"In an encounter close to the Line of Control this evening, one solider was martyred and one terrorist was killed. The terrorists mutilated the body of the jawan before fleeing back into Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir under the cover of firing by Pakistan Army," an army spokesman said.
The area has been cordoned off and counter-operations are in progress.
The terrorists made an abortive bid during the night to infiltrate into the Indian side of the LoC in Machil sector in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, they added. The infiltrators were challenged and three of them were killed, the officials said.
Six armed foreign militants were killed on Monday and three armymen lost their lives in a fierce gunbattle that broke out along the Line of Control in Kupwara sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
These Army posts -- some at the highest altitude of about 12,000 feet -- are the first line of defense against the intruders in these infamous, traditional routes of infiltration. These infiltration routes converge at the mighty Shamsabari range.
For the soldiers at this frontier, it's a battle that has to be fought on two fronts -- hostile neighbour and harsh winter, which is approaching.
Search operations were on in the area.
The Army foiled two infiltration bids and engaged terrorists in a gun battle in north Kashmir Kupwara district killing seven terrorists. A defence spokesman said in Srinagar that troops foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in the Tangdhar sector of north Kashmir Kupwara district, killing three militants.
Four militants were killed as army troops foiled an infiltration bid near the Line of Control in Keran sector of Kupwara district in north Kashmir. The troops foiled an infiltration bid by militants from across the Line of Control in Keran sector on Friday, triggering a gun-battle that lasted for more than 36 hours, during which four militants were killed. The bodies of all the slain militants have been recovered along with a cache of arms and ammunition.
The JCO was hit by a Pakistani sniper near the LoC in Nowgam sector and later succumbed to injuries, an army spokesman said in Srinagar.
The firing assault comes in retaliation to ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops in the Keran sector earlier in the day.
Dr Ruvaida Salam who hails from the border district of Kupwara, currently works as a manager at the Department of Industries and Commerce in Jammu & Kashmir.
The Indian Army killed three infiltrating militants in two separate encounters on the Line of Control in north Kashmir Kupwara border district on Thursday. A defence spokesman in Srinagar said two heavily armed groups of infiltrating militants were challenged by the army in the Machil and Keran sectors of the LOC in Kupwara district Thursday morning.
The defence minister will review the security situation along the Line of Control in the Valley and Line of Actual Control in the Ladakh region.
The defence spokesman said alert troops of the 9 JAK Rifles noticed suspicious movement in the Machil sector of Kupwara.
The official said that all the militants were foreign nationals.
"Our troops retaliated in adequate measure to the Pakistani aggression," an army official said.
Three militants were killed on Tuesday as army troops foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in poll-bound Kupwara district of north Kashmir, a defence spokesman said.
The dead body of Army soldier Rahul Kumar of 23 GDR Battalion, martyred in the Kupwara encounter on Saturday night, was on Tuesday brought back to his native village Bulandhshahr in Uttar Pradesh.
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On a specific input, the security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Reban area of south Kashmir district, a police spokesperson said.
He said the encounter broke out when the police along with army launched a search and cordon operation in the area following specific information about the presence of some militants there.
Three weapons and other war-like stores have been recovered from the scene of the gunbattle
An Indian Army soldier died in an encounter near the Tangdhar sector of the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Tuesday night.
Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma on Monday visited the Tangdhar sector of the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
Manmohan Singh and Musharraf felt that what they were embarking upon, if successful, could lead to a future of boundless potential for the two countries and for the relationship that was hard to foresee from the prism of the existing situation and the historical position and orthodox ideas on both sides.
Andrabi, the founder of the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, an Islamist separatist organisation is also a member of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
Four militants were on Saturday killed in an encounter with security forces near the Line of Control in Tangdhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
One junior commissioned officer was killed and an army trooper injured when security forces foiled an infiltration bid in the Machil sector of the Line of Control on Saturday morning.
An army jawan was killed and another injured in an ongoing operation to flush out militants near Line of Control in Kalaroos sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
This is the second such incident of mutilation of the body of an Indian soldier on the LoC since October 29.
Four Indian Army personnel, a Border Security Force sub-inspector and six civilians were killed while four security forces personnel and eight civilians were injured in the firing by Pakistan during the multiple ceasefire violations between Gurez and Uri sectors in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
In the wreath laying ceremony for the slain Colonel Santosh Mahadik in Srinagar, all the officers and the jawans of the 41 RR paid their tributes to him.
The Army has foiled an attempt to push in arms and ammunition by Pakistan from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of Jammu and Kashmir and recovered a cache, including four AK 74 rifles.
The army has foiled an infiltration bid by terrorists along the Line of Control in Tangdhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir, killing an ultra.
Four heavily-armed terrorists were killed in a three-day counter-infiltration operation launched by Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Handwara area of north Kashmir, an army official said today.
Three militants were killed in an ongoing operation near the Line of Control in the Tangdhar sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Friday, according to a defence spokesperson.
A soldier and a terrorist were killed as Army foiled an infiltration bid near the Line of Control in Tangdhar sector of Kupwara district in Kashmir, a defence spokesman said in Jammu on Wednesday.
Two army personnel were killed due to heavy snowfall in Nougam Sector near the Line of Control in Kupwara district of north Kashmir on Friday. "Two jawans were killed due to weather vagary at Padam Post in Nougam sector," army spokesman Colonel B Pandey said.
Army on Sunday foiled an infiltration bid by heavily armed militants near the Line of Control in Tangdhar sector of Kashmir.
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