The macabre deed was done by militants of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen.
The policemen were attacked when they were returning from Beoli Koti in Doda district after investigating a case.
The Centre and state governments have shied away from highlighting the ISI's attempts to displace Hindus and create corridors of sympathetic demography to further their designs especially along the communication arteries from Jammu to the Kashmir Valley.
Militants kidnapped Mariam Begum from her house in Manoh village in Doda district of Jammu region on July 4 and let her off last night.
More than 40 per cent of the 908 candidates contesting the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir are Independents, leading to claims that a large number of them have been propped up by the Bharatiya Janata Party to divide votes.
With Monday's court order, the total number of proclaimed offenders in Kishtwar stands at 36, they said.
"Give up arms and come for talks or our forces will hunt you down," the home minister said in election rallies in Jammu and Kashmir.
GMC principal Shashi Sudhan Sharma also requested senior superintendent of police, Jammu, to take all precautionary measures, including deployment of additional police personnel around the hostel and college premises, to avoid any law and order problem.
A team of Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested a youth from Shimla belt in Himachal Pradesh for allegedly raping girls on the pretext of providing them with jobs.
The BJP has emerged the second largest party by winning 29 constituencies in the maiden assembly polls post abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, improving its all-time high tally of 25 seats recorded in 2014 elections.
There are 78 such people in the village, of which 41 are women and 30 children aged three to 15 years.
Reliance on technical intelligence has not been fruitful as terrorists use online activity to mislead authorities. Officials feel that there is an urgent need for heightened surveillance to counter foreign terrorists, especially in the Jammu region.
The Jammu zone Inspector General Danish Rana said that the encounter took place on early Thursday morning in which two SPOs, who had deserted the police force in September and joined militants, were eliminated.
Three people were killed and a portion of a major highway was washed away in a cloudburst that struck Baggar village of Doda district in Jammu region late on Wednesday. Pawan Kotwal, divisional commissioner of Jammu, told rediff.com that rescue efforts were going on in the area to recover the victims' bodies and repair the road.He said the cloudburst washed away several shops and vehicles. It has cut off the twin hilly districts of Doda and Kishtwar, said Kotwal.
Incidentally, 164 of the total 356 candidates in the fray from the 43 assembly seats of Jammu region got less votes than none of the above, which gives an option to voters to reject all candidates in a constituency.
Security forces on Friday gunned down three Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists, including a district commander of the outfit, during an encounter in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said in Jammu.
The recent terror acts are a sign of our enemy's desperation, he said, in an apparent reference to Pakistan.
The terrorist who was identified as Mohammad Hussain Khateeb is a resident of Bhaderwah in Doda.
Sources said 14 persons were injured when militants tossed a grenade at a rally of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bhaderwah town on Wednesday afternoon.
Security forces on Friday averted a major tragedy by detecting and defusing two RDX fitted improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Police said terrorists hurled a grenade near the Doda bus stand, injuring 16 persons.
The army on Monday safely rescued 11 state government employees trapped in snow in the mountainous Doda district of Jammu region.
The violence that is rapidly engulfing large parts of Jammu and Kashmir, set off by a controversial government decision to grant a tract of land to a temple trust in Kashmir, threatens to totally disrupt the already tenuous inter-communal relations in the region.
The accident took place at the Tungi-Morh in the Chowki Chora belt of the district, the officials said, adding that the bus rolled around 150 feet down into the gorge.
It has met 20 such delegations and members of the public from Ramban, Rajouri, Poonch, Kishtwar, Kathua and Doda districts.
The Army and the police have created a data bank and prepared a directory of top militant commanders, their outfits and areas of operation in twin districts of Doda and Kishtwar for surgical and area-specific operations. The forces have recently launched operations to eliminate top militant leadership of Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashker-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohmmad and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami in the twin districts.
Gazi, who was active in militancy since 1998, handed over one AK rifle alongwith three magazines and 90 rounds, three wireless sets, one pouch and some other materials.
Launching an investigation in connection with the recovery of a grenade in Doda's new bus stand on May 25, the police arrested one LeT militant Fareed Ahmed Sheikh of Basti Bhaderwah, Doda SSP Mahor Singh said.
A road accident in the hilly Doda district claimed 19 lives and left one critically injured on Friday morning.
At least five passengers were killed and 15 others wounded when a mini-bus met with a tragic accident in hilly Doda district of Jammu region on Friday afternoon.
Besides disclosing in their affidavits, candidates have to prominently declare criminal cases they are facing, if any, thrice in newspapers in print as well on television, he said, adding that political parties too have to publish within three days of nomination why a candidate with criminal background was selected. "You (political parties) have to tell the public whether you did not get any (other) candidate and why was it necessary to select them (those with criminal background)," he said.
Nine persons were killed and 13 others wounded, when a passenger bus rolled down to a deep gorge in the hilly Doda district of Jammu on Saturday.
In April, the JKLF announced "a three-month long Safare-Azadi to cover the entire Valley to press for the inclusion of people of the state in the ongoing peace process between the two south Asian nuclear neighbours, India and Pakistan".
Several deaths were reported across the country due to rain-related incidents like lightning strikes and drowning.
Major Shekhawat and the jawan were killed in an encounter with terrorists in Doda district.
India agreed to give up the Poonch salient as well as Uri. To the north India also proposed to give up land in the Gurez sector giving the entire Neelam/Kinshanganga valley to Pakistan. In return India sought control of the post dominating Kargil town, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
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