Army troops thwarted a terrorist attack on a security post and house of a village defence guard (VDG) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district early Monday morning, officials said.
A Village Defence Committee member patrols Mangnar village near the Line of Control in Poonch on Thursday, January 5, 2023, in the wake of the January 1-2 terror attacks at Dhangri village in Rajouri district.
In a separate attack, militants fired two rockets, one of which hit a house close to a police station at Kotranka in Rajouri district killing its owner, Mohammed Sharif, and injuring his wife, two sons and another relative.
They handle the archaic 303 rifle easily even though it is heavier than the automatic ones.
The militants took away their weapons and set fire to the house of Tufel, who is a deputy headman in the area.
Ten-time Everest summiteer Tendi Sherpa tells Rediff.com contributor Anusha Subramanian why he cancelled his international climbing assignments to be with his community in the worst affected districts of earthquake hit Nepal.
Quake after quake continue to jolt the Himalayan nation. Aid is arriving in Nepal, but its far flung villages remain cut off, two weeks after the April 25 horror
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