A 20-year-old youngster was gunned down by unidentified militants in the Arampora locality of the north Kashmir Sopore town on Sunday evening.
This is the first time that police officials of the rank of SSP or DSP have been arrested in connection with custodial killings or fake encounters since the militancy erupted in the state in the 1990s.
In Doda's Bhaderwah town, a few buildings developed cracks due to the tremors.
Two militants were killed in a fierce encounter in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Saturday.
Curfew was relaxed for three hours in parts of north Kashmir's Sopore town, 55 km from Srinagar, on Friday morning, a police spokesman said.
Two militants and a soldier were killed on Sunday in a gun battle during infiltration bids by ultras at Keran and Tangdhar sectors along the Line of Control in Kashmir while an army officer lost his life in a mishap during a search operation.
Suspected militants on Saturday shot dead a sarpanch in Sopore township of north Kashmir's Baramulla district.
Police said army troops, on getting specific information, surrounded village Gamroo, 57 km from the capital Srinagar, late Monday evening.
Security forces opened fire to quell stone-pelting protesters as fresh violence erupted on Friday in Kashmir after days of relative calm, leaving two persons dead and 50 others injured. Authorities imposed strict restrictions on the movement of people following a call by the separatists to march to Maisuma in the heart of the city to protest against the killing of youths allegedly in firing by security forces.
Two army troopers were injured in a powerful improvised explosive device blast near Chakala village in north Kashmir on Thursday morning.
Six army troopers were injured in an accidental blast inside a heavily guarded camp of the Rashtriya Rifles in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Thursday morning. A senior police officer said a powerful grenade went off accidentally while a clean-up operation was going on in the camp.
A student was killed, allegedly during an ambush operation of the army, in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Friday. Manzoor Ahmad Magray, 22, was allegedly shot dead by the troopers of 4 Para of the army, who had laid an ambush in Chogal area of Handwara town, 85 kms from Srinagar, in Kupwara district. The sources said the youth had ventured out during the night and the security forces challenged him. Magray failed to pay heed to the warning of the troopers.
The guidelines come after director general of police RR Swain said that posting any content on social media that promotes disharmony will be a criminal offence in Jammu and Kashmir.
Three terrorists were killed as security forces foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said.
Two youths were critically injured allegedly in security forces action against persons staging a demonstration in north Kashmir's Baramulla district against hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.
Three militants and a soldier were killed and another trooper wounded in a daylong encounter in the Sozipora village near Handwara in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
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.
Two powerful explosions rocked north Kashmir's Sopore town on Tuesday evening injuring one policeman.
At least 22 persons including 18 security men were injured in widespread clashes in Kashmir despite imposition of curfew in capital Srinagar's old city and three major towns on Wednesday.
Six persons, including two women, a police head constable and three other civilians were injured on Friday afternoon in a powerful explosion in north Kashmir's Sopore town.
The rain ebbed in some places in north India and pelted down in others on Tuesday, with at least seven more people dead and hundreds stranded as raging waters gushed through villages, towns and fields -- from the desert state of Rajasthan to the hills of Himachal Pradesh.
Eleven tourists, including two children, were killed in a road accident when the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge on the Zojila pass near a popular north Kashmir health resort in Sonamarg on Sunday evening.
Two persons were injured when security forces allegedly opened fire to chase away a stone-pelting mob in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Tuesday morning. A group of people defied the curfew at Khanpora, 50 kms from Srinagar, and indulged in heavy stone-pelting on the police and paramilitary forces, official sources said. They said the security forces initially used teargas shells and batons to disperse the protestors but after they refused to disperse.
'The visit of the honourable PM with the workable strategy towards conflict resolution will help greatly.' 'But visiting the state without concrete proposals may not bring the desired outcome at this stage.'
This is the first major snowfall in Kashmir this winter, which was largely dry so far.
Six people, including two policemen, were injured in a powerful blast in north Kashmir on Saturday. Militants tossed a hand grenade at the local police station in Sopore town, which exploded near the main entrance to the police station, said a senior police officer.
India agreed to give up the Poonch salient as well as Uri. To the north India also proposed to give up land in the Gurez sector giving the entire Neelam/Kinshanganga valley to Pakistan. In return India sought control of the post dominating Kargil town, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The PM said the Congress and its allies should not encourage the "Pakistan agenda" and speak the language of separatists.
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 constable, Rameez Parrey, had come home on holiday a few days ago.
Two militants were on Saturday killed in an encounter with army troops in Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district. "Two militants have been killed in an operation at Mooldari in Handwara area of Kupwara district," Defence spokesman Lieutenant Colonel J S Brar said.Brar said two major hideouts were also busted in the area.
Restrictions were imposed in north Kashmir and some areas of central Kashmir to thwart the march announced by separatists to Jamia Masjid.
At least 44 passengers were airlifted in two sorties of Mi-17 helicopter from north Kashmir's Bandipora town to Dawar (Gurez), while 46 passengers were rescued from Dawar to Bandipora, an official spokesperson said.
The weatherman has forecast widespread downpour in the Valley on Saturday and scattered precipitation on Sunday.
Police said a patrol party of the 32 Rashtriya Rifles was attacked by militants with automatic weapons at village Gund Karim Khan, 63 km from Srinagar in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Thursday morning. A JCO and a soldier were killed on the spot.
Security forces gunned down three militants of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba, including a top commander, on Friday morning in north Kashmir's Sopore town, 54 kms from Srinagar.A senior police officer said troops of Rashtriya Rifles and the police, acting on specific information, surrounded Seer village in Sopore on Thursday evening.He said a top commander of the outfit identified as Abdullah Babbar was among the slain militants.
Following appearance of fresh posters in north Kashmir where two sarpanchs were gunned down in the last fortnight, another 40 of them went public with their resignations on Sunday.
Suspected militants late Sunday evening shot at and killed a village sarpanch in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, triggering a new wave of panic among sarpanches.
Intense cold wave gripped Kashmir, with Kargil becoming the coldest place this winter.
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