A huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosives were recovered in the Kashmir Valley and three militant sympathisers were also arrested in separate operations, officials said on Tuesday.
Security forces on Tuesday averted a major tragedy with the timely detection of a powerful IED on Srinagar-Kupwara road, official said.
Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma on Monday visited the Tangdhar sector of the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
The gun battle broke out between terrorists and security forces in Wuder Bala area of Handwara, 95 km from Srinagar, in the wee hours after Army launched a search operation in the area, Defence Spokesman Lt Colonel J S Brar said.
Militants late on Friday night gunned down a father and his son in Rajwar area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
The army on Monday said Pakistan had a "direct role" in the mutilation of a soldier's body along the Line of Control in Machhil sector of Kupwara district on November 22.
The 40-day period marks the harshest phase of the winter in the Kashmir valley.
Holding that the government has to have courage to take a decision on the issue of Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday questioned the need for "protection" to the army in areas where they have not operated for years.
Three militants of Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit were killed in an ongoing search operation in the Handwara area of north Kashmir Kupwara district.
Militants on Wednesday shot dead a youth and injured another, who were working as porters with the army, in Keran area of Kupwara district near the Line of Control in Kashmir, the army said.
A junior commissioned officer of the army was killed and two troopers were wounded in a fierce gunfight with a group of infiltrating militants in Shamsnag area on the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Wednesday.
Security forces seize solar missiles in Valley. A squad of Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police spotted these solar missiles, positioned for an offensive action in Gujjarpati forest area of Kupwara district.
The Army killed two militants who were trying to infiltrate into India in Kupwara district on Wednesday morning.A group of heavily-armed militants tried to sneak into the Indian side at Tangdhar, 140 kms from Srinagar, a defence spokesman said. On noticing their movement, troops challenged them and in the subsequent encounter, two militants were killed.The encounter was still going on when the last reports came in.
Five militants and an army trooper were killed and four others wounded in an encounter in north Kashmir's Kupwara district. The gunfight erupted early on Friday after troops of counter insurgency Rashtriya Rifles and the police jointly surrounded a house, acting on a specific tip-off about the presence of a group of militant commanders inside it. "The operation is over. We have recovered the bodies of the militants," said a spokesperson.
Security personnel killed four top militants of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Tayiba but lost one army jawan in a day-long fierce gunbattle in the border district of Kupwara in north Kashmir on Friday.
Troops noticed suspicious movement along the LoC and challenged the intruders, leading to a gunfight.
At least five militants of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba terror outfit and three security officials, including an army official and two policemen, were killed in a gun battle in the dense forest in Kralpora area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara District.
Braving inclement weather, Army aviation pilots on Monday airlifted the five injured soldiers from Macchil to Srinagar for specialised treatment. Unfortunately, all five brave hearts attained martyrdom, an army official said.
Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire yet again in the Chakan-de-Bagh sector of the Line of Control in Poonch district Monday.
Two children and a teenager were critically injured in a powerful blast in Margi Devar village of frontier Kupwara district early on Thursday morning.The explosion occurred while they were fiddling with an explosive device they had found in the village.The injured were identified as Adil, 18, Mashooq, 14 and Nazia, 11, who are members of the same family. The police officer said the group had found the explosive device in the village and brought it home.
If this trend continues, 2018 may end up as the worst year in terms of number of youths joining various terror groups, according to the officials.
Curfew was on Wednesday clamped in four districts of Kashmir Valley to foil a march by the separatists to the United Nations office in Srinagar demanding withdrawal of troops from Jammu and Kashmir.
An army jawan committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district on Friday, officials said.
The police on Saturday detained Independent Member of Legislative Assembly Sheikh Abdul Rashid after he tried to take out a protest march against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public rally in Srinagar.
The areas of Srinagar placed under curfew include police station in the jurisdiction of Rainawari, Nowhatta, Khanyar, MR Gunj, Safakadal, Parimpora, and police division Qamarwari and Bemina, a police spokesman said. Curfew has also been imposed in Pampore town of Pulwama district in south Kashmir and Baramulla, Sopore, Kupwara and Handwara towns in north Kashmir
Ignoring the separatists' call for boycott, residents of Qoimoh block in south Kashmir on Wednesday turned out in numbers to cast votes in the first phase of panchayat elections, which are being held in Jammu and Kashmir after a gap of 10 years.
A total of 3,372 nominations have been filed for 1,145 wards. The next phases take place on 10th, 13th and 16th October.
A militant was killed and three army jawans injured in three different encounters with terrorists in Bandipora and Kupwara district along the Line of Control in north Kashmir, official sources said on Tuesday.
On sustained questioning, the SSP said, the trio admitted they are working for Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist outfit and were luring young boys into militancy.
Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara district of north Kashmir in the wee hours of Monday morning, a police spokesman said. The encounter broke out when security forces confronted a group of militants at Bhawan forests in Zachaldara area of Handwara, 95 kms from Srinagar, late on Sunday night, the spokesman said. Two militants were killed in the encounter which continued till the wee hours of Monday, he said.
Chidambaram, who arrived in the north Kashmir town of Baramulla from Kargil in Ladakh region, took stock of the situation in Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara -- the three districts along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Valley which witnessed violent protests during the past four months.
Two officers -- Lt Colonel Mukesh Jha and Major Amardeep Singh -- are among the five injured army personnel.
Police fired warning shots and lobbed teargas shells to disperse stone-pelting protestors during two-hour curfew relaxation in old Anantnag town on Saturday morning even as authorities imposed curfew in two more areas of Trehgam and Kupwara towns after agitation by locals.
Colonel Santosh Mahadik died during an operation in Kupwara last year. His wife Swati Mahadik says joining the Indian Army allows her to keep his memory alive.
There will be eight more phases of Panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
A junior commissioned officer and a militant were killed in a fierce gunfight in the forest area of frontier Kupwara district on Tuesday.
Most places in Kashmir continued to reel under intense cold with the night temperature staying below the freezing point, while Kargil town in Ladakh region registered the season's coldest night at minus 9.2 degrees Celsius.
An army jawan was also injured in the encounter that began on Saturday night after troops launched a search operation in Khumhair forests of Handwara tehsil.
Curfew in many parts and separatist-sponsored strike disrupted normal life for the 30th straight day on Sunday in Kashmir Valley where violence has so far left 54 persons dead and more than 6000 others injured.
Five persons were wounded, one of them critically, in police firing in the curfew bound Maisuma locality of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar on Monday.
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