Bhubaneswar, Oct. 21 -- New Delhi: The government is undertaking a comprehensive modernisation programme to prepare the country's police and paramilitary forces for newer challenges in terrorism, cybercrime and border security, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Wednesday.

Shah laid a wreath at the National Police Memorial in Chanakyapuri to pay homage to the slain policemen and addressed a joint column of police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) on the occasion of Police Commemoration Day.

The day is observed in memory of 10 CRPF personnel who were killed in an ambush by Chinese troops in 1959 in Ladakh's Hot Spring area.

Armies of the two countries are currently locked in a military standoff in the Ladakh area.

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