Veerander Singh had a verbal duel with company commander Inspector Snoop following which he opened fire at him and another jawan identified as Parveen Kumar near the cave shrine, leaving both of them in a critical condition, DIG (Reasi Udhampur Range) Alok Puri told PTI. The jawan later committed suicide by shooting himself with the self loading rifle, he added.
Eight militants were killed across Jammu and Kashmir in three different gunfights between security forces and militants Wednesday.
Jammu woke up to a tense morning on Saturday as the Army was called in to help the administration in maintaining law and order after violent protests over the Amarnath land row.The Army was called in Jammu city and other curfew bound areas of the district and continues to remain deployed along with police and paramilitary forces.The Army was deployed in the adjoining district of Samba since Friday evening, in the wake of violence here in which two persons died.
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for traffic for the third day on Friday due to fresh landslides triggered by heavy rains, leaving over 500 Kashmir-bound passengers stranded.
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist was killed on Thursday in a brief gunfight with security forces in a village in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, police said.
As the Indian Army reported its first case of the infection with a 34-year-old soldier testing positive in Leh, the Army said it has taken a series of precautionary measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus among the forces such as checking flu symptoms among soldiers on their return from leave and cancelling non-essential travel, conferences and recruitment drives.
'The lush green of Kashmir was exactly like the postcards and posters I had seen growing up.'
This is the first case in the Valley in which Indian Army personnel have been awarded life terms on these charges.
Large swathes of the country reeled under heatwave conditions on Tuesday with Churu in Rajasthan recording a high of 48 degree Celsius.
They were stranded on a concrete platform at the bottom of a pillar of an under-construction structure to create a lake at Baghwati Nagar, they said.
Officials said the government has made necessary arrangements for opening of 190 primary schools in Srinagar city as security forces remained deployed in most of the Valley.
A senior Congressman from South India told Rediff.com, "This is a big setback for Rahul Gandhi's strategy of stalling Parliament. Sushma has not resigned and Khargeji is speaking and debating. What does it say about our stand in this session?"
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.
Shops downed shutters, educational institutions were shut and fewer vehicles plied on roads as government offices reported thin attendance in the state.
The Army has appointed Lt Gen NPS Hira as Deputy Chief of Army Staff with effect from March 14.
The Army is not in favour of a ceasefire with militants in Jammu and Kashmir during the month of Ramzan as they can pose a bigger security threat while merging with the civilian population.
Incessant rains have hampered the restoration work and it was diffcult to say when the highway could become traffic worthy.
Railways proposes to complete over 550 kms of new lines in eight sections, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav announced on Friday.
'You have not understood the heart of the Indian Air Force,' notes IAF Veteran Nitin Welde.
The authorities have also formed committees of senior defence personnel, to recommend steps for checking such behaviour among the troops.
The country is all set for the second round of elections on April 18 in the ongoing seven-phase Lok Sabha polls that will elect 543 members to the lower house of Parliament. Going to polls in the second phase will be 95 seats in 12 states and one Union Territory. Here is a look at some of the big names contesting in phase two of Lok Sabha elections.
Union Minister P Chidambaram has opted out of the Lok Sabha election with the party on Thursday night nominating his son Karti from his constituency Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu while another Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was brought as a candidate from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir.
A peace march was taken out in Doda district, where 19 Hindus were killed, to express solidarity with families of the victims.
Four Army men died on the spot when a mine-protected vehicle of the 23 Rastriya Rifles unit fell in a 300-feet deep gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.
Repeated violation of ceasefire and frequent infiltration attempts by terrorists will be in top agenda of the meeting between heads of border guards of India and Pakistan to be held in New Delhi next week.
Two Army jawans, hawildar Virpal Singh and sepoy Karodimal, were killed in a fierce gun-battle with militants at village Kund.
While Chakraborty's family has claimed she was unhappy with the job, the army has maintained that she was suffering from depression due to low self-esteem.
Susmita Chakravorty shot herself on Thursday night.
The first-ever trial train to Kashmir took off for the Valley on Tuesday not on traditional tracks but on the 300 km-long Jammu-Srinagar national highway.
While the Congress will contest the Jammu and Udhampur Lok Sabha seats, National Conference will fight from Srinagar.
More than 20 students have been taken away forcibly.
Following the massive fire that spread to several areas, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board requested the Air Force to help douse the fire.
