A high polling percentage of about 71 percent was recorded in the 18 constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir that went to polls on Tuesday in the second phase of the 5 phase assembly elections.
Ignoring the separatists' call to shun the vote, electors in the five districts emulated the trend seen in the first phase by turning up at polling booths in large numbers at 8 am, the scheduled start of voting. It turned out to be an impressive 71.28 per cent turnout in the second phase.
The Indian Army has foiled an infiltration bid from across the border in Nowgam sector of Kashmir, killing three intruders. Army personnel detected some movement in the sector in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Saturday night. When the intruders were challenged by the army patrol, they opened fire, said army spokesman Naresh Vij.
The team of 21 Rashtriya Rifles had entered the house of a civilian to prevent a hostage situation when they came under attack from the terrorists who had already reached there. While the four army personnel and the police Sub Inspector lost their lives in the encounter, the civilians trapped in the house were safely evacuated.
One junior commissioned officer was killed and an army trooper injured when security forces foiled an infiltration bid in the Machil sector of the Line of Control on Saturday morning.
Goswami not only killed two terrorists, but also assisted in neutralising the other two and save the lives of three of his wounded colleagues.
This is the first such incident in Jammu region when a drone carrying arms and explosives was shot down by the BSF, frustrating Pakistan's attempt to smuggle weapons into the Union Territory using the hexacopter.
Despite threats by militants and separatist groups, civic polls in Baramulla and Kupwara districts of Jammu and Kashmir ended peacefully on Saturday.
A top terrorist commander of Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit was killed in a fierce gunfight in north Kashmir frontier Kupwara district on Sunday morning.
The poll process for the second tier of the Panchayati Raj system will be completed by November 5, he said.
Lieutenant Colonel SK Natt was evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
Two militants were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Keran sector near the Line of Control in Kashmir as they were trying to exfiltrate to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, a defence spokesman said.
Kashmir observed a shutdown for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday even as authorities continued curfew in several parts of the valley to prevent deterioration of law and order in the wake of killing of a youth allegedly in Army firing in Baramulla.
Two policemen were killed in a terrorist shootout in north Kashmir Handwara town, 80 kms from capital Srinagar on Saturday morning.
Reeling under strict restrictions with no access to communication since August 5 when the Centre announced its decision to end Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370 and bifurcate the state into two union territories, the people in the Valley have been facing a hair-raising challenge of finding a hairdresser to have their unkempt beards trimmed and unruly locks chopped.
'It's all about conviction and a burning desire inside you,' says Dr Ruveda Salam, the Kashmir valley's first Muslim woman to crack the UPSC exam.
Six army troopers were injured in an accidental blast inside a heavily guarded camp of the Rashtriya Rifles in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Thursday morning. A senior police officer said a powerful grenade went off accidentally while a clean-up operation was going on in the camp.
Andrabi, the founder of the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, an Islamist separatist organisation is also a member of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
Pakistan has launched new terror outfits staffed by cadres of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed under 'local names' to mislead the world that it has nothing to do with the terrorism prevalent in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Police (DGP) of the union territory Dilbag Singh said.
The army foiled an infiltration bid in Keran sector of Kupwara district in north Kashmir on Friday night, killing four more militants.
Four terrorists and a soldier were killed in an overnight encounter in the Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said on Thursday.
A top Lashker-e-Tayiba foreign militant was on Tuesday killed in a gun battle with troops in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Authorities shut down schools and other educational institutions in north Kashmir as a precautionary measure for maintaining law and order.
In a new twist to the Delhi terror plot case, the wife of Kashmiri militant Syed Liaqat Shah has claimed that her husband and she came to Gorakhpur in a security vehicle from the Nepal border.
A 22-year-old youth Wasim Ahmad Lone died when security forces opened fire to disperse a stone-pelting mob in Nadihal area in Baramulla district.
The road, the alternative link between Kashmir and rest of the country, was closed after the season's first heavy snowfall in the Jammu region.
Two militants and a soldier were on Tuesday killed in a fierce gun-battle in Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said.
Mansi, the Labrador, received an enemy bullet, something which was enough to provoke her handler who started firing relentlessly at the infiltrators in Jammu and Kashmir
Four army men, including a Major, and an equal number of militants were on Tuesday killed while eight other security personnel and a civilian were injured in two separate encounters in Kashmir, officials said.
Two army personnel were killed due to heavy snowfall in Nougam Sector near the Line of Control in Kupwara district of north Kashmir on Friday. "Two jawans were killed due to weather vagary at Padam Post in Nougam sector," army spokesman Colonel B Pandey said.
Dozens of students from the government higher secondary school in Newa area of Pulwama district staged a protest against the alleged high-handedness of security forces.
A top Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant commander was on Friday killed in an encounter with security forces in a village in Kupwara district of north Kashmir.
The defence minister will review the security situation along the Line of Control in the Valley and Line of Actual Control in the Ladakh region.
Intense clashes had rocked Kashmir Valley in 2016 following the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in July that year, resulting in the death of over 85 people.
This is the second such incident of mutilation of the body of an Indian soldier on the LoC since October 29.
Five militants were killed in two separate encounters in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Wednesday.
A soldier and a terrorist were killed as Army foiled an infiltration bid near the Line of Control in Tangdhar sector of Kupwara district in Kashmir, a defence spokesman said in Jammu on Wednesday.
As soon as the operation ended, local residents started pelting stones at the security forces, he said, adding the clashes were going on till reports last came in.
Mobs defied curfew to indulge in stone-pelting leaving 15 people, including eight security personnel, injured in the incidents.
It added that there had been several reminders from the club to the government for freeing the communication of newspaper offices, journalists and the club itself.
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