, ladder, because many Indians (and Pakistanis, let's be fair) have spoken and written English exceedingly well and produced many excellent writers in the language, including authors and journalists. I'm very sorry to read that the plague of overly sloppy journalism is afflicting the English-language press in India. I include the countries of the Indian subcontinent as English-speaking countries as English is an official language in all these countries and is spoken and written as a second language throughout the subcontinent. Indeed, there is an identifiably subcontinental dialect of the language.

I can only guess that poor or sloppy English-language journalism in India is due to a decline in standards of English education there. English education in Australia is abysmally bad and I would suggest that English education on the subcontinent has not declined as rapidly or as low as it has in Australia and New Zealand or Canada and the U.S. (I would place Australian written English in journalism and elsewhere among the English-speaking world's worst. Australian journalism is far too often sloppy beyond belief.) This phenomenon is world-wide and has probably been in progress since the 1960s. The problem is progressive and the standard of written English now, on the first day of 2015, is much lower than it was 40 years ago on 1 January 1975. With each year, with each decade, the standard declines further. Alas, I try not to despair.
 
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NEW DELHI: In a maiden initiative undertaken for women empowerment in Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), the government has decided to recruit young female officers in the force and deploy them at select locations like Nathula Pass along the Indo-China frontier. ITBP is the designated security force to secure 3,488-km of the Line of Actual Control with China and since its raising in 1962, the force has never directly inducted women officers in its ranks considering the arduous nature of its task along the icy and inhospitable frontier running along the Himalayan mountain ranges. "An in-principle approval has been given by the government to recruit women officers in ITBP for the first time. The Union Home Ministry will soon issue orders for amending the recruitment rules in this regard. The UPSC is expected to issue advertisements for these posts this year itself," a senior official in the security establishment said. The government, in a gradual manner, has begun the exercise of hiring young women officers in two other border guarding forces of BSF (in 2013) and SSB (in 2014), but ITBP was since being ignored in this regard as its border posts and deployment of units are located in some of the most difficult areas on India's eastern flank. "Women will be recruited as Assistant Commandants, which is the direct entry level for officers in central paramilitary forces. ITBP has suggested they could be deployed at border interaction points like Nathula in Sikkim and at battalion or sector command units of the force in eastern states like Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand," the official said. The women officers can supervise the working of their border guarding contingents under their command and also undertake patrolling at some select stretches.
Government to Recruit Women Officers in ITBP for First Time - The New Indian Express
 

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Before Kathua attack, Pak objected to Indian cameras on the border
Before Kathua attack, Pak objected to Indian cameras on the border | The Indian Express

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Pakistan raised objections to a number of surveillance cameras put up by India along the International Border (IB) in the past 10 months, since the NDA government came to power.

Sources said that during the DIG-level meeting between Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers held on March 18, the latter objected to a "range of high resolution surveillance cameras" put up by India along the IB, especially in Jammu sector.
the Pakistan Rangers also objected to the use of UAVs by India. BSF mans the 192-km-long IB in Jammu.
Before Kathua attack, Pak objected to Indian cameras on the border | The Indian Express
 

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DHUBRI (Assam): Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, guarding the India-Bangladesh border, have rescued a minor boy from the clutches of traffickers along the international border in Assam, an official said on Sunday. BSF troops from Gachpara Border Outpost raided the house of Kismat Ali at Takamari village in the district on Saturday night and rescued the three-and-half-year- old boy, said a spokesman of the BSF's Guwahati frontier. The boy was identified as Runi of Phulbari village.

BSF troops of BOP Gachpara rescued a minor boy from the clutches of suspected human traffickers from a village near the international border in Dhubri on Saturday. (PTI Photo)

"We received specific intelligence that a minor boy was kidnapped from his house and was kept at the house of Ali waiting for an opportune moment to sneak him to Bangladesh in exchange for a huge amount of money," the BSF spokesman said. The BSF, however, failed to apprehend the traffickers. "The minor boy was later handed over to the police," the BSF spokesman said.

Meet 3-Year-Old Runi Who Was Rescued by BSF From Human Traffickers - The New Indian Express
 

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