NEW DELHI: Galwan is restless, Sasoma is quiet and Daulat is tirelessly playful. With their 14 Belgian Malinois siblings, these lively canines will now give Indo Tibetan Border Police’s (ITBP)’s dog squad more teeth and, significantly, begin what the border force plans a tradition to go Indian with names.
On Wednesday morning, these puppies, each month-old were lined up at ITBP’s training facility at Bhanu in Haryana’s Panchkula and ordained into the force with a tip of the crutch-sword at an official ‘naam karan’ ceremony as the force has decided to junk its decades-old practice to call its canines with anglicised western names .