The Border Security Force is deployed along the LoC under the operational command of the Army as part of guarding the front against Pakistan.
A man died of cardiac arrest following a grenade attack by militants on a security patrol in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, official sources said.
The encounter took place in Hajin area of north Kashmir's Bandipora district on Wednesday.
Modi, after assuming office in 2014, has primarily spent the festival every year with soldiers and security personnel at different parts of the country.
Security forces on Wednesday arrested one of the top commanders of terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen along with two other suspects from Bandipora district.
Search operations were on in the area.
"The incidents of targeting civilians in Kashmir since a few days are barbaric. Innocent people who are working for the society and have nothing to do with anyone are being targeted," the police chief said.
Ganderbal district recorded the highest of 56.40 per cent polling in the Valley, while Poonch district of Jammu region polled the highest of 71.62 per cent votes across J-K.
According to reports, the operation concluded without any positive results.
Aijaz Hussain won the Khonmoh-II District Development Council seat in Srinagar, while Aijaz Ahmad Khan gave the party more reason to cheer by winning the Tulail seat in Bandipora district.
A police spokesperson said two of the four recent cases of target killings in Srinagar and Bandipora have been solved with the elimination of the terrorists involved in these incidents.
Normal life across Kashmir was affected on Monday because of the strike called by separatist groups to protest against the killing of two youths in alleged army firing in Valley's Bandipora district.
An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Naidkhai area of Bandipora after security forces launched a search operation following specific intelligence inputs, an army official said.
Acting on specific intelligence inputs about the presence of militants in Aragam village of Bandipora, security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation, an army official said.
Two weapons have been recovered from the encounter site.
Hashim Sofi, who hails from Bandipora district of Kashmir, had told the hostel's chief warden that on Friday morning, he had found the door of his room and his clothes inked with threats and abuses, an official of the institute said.
This time army killed 1 terrorists along the Line of Control in Gurez sector.
The report published in the gazettes of India appeared in local newspapers on Monday and showed that Habba Kadal seat in Kashmir division and Suchetgarh seat in Jammu province had been restored.
The 68-year-old Bindroo, who ran Bindroo Medicate, was shot at by the assailants point blank at his pharmacy, a police official said, adding he was rushed to a hospital where he was declared brought dead.
An army officer belonging to the elite counter-insurgency unit was charred to death when a fire broke out in his camp in Bandipora district of Kashmir, officials said.
Sixteen army personnel, including five officers, were killed and nine others injured in two avalanches in Ganderbal and Bandipora districts of Kashmir Valley.
Ten soldiers were killed while several others are missing after two avalanches in Gurez Sector of Kashmir, an army official said on Thursday.
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and 15 activists were detained as the separatist group tried to take out a march here to protest the killing of a youth by Army in Bandipora district of north Kashmir on Tuesday.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who took his ministers to a remote town near Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday, has said the next month's cabinet meeting will be held at another LoC town of Gurez in Bandipora district.
At least 12 militants and an army officer were killed and two jawans wounded in an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in north Kashmir Bandipore district on Saturday.
The military operation inside the forests of Gurez sector follows the first large infiltration attempt of the year, which was detected and foiled by the Army last week when 12 terrorists were killed in an operation in the same sector of Bandipora district.
A militant was killed and three army jawans injured in three different encounters with terrorists in Bandipora and Kupwara district along the Line of Control in north Kashmir, official sources said on Tuesday.
Curfew continued to remain imposed in a village in Bandipora district of north Kashmir for the seventh day today following last week's sectarian clashes in which four persons were injured.
A civilian was shot dead by the Army in a case of "mistaken identity" during an ambush in the forests of Bandipora district, a defence spokesman said in Srinagar on Thursday. "The man was challenged by the troops but he started running away, forcing the soldiers to open fire which resulted in injuries to the man," the spokesman said. He said after ascertaining that the injured person was not armed, the troops gave him first aid but he succumbed to his injuries.
The spokesman said more details of the encounter will be available when the operation concludes, as the gunbattle is still on. With Wednesday's killings, the death toll in the four-day operation has gone up to 12
Seven terrorists and an army trooper were killed in two separate anti-militancy operations in Kashmir Valley on Monday.
Pakistan has invited India for a meeting to discuss the appointment of neutral experts for the controversial Kishanganga hydel power project.The meeting is scheduled to take place on July 13 in Islamabad. Both India and Pakistan have agreed on international arbitration over the controversial project in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir.However, if the two countries fail to reach a consensus during the talks, the experts will be decided by a draw of lots by World Bank,UN
Three militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in the forests of Bandipora district of north Kashmir on Monday.
A Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in north Kashmir's Bandipora district, the police said on Friday.
Two Indian Army personnel were injured in a grenade explosion near the Line of Control in Gurez sector of North Kashmir's Bandipora district on Monday, a defence official said.
Days after eight-year-old Tajamul Islam scripted history by becoming the first player ever from the sub-junior category to win a gold medal at the World Kickboxing Championship, another Kashmiri boy has made the country proud. Hashim Mansoor, a six-year old boy from Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district, has emerged as yet another young star from the region after winning a gold medal in the Asian Karate Championship held recently at Talkatora stadium in New Delhi.
Gurez constituency in the once terrorist-infested Bandipora district recorded the highest voting -- 74 per cent -- followed by Mendhar and Poonch (73), Surankote (68), Nobra (66) Leh, Kargil and Zanskar (all 60 per cent), Bandipora(57) and Sonawari (46)
Reasi district of Jammu region recorded 75.20 per cent voting, the highest in the union territory, State Election Commissioner (SEC) K K Sharma said, adding that 50.53 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the third phase of the maiden DDC polls in J-K.
The terrorists, however, managed to escape after the gunbattle and security forces were making efforts to track them down.
Two terrorists were killed in an overnight gunfight in Hajin area of Bandipora district, officials said.
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