With a decision on the Telangana issue imminent, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the situation in Andhra Pradesh is peaceful.
'The Pakistani military has encouraged and supported terrorist organisations, especially in Kashmir, as a means of waging proxy war against the Indian military and the country's superior economic resources.' 'The evidence is irrefutable with the recent killing of 46 paramilitary troops being just the latest example.'
CM Yogi Adityanath said the BJP was getting widespread support from the people.
Three paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force troopers were killed while another was wounded in a fratricidal shootout inside a heavily guarded camp of the CRPF in South Kashmir's Kulgam town late on Sunday night.
The court asked the Centre to explain why the injuries suffered by people are above the knees.
Authorities imposed curfew in north Kashmir Sopore and Baramulla towns and curfew-like-restrictions in the summer capital Srinagar to foil separatist called sit-ins and protests Wednesday.
An official said the attack appears to be a reprisal for killing of several Lashkar terrorists.
India needs to shed its policy of lethargy and inhibitions to engage the Taliban with an intent to maintain its influence in Afghanistan. This would not just put a spanner in Pakistani designs, but also incentivise the Taliban not to be the puppets of GHQ, Rawalpindi, asserts Colonel Nikhil Apte (retd), who served on the Af-Pak desk at the Military Operations Directorate.
Security forces on Thursday seized a whopping 4,600 kgs of Ammonium Nitrate, used for making improvised explosive devices and bombs, from Bihar's Rohtas district.
Officials said the incident occurred at about 3:00 am when a Maoist squad mounted sniper fire on a CRPF camp in the jungles of Rangareddy in Gangloor area of the district.
A Central Reserve Police Force trooper and a civilian received serious injuries in a hand grenade explosion in south Kashmir's Pulwama town on Tuesday afternoon.
Two Hizbul Mujaheedin militants including a top commander were killed in an encounter in the Mahore area of Reasi district in Jammu region on Wednesday morning.
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper killed himself with his service rifle inside a CRPF camp at Hariganwan, 40 km from Srinagar in north Kashmir Ganderbal district on Friday.
The court said 'the public order situation in Manipur is, at best, an internal disturbance and there is no threat to the security of the country or a part thereof either by war or an external aggression or an armed rebellion'.
Terrorists struck again in summer capital Srinagar carrying out yet another grenade attack in the Habba Kadal locality of the city injuring three persons.
In the unabated violence two more persons were killed and three others wounded in security force's firing in Kashmir on Saturday evening mounting the toll since June 11 to 57.
"Three civilians and a CRPF trooper were injured in the explosion. The injured were taken to hospital for treatment," the spokesman said.
A sub-inspector of the Andhra Pradesh's counter-Maoist force was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra, the highest peacetime gallantry award of the country, as India celebrated its 65th Republic Day on Sunday.
Five CRPF troopers were wounded in the initial attack, according to a senior police officer in Srinagar. The injured were taken to hospital for treatment.
Five persons, including four security men and a civilian, were wounded in a powerful hand-grenade explosion in the Sarafkadal locality of Srinagar on Friday afternoon.
The slain militants are reported to belong to the district.
About 300 to 400 Naxalites carried out the attacks on the camps of the paramilitary personnel at Chintangufa, where 75 CRPF men and a policeman were killed in the worst Maoist strike two weeks ago, Kanker Lanka, Potampalli and Bheji in quick succession beginning at around 1930 hours, sources said.
Four persons, including a 60-year old man, were killed and a dozen others received bullet injuries in fresh violence in Kashmir on Friday.
Militants attacked Sopore police station in Baramulla district of North Kashmir on Tuesday morning.
North Kashmir's Sopore town continued to simmer with protests and shutdown for the fourth day on Monday following the militant ambush that left two people dead and six others wounded.
Director General of Police Vishwa Ranjan said the state police does not have an answer as to why the CRPF was being repeately ambushed by Maoists. "If the CRPF is being repeatedly being ambushed, are we to answer for that? What does responsibility mean? Responsibility means making available whatever facilities possible. Responsibility means we together deploy the forces. Responsibility does not mean we will teach them how to walk,"the DGP told NDTV.
The government imposed restrictions under Section 144 CrPC in Srinagar district.
The strike called by the two groups of the separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference brought in a complete shutdown and undeclared curfew in the Valley on Monday, a day after violence left one person dead and over a dozen people injured in police firing Srinagar.
Two paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force troopers were killed in a militant strike in north Kashmir's Pattan town on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway on Wednesday morning.
The suspect was hiding in a house in Kakori area. The densely populated neighbourhood was cordoned off and at least 20 commandos were involved in the operation, police said.
A trooper of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force shot dead two of his colleagues and wounded two others inside the heavily guarded CRPF camp at Kokernag in south Kashmir Anantnag district on Friday night.
One civilian was seriously wounded in a powerful hand grenade explosion in the heart of summer capital Srinagar on Tuesday afternoon.
Three new categories -- all asymptomatic healthcare workers working in non-COVID hospitals/areas of COVID hospitals/blocks, asymptomatic frontline workers such as surveillance workers deployed in containment zones and paramilitary/police personnel involved in COVID-19 related activities -- have now been included.
Home Minister P Chidambaram will make an on-the-spot assessment and review the situation in Chhattisgarh after the Maoists carried out the deadliest attack and killed 76 CRPF personnel.
Police said militants lobbed a grenade at a hotel building in Dalgate, occupied by troopers of 162nd battalion of the CRPF. "The grenade exploded inside the hotel complex injuring six troopers. Five of the injured troopers were evacuated to Soura medical institute for specialized treatment," a senior CRPF officer said.
Two central reserve police force troopers and five civilians were wounded in a powerful hand grenade explosion in the north Kashmir's Sopore town after the Friday prayers.
Four people, including three paramilitary central reserve police force troopers were injured, when terrorists attacked a CRPF picket guarding the State Bank of India building in the north Kashmir's Sopore town on Friday afternoon with a hand grenades and gunfire.
The bodies of personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force, who were killed in a Maoist attack in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, were brought to the state capital Raipur on Sunday, where they will be given a state funeral.
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