This assurance was given by home minister Amit Shah to a delegation of sarpanch and panch from Jammu and Kashmir who met him on Tuesday.
The policemen were patrolling the area in view of a separatist-sponsored strike.
"Around 5 am, militants opened firing on an army camp at Langate in Kupwara district, which was retaliated by the alert jawans," an army official said.
A teacher and a student were among three persons killed while 50 others injured when a school bus carrying students on a picnic trip plunged into a gorge near Gulmarg tourist resort in Kashmir's Baramulla district on Wednesday.
Two militants were killed and a jawan was injured on Friday in an encounter in the Handwara area of Kupwara district.
Seven militants were killed by the army in an ongoing fierce encounter in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Monday.
The police spokesman said the LeT terrorist has been identified as Sajad Ahmad Shah, a resident of Gund in Chogul area in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
'A couple of hours before the H-Hour, the Kupwara division opened small arms and mortar fire on posts opposite its area of operation.' 'This was a diversionary tactic.' 'As Pakistani forces began to react to the firing, special forces teams began to slowly cross the LoC into PoK.' Nitin Gokhale reveals how planning for the surgical strikes began hours after the Uri attack.
Two youth were killed and another wounded on Tuesday when security forces allegedly opened fire to disperse protesters in north Kashmir's Handwara town.
The joint separatist camp, including Hurriyat Conference factions led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik-led Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, has asked the people to march to Tral to pay tributes to Wani, who was killed in an encounter with security forces on this day last year.
An army officer, a trooper, two cops and five militants were among nine persons killed in the four-day-long fierce encounter in the northern forests of Kupwara district.
Three cops of the Jammu and Kashmir police and three terrorists were killed in an ongoing north Kashmir gunfight on Tuesday.
After occupying it for over two decades, paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force vacated the Firdous Cinema located in the old city, thereby meeting a long pending demand of the locals.
He said the army was retaliating strongly and effectively to the ceasefire violation.
Parvez was arrested on September 16 and placed in administrative detention in a jail in Kupwara for allegedly posing an imminent threat of breach of peace.
The first phase of the Panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir passed off peacefully without any incident on Wednesday. The authorities had made elaborate security arrangements for today's polls during which people exhibited enthusiasm in electing the representatives at the village level.
If this trend continues, 2018 may end up as the worst year in terms of number of youths joining various terror groups, according to the officials.
A soldier of the counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles was killed in an ongoing encounter with militants in the Khaimal forest area in North Kashmir's Kupwara district on Wednesday afternoon.
Twenty-six-year-old Lieutenant Sushil Khajuria was part of the team that was scrambled to take on terrorists who were trying to infiltrate the Indian territory from across the border.
The army on Monday said Pakistan had a "direct role" in the mutilation of a soldier's body along the Line of Control in Machhil sector of Kupwara district on November 22.
Two militants including a top commander of Lashker-e-Tayiba were on Thursday killed in a fierce gunbattle with security forces in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, a senior police officer said.
The Pakistani troops opened fire at 5 pm on Sunday towards Indian posts located close to civilian areas in Karnah area, 140 kms from here, official sources said on Monday.
The 40-day period marks the harshest phase of the winter in the Kashmir valley.
Troops noticed suspicious movement along the LoC and challenged the intruders, leading to a gunfight.
A top Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant was killed in an overnight encounter in Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
In its 'Inquiry Report of Unmarked Graves in North Kashmir', the SHRC states that the unidentified bodies had been buried in 38 sites in north Kashmir's Baramulla, Bandipora, Handwara and Kupwara districts.
One woman was killed and her husband was in jured in an exchange of fire between north Kashmir security forces and terrorists late Sunday night.
A total of 3,372 nominations have been filed for 1,145 wards. The next phases take place on 10th, 13th and 16th October.
Militants on Wednesday shot dead a youth and injured another, who were working as porters with the army, in Keran area of Kupwara district near the Line of Control in Kashmir, the army said.
Seven militants have been killed in separate gun battles with security forces in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, army officials said on Wednesday.
Braving inclement weather, Army aviation pilots on Monday airlifted the five injured soldiers from Macchil to Srinagar for specialised treatment. Unfortunately, all five brave hearts attained martyrdom, an army official said.
Two militants were killed in a fierce encounter in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Saturday.
Three terrorists were killed and two security forces personnel injured on Friday in an encounter in Lolab in Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said in Srinagar. Three terrorists were killed and two security forces personnel injured on Friday in an encounter in Lolab in Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said in Srinagar. Security forces have surrounded a house in Maidanpora village in north Kashmir's Kupwara district where four militants o
Four militants were killed as army troops foiled an infiltration bid near the Line of Control in Keran sector of Kupwara district in north Kashmir. The troops foiled an infiltration bid by militants from across the Line of Control in Keran sector on Friday, triggering a gun-battle that lasted for more than 36 hours, during which four militants were killed. The bodies of all the slain militants have been recovered along with a cache of arms and ammunition.
There will be eight more phases of Panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
A huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives were recovered in the Kashmir Valley and three militant sympathisers were also arrested in separate operations, officials said on Tuesday.
Security forces on Tuesday averted a major tragedy with the timely detection of a powerful IED on Srinagar-Kupwara road, official said.
Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma on Monday visited the Tangdhar sector of the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
The gun battle broke out between terrorists and security forces in Wuder Bala area of Handwara, 95 km from Srinagar, in the wee hours after Army launched a search operation in the area, Defence Spokesman Lt Colonel J S Brar said.
Militants late on Friday night gunned down a father and his son in Rajwar area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
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