At places in the border districts of Barmer and Jaisalmer, people walked miles through the desert to cast their votes.
Heavily armed Naxals on Monday ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force patrol party in the jungles along the Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra border resulting in exchange of gunfire between the two sides.
Referring to state BJP president Dilip Ghosh's allegation that its workers were provoked by the police, he said, "They had carried arms. Is it then a provocation if the police took action? Action will be taken if there is any violation of law."
Three cops, including an officer, and a civilian were wounded in a powerful hand grenade blast in downtown Khanyar locality of the summer capital Srinagar on Wednesday evening.
Curfews like restrictions were imposed in more parts of Srinagar Monday to thwart a proposed separatist march.Early on Monday morning, police paramilitary and Central Reserve Police Force fanned out across the city restricting pedestrian and vehicular movement in Srinagar, which has been on the boil since Sunday last when a schoolboy was killed after being hit by a tear smoke shell.
Two officers of Deputy Commandant rank -- S Niwas and Prabhat Tripathi -- and three other men were injured in the blast suspected to be from an improvised explosive device hidden beneath the dirt track by the Naxals, officials said.
R C Tayal is expected to serve as NSG DG till August next year when he is scheduled for superannuation.
Under the provision of Section 92 of the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution, governor's rule is imposed for six months.
Six civilians and a paramilitary, central reserve police force (CRPF) trooper were wounded in a grenade explosion in the Magam chowk, 33 km from Srinagar in central Kashmir Budgam district this afternoon.
Big banners bearing messages like 'Dhanyawad Dilli' along with the image of the Aam Aadmi Party supremo were put up on Saturday in and around the venue ahead of the mega function which is 'open to public'.
"There is scope of reduction of troops is the Home Ministry's view. There are more than adequate forces in Kashmir and it can do with less central forces," Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said.
While they were cordoning-off a forested patch near Pariya village, the Naxals triggered an IED.
One person was injured on Sunday when police fired rubber bullets following clashes between protestors and security forces for the second day in north Kashmir Baramulla and adjoining Sopore towns.
Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar on Sunday to foil a Shia Muharram procession in the city even though small processions are being allowed in the city interior without any restrictions.
These zones are on the main roads of the district and closer to police, army and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force establishments, the official said.
When asked for a confirmation, BSF Director General M L Kumawat said: "The BSF has earlier played a leading role in anti-Naxal operations. We may go to Naxal-hit areas whenever ordered."
A total of 3,30,27,661 people had applied to be included in the NRC. Of them, 3,11,21,004 have been included in the document and 19,06,657 excluded.
Two paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force troopers were wounded in a powerful hand-grenade explosion in uptown Karan Nagar area of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar on Thursday evening.
Two powerful explosions rocked north Kashmir's Sopore town on Tuesday evening injuring one policeman.
Kashmir is shut for the second consecutive day following strict curfew-like restrictions imposed by authorities to prevent the separatist march to the historic Jamia mosque in old city.
Life in Kashmir has come to a grinding halt following imposition of an indefinite curfew in the wake of the death of a 28-year-old in firing by the paramilitary central reserve police force in the old city.
Three militants, two of them foreign ones, were killed in a fierce encounter between security forces and militants in south Kashmir's area of Tral early on Monday.
The J&K chief minister called the firing unpardonable and promised action against those guilty. Mukhtar Ahmad reports.
One person was killed and two others wounded when paramilitary troops allegedly opened fire at villagers protesting power shortage in Boniyar village of north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Monday afternoon.
He asserted his force was as competent as the CBI to probe the Kathua rape and murder case.
The chief said that the reason for the fall is because of the combined efforts of NIA, state police and security forces.
Troops of the Central Reserve Police Force, deployed extensively for anti-Naxal and counter-insurgency operations, are suffering from a "lot of stress" because of long periods of deployment, the chief of the paramilitary said in New Delhi on Monday.
China's ruling Communist Party has appointed Wang Junzheng, sanctioned by the US, Britain, EU and Canada for his alleged role in the human rights violations against Uygur Muslims in Xinjiang, as the head of its party unit in the sensitive Himalayan region of Tibet.
Two cops were killed in a terrorist hit-and-run attack on the Jammu and Kashmir police outside the district court complex in south Kashmir Pulwama town on Monday afternoon.
Restrictions were imposed on public movement on early Saturday in areas falling under nine police stations in the old city of Srinagar to scuttle a separatist rally and construction of 'martyr's wall' by the moderate separatist conglomerate, All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
Gandhi said the prime minister continued shooting for a film till even three hours after news of the Pulwama terror strike came in.
"Two militants of Jaish-e-Mohammed hiding inside the house began indiscriminate automatic gunfire at the security forces. The cordon around the house was further tightened, resulting in a sustained firefight at the end of which both militants were killed," a senior police officer said in Srinagar. Arms and ammunition,including two AK-47 rifles and two magazines were recovered from the encounter site.
The restrictions were imposed by the authorities as the separatist Coordination Committee had announced that it would form a human chain from Saddar court complex in Lal Chowk to High Court complex to protest the landing of Indian troops in the state on October 27, 1947.
The operation had to be suspended on Thursday evening because of darkness as the security forces maintained a tight cordon around the hotel building to ensure that the holed up militants did not escape.
Stung by the death of a student in north Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday directed the power development department to put in all efforts to mitigate the hardships faced by the people in the valley owing to power shortage.
Here are other controversial 'babas' who were given the Z-category security, though later, it was withdrawn from some.
Hollande will be arriving in Chandigarh on January 24 where he is expected to be received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Jolted by the militant attack on Minister of State for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar on Sunday evening in Srinagar, the security situation in Kashmir was reviewed at a high level meeting on Monday.
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.
Restrictions continued in parts of Srinagar city for second day on Tuesday following the death of a youth in security forces firing.
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