Members of two communities clashed after India's victory over Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Cup on Monday night, leaving 23 people injured in Rajouri border town and forcing authorities to impose prohibitory orders in the area.
A separatist sponsored protest shutdown on Tuesday paralysed life in Kashmir, even as fresh incidents of stone pelting re-occurred in parts of capital city Srinagar and other towns.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, Farooq Khan told UNI that army personnel of 43 Rashtriya Rifles along with state police, acting on a tip-off, cordoned off Raina Mohalla of Thanamandi for search operations.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police has registered an first information report against Health Minister Shabir Ahmad Khan for alleged sexual assault after a complaint by a woman doctor.
The government imposed restrictions under Section 144 CrPC in Srinagar district.
The ceasefire violation took place around 8:30 am. A JCO of the army and a BSF head constable were killed in the attack, a senior officer of the paramilitary force said.
In Jammu region, three districts of Jammu, Samba and Kathua are in red zone.
Poonch district of Jammu region recorded the highest turnout at 75.42 per cent. Ganderbal district recorded the highest polling in Kashmir valley at 56.28 per cent.
What the election demonstrated is that the BJP has a stranglehold on most of the Hindu votes in the Union territory, observes David Devadas.
Pakistani troops heavily shelled border hamlets and army posts along the LoC with mortar bombs for the eleventh consecutive day in two sectors of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, which witnessed two fresh ceasefire violations from across the border on Wednesday.
"Army is being withdrawn to save a government (in Jammu and Kashmir). But no such steps should be taken, which could push the country into a crisis," the BJP chief warned.
Just two days before Congress leader Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra is scheduled to reach Jammu, two back-to-back explosions rocked a busy locality on the outskirts of the city on Saturday, leaving nine people injured, officials said.
On the release of political leaders, the functionary said the administration is taking step-by-step decisions.
However, there has been an appreciable decline in the casualties of civilians and security forces in the terror attacks in the past nearly four years. Against 11 civilian killings from October 27, 2015 to August 4, 2019, there was a 63 per cent decrease with seven civilian killings reported post the abrogation of Article 370.
The recovery, first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir, was made by a police party at Chicka Kheit under Kandi police station.
Ravaging floods claimed 17 more lives in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday raising the toll to 37 even as evacuation of people to safer areas continued.
National Conference chief Omar Abdullah has termed the good turnout of voters during the first phase of assembly election as a positive indication towards a better future and stability of Jammu and Kashmir.Huge turnout of voters is an eye-opener and proves that the people of the state want Kashmir issue to be resolved, Omar said while addressing public meetings at Kalakote and Budhal in Rajouri district on Tuesday.
The businessman, who travelled to Delhi to attend a Tablighi Jamaat congregation, died on March 26 in a Srinagar hospital, 19 days after he set off for the national capital. He could have infected scores of people during his travels and about 300 people have been put under quarantine because of him, officials said.
The militants were irked at not finding the father of the girls at home.
Another soldier was seriously injured in the incident and was evacuated immediately to the Army Hospital at Rajouri, they said.
However, the Army, in a statement, said since Singh's cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot injury, no guard of honour or military funeral was provided, in accordance with the existing policy.
Immediately after the attack, people started assembling outside the residence of Parihar and refused entry of senior police officers, who were even manhandled.
Three militants trying to infiltrate into India and a special police officer were killed in separate encounters with security forces in Jammu region, defence sources said on Sunday.
Four Lashker-e-Tayiba militants were killed in a fierce gun battle between a group of ultras and the security forces in a forest area in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said.
Shelling and firing by Pakistani troops was "very heavy" in 2018, virtually making the 2003 India-Pakistan border truce "redundant", said officials.
An army major and a Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant were killed and a jawan injured in a gunbattle in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, a top army official said.
Over 100 persons have been arrested in Jammu and 11 in Kishtwar in connection with incidents of violence in the past few days, the Jammu and Kashmir government said on Monday.
Following the arrest of a top terrorist who had made a video of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval's office, it has come to light that Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad is planning a strike in Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbag Singh said on Sunday.
Facing flak over its alleged link with arrested Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorist Talib Hussain Shah, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to party's Jammu Minority Morcha president Sheikh Bashir after an order purportedly written by him about the appointment of Shah as official of the unit emerged on social media platforms.
In a separate attack, militants fired two rockets, one of which hit a house close to a police station at Kotranka in Rajouri district killing its owner, Mohammed Sharif, and injuring his wife, two sons and another relative.
Since 1950 successive governments have tried various options but failed to reduce alienation amongst the people, for different reasons, of Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh. It is best to accept this reality and let each region charter its own path, within the framework of the Indian Constitution, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
The bus was on its way to Rajouri from Prauri.
Flood fury on Sunday maintained its grip over Jammu and Kashmir, leaving 138 dead and many marooned as the swirling waters inundated the army cantonment, Civil Secretariat and the high court in Srinagar and snapped road and communication links.
The recoveries made from the gunned-down terrorist included two assault rifles along with two magazines and 234 rounds of bullets, five pistols with 10 magazines and 60 rounds, 15 hand grenades and 12 fuses for IEDs.
Over 40 people are missing after a bus carrying a marriage party, including the bride and groom, was washed away in flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Thursday.
Additional security personnel have been deployed on the ground and drones are being used for aerial surveillance, they said.
There will be eight more phases of Panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
A curfew was on Sunday clamped in three more districts of Udhampur, Samba and Kathua in Jammu region and army staged flag marches as tension prevailed following outbreak of communal violence in Kishtwar on Friday that left two persons dead and scores of others injured.
