Prime Minister Narendra Modi convened a high-level meeting at his residence on Tuesday morning to review the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
From one of Kashmir's worst trouble spots, Adeeba Tak emerges as a story of hope.
Normal life remained affected in Kashmir Valley for the 98th day due to the ongoing unrest.
An army captain, who was injured in an encounter with militants in Sopore town of Baramulla district, succumbed to injuries on Wednesday.The army officer was injured when militants opened indiscriminate fire on security forces, which had launched an operation in Model Town area of Sopore. The captain was shifted to a hospital in Srinagar for treatment where he succumbed to his wounds. The army is yet to identify him.The encounter is still going on.
Officials said the government has made necessary arrangements for opening of 190 primary schools in Srinagar city as security forces remained deployed in most of the Valley.
While confirming that the voice in the slideshow was that of Moosa, senior police officials did not rule out the possibility that the banned IS terror group was trying to create a base in the Valley.
A militant was on Wednesday gunned down in Baramulla in an encounter during which an armyman also lost his life.
There is a great danger of the government getting stampeded into actions in Kashmir that could result in long lasting damage, warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Three junior commissioned officers and two soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles will face disciplinary action in connection with the killing of two youths in Bomai-Sopore area on February 21, a defence spokesman said today.
Hundreds others were wounded many of whom received bullet and pellet injuries and are undergoing treatment in various hospitals.
Two terrorists were killed in an overnight gunfight in Hajin area of Bandipora district, officials said.
Bullet-riddled body of a Hizbul Mujahideen militant was found in a jungle on Saturday in north Kashmir, with police suspecting the hand of break-away Hizb faction Lashkar-e-Islam.
With floods rendering the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway inoperational for 12 consecutive days on Monday, Valley residents are facing an acute shortage of essential commodities even as people in some areas of north and south Kashmir accused the administration of concentrating only on Srinagar city.
The earthquake epicentred in the Hindukush mountain range in Afghanistan struck at around 2.40 pm, sending ripples across several states like Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi- National Capital Region, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.
One person was killed in a clash between a mob and security forces in downtown Srinagar on Sunday evening, shattering the peace that was by and large witnessed in Kashmir through the day with curfew in force in the capital and two other towns.
The search operation turned into an encounter after the terrorists fired upon the security forces who retaliated, he said.
Curfew continued to cripple the Valley for the tenth day.
The identity of the terrorists was yet to be ascertained.
Voicing concern over recruitment of educated Kashmiri youths into terror outfits, a top army commander has said that eyes cannot be shut to the "tragedy" that "alienation and lack of opportunities" was driving local youngsters towards the gun and the Centre and the state government need to introspect to address these issues.
24-year-old Rifleman Yash Paul, a resident of Mantalai village in Udhampur lost his life in cross-LoC firing.
In the stone-pelting, SSP Doda, one SHO, one sub-inspector and two other police personnel were injured.
A terrorist was killed on Wednesday in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag district while another ultra was trapped in a cordon in Sopore area of north Kashmir, police said.
There has been a steady rise in the number of youth taking up arms in the Valley since 2014 onwards as compared to 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Singh said there is a large presence of terrorists across the Line of Control (LoC) but expressed confidence that the counter-infiltration grid will take care of the threat.
'It is a matter of concern. The number of forces on a 'naka' point is less and is normally in a remote area where they (terrorists) conceal themselves by coming along with civilians and then fire on the forces. We have faced losses and they have managed to flee a few times, but, we will soon find a response to this tactic and end this problem'
A youth was killed and three others injured as security forces opened fire in Kupwara district of Kashmir to disperse protesters who were pelting stones on an army camp.
'It should be of concern that some youth in Kashmir have started raising Daesh flags along with those of Pakistan.'
An unidentified terrorist was on Tuesday killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of North Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said.
With this death, the toll in the ongoing unrest in Kashmir has gone up to 69.
Najar was wanted for his alleged involvement in more than 50 killings
Desperate people waiting for a lift or walking on foot has become a common sight in the trouble-torn Kashmir Valley where public transport has remained suspended for the past 80 days.
An official said that the search operation turned into an encounter after terrorists fired upon the forces.
A top Lashkar-e-Toiba militant from Pakistan has been arrested in north Kashmir's Baramulla district.
The NIA says the Jammu and Kashmir Affectees Relief Fund Trust has in the last10 years collected huge sums of money which has been diverted to Pakistan based militant groups. Vicky Nanjappa reports
A police party was targeted in Sopore area of north Kashmir at their behest.
Aurangzeb was abducted and later killed by terrorists in Pulwama in June last year while he was on his way to home in Poonch for celebrating Eid.
'In times to come this will be considered a watershed event, but only if the establishment can see the flag which is up and the straws in the wind which are flying,' says Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
Raising slogans against Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and the administration, the demonstrators, mostly government employees posted in the troubled valley and their kin, demanded that they be provided adequate security or be transferred to Jammu. The employees also threatened en masse resignation from their jobs.
No one was injured in the attack, said officials.
As many as 160 terrorists were killed and 102 arrested in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
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