The driver and the cleaner of the truck escaped when the truck was stopped by police and CRPF personnel. But the occupants opened fire. One terrorist was killed in retaliatory fire. 2 others who escaped were neutralised later.
Khandwa MP Nandkumar Singh Chauhan had also stirred up a controversy earlier this year when he claimed Pakistan's hand in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl at Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir.
As Pakistan resorted to fresh firing from across the border, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said if anyone dares to cast an evil eye on India, security forces will give a fitting response.
'If prices of everyday consumption don't come down, employment doesn't pick up, 2020 will not be a happy year for anyone but the super rich,' notes Sherna Gandhy.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley was on Sunday detained as he arrived at the airport here on his way to communal violence-hit Kishtwar, which was made out of bounds for political leaders by the Jammu and Kashmir government.
Modi said the wave in favour of the BJP was stronger this time than in 2014.
Odisha minister Yogendra Behara couldn't buckle his own sandals at an Independence Day event in Kendujhar on Monday, so he made his personal security officer bend down and do it for him.
The first-ever district development council (DDC) elections will be held in eight phases to elect 280 members in 20 districts from November 28 to December 22.
Keen to fight an Indian, the 32-year-old two-time World Champion has agreed to switch category to clash with Goyat.
In the past, 'shallow infiltration' has been carried out by terror groups, in which either some army men were killed or damage was caused to an army installation, the officials said.
Water flowing into Pakistan from the Sutlej, Ravi and Beas can be stopped only if three dam projects on this side of the border are completed.
'India needs offensive and defensive security measures to protect itself.'
In Jammu region, three districts of Jammu, Samba and Kathua are in red zone.
Jammu and Kashmir's mainstream political parties, including the National Conference and the PDP, formed the Gupkar alliance on October 15 for restoration of special status of the erstwhile state and also to initiate a dialogue between all the stakeholders on the issue.
A Jammu and Kashmir minister belonging to Congress has stoked a controversy by suggesting that Kashmir be granted "azadi", remarks that embarassed his party that termed them as his personal view.
Four Pakistani rangers were killed in Border Security Force's strong retaliation after a jawan of the force lost his life in heavy firing from the other side on a patrol on Wednesday along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district.
Blood splattered compounds, smashed window panes and demolished roofs are all that are left of houses in border hamlets which have been battered in Pakistani shelling in the last four days. A smell of gunpowder lingers in these villages whose residents are living in increasing fear. In all, 12 people, including five security personnel, have been killed and over 60 others injured in Pakistani firing from across the border in Jammu since Thursday.
A Border Security Force jawan was injured in firing from across the International Border at Bobiyan in Kathua district in Jammu on Tuesday.
The poll process for the second tier of the Panchayati Raj system will be completed by November 5, he said.
With infiltration showing upward curve, the Jammu and Kashmir police has identified 21 major infiltration routes of militants along Indo-Pak border in the state. "We have surveyed and identified 21 major infiltration routes along Indo-Pak border...This will help security agencies to pin down infiltrating militants...," a senior police officer told PTI.
Teenager Faizan Rafiq, whose detention under the Public Safety Act for his alleged involvement in stone-pelting had created a furore in Jammu and Kashmir, was on Tuesday released from a jail in Kathua district on humanitarian grounds on the order of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
A villager was washed away in flash floods while 19 others were rescued from the swirling waters in Jammu and Poonch districts early on Friday morning.
Pakistan dropped weapons and some cash in Indian currency using a drone in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Saturday said, announcing the arrest of three Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists who had picked up the consignment near the Line of Control.
Bharatiya Janata Party workers have begun their attempt to cross into Jammu from Lakhanpur in Punjab.
In case of rape of a girl under 16 years, the minimum punishment has been increased from 10 years to 20 years, extendable to imprisonment for rest of life, which means jail term till the convict's "natural life".
Parvathy Nair's poem about the little girl who went to graze horses and never returned has moved many Indians to tears.
Cross-border firing again erupted along the Indo-Pak border on a forward post in Hirangar sub-sector of Kathua district drawing retaliation from Border Security Forces troops, officials said on Thursday.
The 13,500-page chargesheet names Masood Azhar, his brothers -- Abdul Rauf and Ammar Alvi -- and his nephew Mohammed Umer Farooq, who had infiltrated into India in 2018 and was subsequently killed in one of the encounters in South Kashmir.
The JeM terrorists also carried 'armoured piercing steel core ammunition' which can go through Level 3 protection bulletproof vehicles that police and other security forces use, they said. The ammunition was in large quantity and could have posed a grave threat, top police officials said.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had a miraculous escape on Tuesday night when the engine of his official vehicle caught fire filling the entire jeep with smoke.
The Special Investigation Team of the Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday arrested three police officers, including a former district police chief, on the charges of tampering with evidence in a sensational murder case in Jammu last month.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday paid an ex-gratia relief of Rs 1 lakh to the next of kin of Bhim Singh, a member of the National Disaster Management Force team, who perished in a chopper crash in Uttarakhand while carrying out rescue operations.
Investigations into the escape of dreaded Lashker-e-Tayiba terrorist Mohammed Naveed Jhatt from a busy hospital has brought to the fore lapses at different stages, especially the failure of the prosecution wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police as well as the state home department over hurriedly issuing orders for transfer of the accused to a central jail from Kathua in the Jammu region, it has emerged.
Curfew remained in force on Saturday in violence-hit Kishtwar district, even as protests against Friday's communal clashes there rocked Jammu and adjoining districts, where normal life was disrupted due to a bandh.
After nine days of heavy firing and mortar shelling from across the border, firing de-escalated along the 192-km long border in Jammu frontier overnight with Pakistan opening fire on four border out posts in Kathua district.
As thousands of civilians affected by the Pakistani shelling in the RS Pura sector thronged to shelter camps, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah accompanied by his team went on to inspect the lodging facilities and quality of food provided to them.
Here is a timeline of the major attacks that have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir since 1999 till date
Constable Devender Singh was hit by a stray bullet through the loophole of his picket and could not survive the injury.
Each of these families will get around Rs 5.5 lakh as aid, a senior official said.
Surendra Singh said that children should not be given undue freedom and asked parents not to give mobile phones to them.
