An army major, a trooper and three militants were killed in a nearly 24-hour-long gunfight, which ended on Saturday in south Kashmir's Shopian district.
Some residents of Nani Daman area alerted the police about suspicious movements of six persons in military uniform on Wednesday, thinking they could be terrorists.
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A Delhi court Monday awarded death penalty to Ariz Khan for the murder of decorated Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in connection with the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter case, saying the offence fell under the 'rarest of the rare category' warranting the maximum sentence.
The army foiled the infiltration bid -- the first such attempt this year -- by the Pakistan-based outfit in an overnight operation
The state's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), which made the arrest, was tracking him for the past 8-10 days.
Naxals looted six automatic weapons -- two AK-47s and as many INSAS and self loading rifles -- of the deceased personnel.
A militant was on Wednesday gunned down in Baramulla in an encounter during which an armyman also lost his life.
An unidentified aircraft caused a security scare in Mumbai airspace on Saturday after it was spotted by an Etihad Airways flight and reported to the air traffic control, official sources said.
The Pakistani Taliban has reportedly issued a challenge to the country's media to stop the praise of retired Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and instead get behind Pakistani captain Misbah-ul Haq, whom they branded as ''sub-standard'' and a ''low-level player''.
In an audacious move, 11 young Kashmiri militants donning army fatigues and holding firearms, posted their photographs on Facebook, forcing the security forces to sit up and take notice.
Two dreaded Bodo militant leaders responsible for the massacres of adivasis in Assam's Kokrajhar have been arrested along with four of their associates and a large quantity of arms seized from their possession, a senior police officer said on Friday.
A top militant of the Lashkar e Tayiba was killed in a fierce encounter and another was arrested by security forces in Krankshivan area of Sopore in north Kashmir's Baramullah district on Monday.
A huge crater was created at the site of the ambush and two vehicles -- a jeep and a Shaktiman truck --were completely damaged.
'War is won by team work. War is won by sacrifices,' says Subedar Sanjay Kumar, Param Vir Chakra.
'If UAV technology is used by the adversary to target VIPs or strategic targets it would be a different ball game altogether,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
An assortment of sophisticated weaponry belonging to security personnel, including 10 AK-series rifles, were carried off by the Naxals from the site of the encounter on Monday in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh which left 14 Central Reserve Police Force jawans dead and over a dozen others injured.
Pakistan police have arrested a Taliban militant allegedly involved in the killing of former Minister for Minorities' Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti, who was shot dead for speaking against the blasphemy laws.
A cache of weapons was recovered from the encounter site
In a major success, army killed five suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists while losing two soldiers during an overnight encounter that ended on Saturday in Kupwara district bordering Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The damaged drone was recovered in Mahawa village based on the information given by one of the four people the state police arrested on Sunday.
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Wednesday targeted Defence Minister A K Antony and Arvind Kejriwal, calling them "agents of Pakistan and enemies of India" and speaking its language.
Mark Hughes was identified on national TV as a possible suspect after he was seen carrying assault rifle.
One of the women later succumbed to injuries in the hospital.
An Indian man was shot when he failed to answer a question on Islam asked by Somalian militants who were holding hostages after killing 68 people at an upmarket mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
At least four militants belonging to two rebel groups were killed in Assam in two separate encounters with security forces on Wednesday morning.
The army has killed five militants of Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit in north Kashmir's forest area during the ongoing operations launched Monday last.
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One civilian and two militants were killed in a nightlong gunfight in south Kashmir Kulgam district.
Vineet Kumar had changed several hard disks before the search operation at its headquarters in Sirsa.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted life to two death convicts in the 2002 American Center attack case in Kolkata with a rider that the mastermind will remain behind the bars till death and the other will spend at least 30 years in jail without remission.
The terrorists who had stormed the Pathankot air base were "well trained" and "strongly stocked" with arms and ammunitions to inflict heavy damage to the assets stationed there and that explains the long counter-terror operations going on against them, top government sources said.
'Interns, fresh MBBS graduates, nursing students, young doctors and nurses have brought pride to their degrees and their oath by courageously donning the PPE and caring for patients.' 'They are the foot soldiers of this war.'
The Congress on Thursday hit back at Narendra Modi for calling Defence Minister A K Antony an "agent of Pakistan and enemy of India", saying such language can come only from a "traitor".
Two terrorists and an army jawan were killed in the latest gunbattle along the Line of Control in Kupwara, taking the number of militants killed in the six-day-long counter-infiltration operations in the north Kashmir district to 13.
"The meeting lasted 50 minutes," Jail Superintendent Shashikant Mishra told PTI.
Two AK-47 rifles, seven magazines, 134 rounds of bullet, one radio set, one GPS device and a large quantity of war-like store were recovered from the possession of the slain terrorists
Four militants, including three of Hizbul Mujahideen, were on Monday killed in two gunfights during search operations in the Kashmir valley, officials said.
'Crores are spent on Martyrs Day and on lighting candles, but people don't respect living soldiers who are heroes.'
Two terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of north Kashmir, taking the toll to eight in the last four days of counter-insurgency operations.
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