A gunbattle broke out between militants and security forces in Tangmarg area of north Kashmir' Baramulla district on Thursday.
Samir Ahmad Wani alias Jaan Sahib was killed in a gunbattle with security forces at Nagri Hatmulla in Kupwara district, a police official said.
The terrorists opened firing on a naka party of security forces in Sopore, resulting in injuries to three CRPF jawans and a civilian, the officials said.
The three-year-old son of a former militant, who was critically wounded in an attack in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Saturday evening, succumbed to injuries in a hospital in Srinagar.
A controversy erupted on Sunday over the purported communication from the Centre to the family of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru about the decision to hang him on Saturday with the family alleging they had come to know about his hanging from TV channels and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah joining the criticism.
An unidentified militant was on Saturday killed as security forces scuttled a major infiltration bid in Machil sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district, Army said.
Three villagers were buried alive in an avalanche in the mountainous Dara Kujal village in the Uri area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Monday afternoon. Bodies of the three villagers have been recovered from under tons of snow by a rescue party, a police spokesman said.
The Indian army on Tuesday said that Pakistan army has refused a flag meeting after its troops violated the bilateral ceasefire in north Kashmir last month.
Three youth were injured, one of them critically in security force firing in north Kashmir Sopore town Friday even as the Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel staged a flag march in parts of summer capital Srinagar this afternoon.
People living in areas close to Line of Control in Kashmir are demanding special grant for construction of bunkers to escape shelling as India and Pakistan have resumed hostilities by heavy firing at each others' position.
A novel protest by a sitting MLA against the dog menace was frustrated by the Jammu and Kashmir police in summer capital Srinagar on Wednesday.
Congress General Secretary, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday asserted his Kashmiri origin saying his family came from Kashmir and he was also a Kashmiri.
Four troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force were seriously injured in a powerful blast in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Thursday afternoon. Militants hurled a grenade at the battalion headquarters of the CRPF, located in a hotel building near the main bus stand, said a spokesperson of the police.
India cricket captain Virat Kohli offered his condolences to the families of the victims of the Uri terrorist attack, saying such cowardly acts are "disturbing" and "hurts" every citizen of the country.
Three unidentified terrorists were killed in a fierce encounter in north Kashmir Baramulla district on Thursday.
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.
Two days after a village head was gunned down in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, scare and panic has struck the elected village heads and representatives in the region, forcing many of them to resign.
A sarpanch was critically injured in a suspected militant attack in Sopore township of north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Thursday, police said.
Militants gunned down a Special Police Officer and critically wounded a trooper of the Territorial Army in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Saturday afternoon. A senior police officer said the attack happened in Brat Kalan locality of Sopore town, 54 km from capital Srinagar.
Afzal Guru had written a letter to his wife Tabassum hours before he was executed on Saturday morning in the high-security Tihar jail. "He penned a letter to his wife before he was taken to the gallows," a top official of the jail said.
Exchange of heavy fire between holed-up militants and security forces in the forest area of Chattergul in north Kashmir Ganderbal district continued for the second day on Sunday.
Afzal Guru, who was convicted for the 2001 Parliament attack case and sentenced to death, was hanged in Tihar Jail at 8 am on Saturday. His mercy petition was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee earlier this week.
The Meteorological Department has forecast rains or snow over five days from Monday.
The army on Monday foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, killing two militants while three army jawans were also killed.
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.
Four cops and three civilians were wounded in a powerful grenade attack at a police station in north Kashmir's Baramulla district Wednesday evening.
A top Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant was killed in a six-hour-long gun-battle with security forces in Sopore town of north Kashmir Baramulla district, the police said.
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Two powerful explosions rocked north Kashmir's Sopore town on Tuesday evening injuring one policeman.
Two militants of Hizbul Mujaheedin outfit were killed in an encounter in north Kashmir's Baramulla district Saturday morning.
Defence minister A K Antony on Sunday visited a forward post in north Kashmir's Kupwara sector.
The fresh batch of diplomats also includes EU representatives, and their participation assumes significance as the EU Parliament recently initiated to bring a joint draft resolution on the Citizenship Amendment Act and Kashmir, the vote on which was later deferred.
A separatist sponsored shutdown affected normal life in Srinagar and other towns Saturday.
Terrorists revealed that they had come to Handwara for receiving ammunition and other war-like stores for their militant outfit in South Kashmir.
An encounter broke out between the army and militants near the Line of Control on Friday in Uri sector of north Kashmir.
The main bunker, located in the round-about of the main market, has been vacated and taken over by municipal authorities.
Stone-pelting broke out in Baramulla town of north Kashmir soon after hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday addressed a gathering there, police said.
A police party was targeted in Sopore area of north Kashmir at their behest.
Five militants were killed in two separate encounters in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Wednesday.
Security forces gunned down two local militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen outfit in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Tuesday evening.
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