Three Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, the police said.
An armyman on Monday told a military court hearing the fake Siachen killings case that he in August last year demolished a fake "enemy target" at the behest of Major Surinder Singh and later posed as an enemy casualty.
Nayak Bhuwan Bahadur Thapa said he, along with riflemen Yamraj Guru and R B Thapa, helped construct bunkers which were demolished in the fake encounters filmed by Major Singh.
Twenty Indian soldiers posted in border areas of the country, most of them in Jammu and Kashmir, have gone missing from 1996 to 2010, according to an RTI reply.
It is 25 years since Captain Sanjit Bhattacharjee went missing during a patrol on the India Pakistan border. Pakistan has never acknowledged his captivity.
'The Taliban are on the streets due to which there is an atmosphere of fear. The Taliban are constantly appealing to the people of the country that no person should leave Afghanistan and that that they won't let anyone cause any trouble'
Nepalese teenager Khagendra Thapa Magar has been named the world's smallest man, after being just two feet tall.
King Gyanendra Monday held talks with former prime ministers of Nepal.
CPN-Maoist leader Ram Bahadur Thapa 'Badal', who was the party's chief military strategist during the time the party's decade-long war with the State, made it clear that the Maoists were not in favour of retaining cultural king or any other form of monarchy, affirming that their 'struggle against feudalism' was also aimed at destroying all the remnants of the institution of monarchy. 'It would be good if he peacefully, leaves the palace after the first assembly sitting.
The Royalist Prime Minister resigned after weeks of violent protests against the monarchy.
Several armymen are facing allegations of staging fake encounters at the Line of Control in Siachen glacier.
The court is hearing a case against army officer Major Surinder Singh, who is accused of having stage managed the encounter.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari administered the oath of office and secrecy to Oli, 69, at a ceremony at Shital Niwas, after he was reappointed to the post on Thursday night as the Opposition parties failed to secure majority seats in Parliament to form a new government.
The existing SAARC Development Fund could be merged into the bank.
As the country paid tributes to the 1965 war heroes on Friday, a special comic book chronicling the life, valour and sacrifice of 21 awardees of the Param Vir Chakra, the nation's highest military decoration, was released.
Shaurya Chakra is usually awarded to armed forces and para-military personnel for 'gallantry otherwise in the face of the enemy'.
The condition of over two dozen people who were admitted to the hospital in Kathmandu is said to be serious.
Rifleman Aurangzeb, who belonged to the 44 Rashtriya Rifles, was on way back home on June 14 to celebrate Eid when terrorists abducted him.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday approved a total of 112 gallantry awards for defence and paramilitary personnel for their sacrifices to the nation, the defence ministry said.
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