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To guard the territorial integrity and national security from any quarter, the Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor, has assured that security forces are ready to face any challenge , and added that Special Forces modernisation is being done keeping in view asymmetric and fourth generation warfare...

Home Minister P Chidambaram said that personnel of the Special Forces Unit, an anti-terrorist force set up in Bangalore following the Mumbai terror attacks, were "available for deployment at short notice". Chidambaram said: "At present, the SFU has 100 men of all ranks and by the end of this...

Nearly a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had described Left-wing extremism as a "virus", the government has given the green signal to raise a 10,000-strong special anti-Naxal force COBRA. The nod to the Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA), under the command and control of...