The BSF has issued an alert and taken all preventive measures at the India-Bangladesh border, PTI has reported citing an official of the force. The measures aim to ensure "miscreants or terror elements" do not cross over taking advantage of the tension at the Indo-Pakistan border, the official told PTI on Wednesday. Bangladesh and West Bengal share about 2,216.7 km border, of which a large portion is unfenced. Patrolling in the riverine border areas of the Sundarbans has also been increased, the BSF official said, according to the PTI report. India and Pakistan both said they shot down each other's fighter jets on Wednesday, with Pakistan capturing an Indian pilot a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a 1971 war, prompting world powers to urge restraint.

Source: bd News24 February 27, 2019 22:29 UTC