A high alert has been sounded along the Line of Control in Kashmir Valley as infiltration from across the border has seen a sudden spurt with terror groups including banned LeT and JeM believed to have sent nearly 20-25 cadres in the last 10 weeks.
The assailants fired upon Javeed Ahmad Dar near his residence at Brazloo Jageer area of the south Kashmir district at around 4.30 pm, officials said.
The Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance has approached regulator for a dialogue to understand the concern raised by it
An NIA court on Thursday convicted Jammu and Kashmir separatist leader Yasin Malik after he pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, before the court in a case related to alleged terrorism and secessionist activities that disturbed the Kashmir Valley in 2017.
The Pakistan leg-spinner has been handed an assistant coaching role for next month's Champions Trophy in India.
Pakistan are confident they can get Shabbir Ahmed's one-year suspension overturned after filing an appeal with the ICC
The Pakistani fast bowler will appear for a biomechanics test on Dec. 9 on his suspect bowling action.
According to BMC, debris removal operations are still on at the collapse site of 'Altaf'
Altaf Ahmed Lal, country head of the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) in India, has quit and so have a few other key officials at the American drug regulator's India office.
Inspections only in domestic authorities' presence, visiting US drug regulator told
A government employee belonging to the Kashmir Pandit community was shot dead by suspected militants at his office in the Chadoora area of Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, officials said in Srinagar.
Separatist leader Mohammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), before a Delhi court in a case related to alleged terrorism and secessionist activities that disturbed the Kashmir valley in 2017, court sources said.
An independent Bowling Review Group of the ICC upheld Shabbir Ahmed's 12-month ban from international cricket.
Pakistan Cricket Board will try to save sinking career of fast bowler Shabbir Ahmed by consulting Australian specialists
Margaret A Hamburg, the first commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) to visit India officially, will meet heads of major domestic pharma companies such as Ranbaxy, Wockhardt, Cadila Healthcare and Lupin in New Delhi.
Two Lashker-e-Toiba militants were killed in a gunbattle in Doda district, official sources said on Sunday. On a tip off, army troops and police launched a search operation in Bikhrain area of the district on Saturday evening. During the operation, a gunbattle took place between the militants and troops in which both the ultras were killed. The slain militants have been identified as Altaf Hussain and Irshad Ahmed.
The Pakistani paceman will be allowed to resume his international career after serving out a one-year ban for an illegal action.
Banned Pakistan paceman Shabbir Ahmed had his bowling action cleared by biomechanics experts in Australia.
The probe agency said the 12,794-page chargesheet has been filed against 12 persons including Hafiz Saeed, the head of banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba, and Hizbul Mujahideen head Syed Salahuddin for conspiring to wage war against the government (Section 121 of Indian Penal Code) by carrying out terrorist and secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
Shaikh Mohammed Muzamil, acquitted by a special POTA court in the Ghatkopar bomb blast case, surrendered on Tuesday before the trial court which took him into custody.
Security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to track down the assailants but no arrests have been made so far, the officials said on Monday.
A Chinese pistol, a wireless set and some documents were recovered from the militants, who were identified as Altaf Hussain and Aftab Ahmed.
The incident, which has sent jitters in the police machinery, took place in Bijbehara, 50 kilometres south of Srinagar, when constable Shakoor Ahmed failed to report for duty for two days.
Three other terrorists, believed to be severely injured during the gunfight, managed to escape.
The Valley, which was brought under a virtual curfew with communication networks snapped on August 5 after the government abrogated special status to Jammu and Kashmir, has seen little difference in the last seven weeks as public transport is still not available and schools waiting for students to collect assignments.
The deputy superintendent of police's arrest has raised questions about the role of collaborators in terror attacks.
Two soldiers were injured in the initial firing, an army official said, adding that the cordon has been strengthened.
Major portfolios like home, finance and education were on Tuesday allocated to People's Democratic Party ministers by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed who will himself hold the charge of home ministry.
Mukhtar Ansari's Quami Ekta Dal's merger with the Samajwadi Party last year had triggered turmoil in that party.
'It is mind-boggling that a party can be in rigor mortis even after numerous electoral defeats,' observes Ramesh Menon.
A teenager was shot dead by security forces in the Kashmir Valley on Saturday during a strike called by hardline Hurriyat Conference against the recent killing of two youths in an army operation in Tral, prompting the authorities to register a murder case and order a magisterial probe.
The Opposition National Conference and Congress lawmakers on Friday disrupted proceedings in both houses of the Jammu and Kashmir legislature, accusing the government of misleading people on the issue of transfer of power projects to the state, and created ruckus in the assembly as Speaker directed marshalling out of some members.
A combative Congress president also hit out at the Centre saying it should not try to frighten them and that they 'would not allow democratic institutions to be weakened or destroyed'
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