In a statement, the ministry of home affairs said the UT of Ladakh consists of two districts of Kargil and Leh while the rest of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir is in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir.
Poonch district of Jammu region recorded the highest turnout at 75.42 per cent. Ganderbal district recorded the highest polling in Kashmir valley at 56.28 per cent.
Reasi district of Jammu region recorded 75.20 per cent voting, the highest in the union territory, State Election Commissioner (SEC) K K Sharma said, adding that 50.53 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the third phase of the maiden DDC polls in J-K.
A court in Jammu and Kashmir has sentenced a militant to death for killing five members of a family in Rajouri district of Jammu region in 2005.Principal Sessions Judge of Rajouri Subhash Chander Gupta passed the death sentence against Mohammad Younus alias Amir Khan for killing five members of a family in the Raj Nagar area of Rajouri on October 9, 2005.Younus and four other militants had entered the house of Munshi Ram and killed him, his brother, his two sons and nephew.
At least 2-3 Pakistani armymen are believed to have been killed on Tuesday in the retaliatory firing by Indian troops in the Noushera sector of Rajouri district while seven women, including six members of a family, were injured in R S Pura sector of Jammu district in cross-border shelling.
Jaitely's statement comes amidst the escalating tension between Indian and Pakistan.
Head Constable Sharief had gone underground soon after the arrest of a Jaish financial chief Amzad and his associates.
Two unidentified bike-borne assailants threw acid on a 30-year-old woman doctor in New Delhi in Tuesday morning in West Delhi's Rajouri Garden area.
'If people show laxity by not wearing masks or wearing it inappropriately or violate social distancing norms, and if law enforcement agencies do not penalise and ensure violations do not increase in quantum, then we are certainly in for a trouble. And, the next wave could be worse than the second wave situation'
Indian troops guarding the border, retaliated resulting in exchanges.
The Army is retaliating strongly and effectively, the spokesman said.
The chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik and his seven aides were on Thursday detained by police at Banihal while they were going to tension gripped Rajouri town.
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A youth, who was allegedly taken for arms training to Pakistan occupied Kashmir by terrorists 14 years ago, was arrested after he returned to his house in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The NDMA added that the National Capital Region, and Hisar, Kaithal, Jind, Kurukshetra, Karnal in Haryana is likely to be again hit by the unusual weather on Wednesday.
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.
Manish Sisodia, Satyender Jain, Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Imran Hussain, and Rajendra Gautamas took oath as the ministers in Delhi.
The border skirmishes witnessed a spurt after India's air strike.
Following the arrest of a top terrorist who had made a video of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval's office, it has come to light that Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad is planning a strike in Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbag Singh said on Sunday.
There was suspected movement along the Line of Control (LOC) in forward belt of Keri area in Rajouri sector and a Patrol party was launched in the area immediately on Tuesday, a senior Army official said.
Major Bisht's marriage had been finalised and he was to come home on February 28, sourced close to the family said.
The officials added that six houses were damaged in the intense shelling by Pakistani troopers.
Unlike their Kashmiri counterparts, the people of border region of Rajouri-Poonch are against the demand for azadi and division of Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre-appointed interlocutors for the state said on Sunday.
The districts are Gondia (Maharashtra), Raj Nand Gaon (Chhattisgarh), Davangiri (Karnataka), South Goa, Wayanad and Kottayam (Kerala), West Imphal (Manipur), Rajouri (J&K), Aizwal West (Mizoram), Mahe in Puducherry, SBS Nagar in Punjab, Patna, Nalanda and Munger in Bihar, Pratapgarh in Rajasthan, Panipat, Rohtak and Sirsa in Haryana, Pauri Garhwal in Uttrakhand and Bhadradari Kothagudem in Telangana.
The unprovoked firing from across the border took place in the Nowshera and Sunderbani sectors in Rajouri district and the Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district.
'I am jobless and don't have savings to sustain. Better I go home and do farming. If I am lucky, I will survive'
Out of the 280 constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, 43 are going to polls in the second phase with 25 in Kashmir and 18 in Jammu division.
The J-K top cops also said less than 200 militants are currently active in Jammu and Kashmir.
The daring action is in retaliation to the ceasefire violation by Pakistan along the LoC on Saturday.
"Saluting your valour, 130 crore countrymen of India are standing firm with you today. Today every Indian is proud of the strength and bravery of his soldiers. They are proud of your invincibility," said PM Modi.
Geelani, who was scheduled to address a Friday congregation at Rajouri town and Thanamandi, was arrested at Chingus, 90 km from Jammu.
The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) swept the maiden District Development Council (DDC) polls by winning 110 seats, while the Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single largest party by getting 75 seats after securing the largest vote share in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday.
Two militants, an army trooper were killed and a police officer wounded in two separate encounters in the Rajouri district of Jammu region on Tuesday.
Captain Bhoopendra Singh had also provided wrong information to his superiors and the police about the recovery made during the staged encounter, the charge sheet filed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police before the chief judicial magistrate in Shopian said.
Acting on a tip-off that some terrorists were hiding in Rajdhani forest belt at Thanamandi, troops of Rashtriya Rifles and police launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area. In the ensusing gunfight, two ultras were killed and a police constable was wounded, said SSP (Rajouri) R K Jalla who supervised the operation.
A doctor couple in Rajouri have been questioned by security agencies in connection with the sensational espionage case involving an Indian diplomat, who was arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan.
Four more Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants and an army trooper were killed in yet another fierce gunfight in the hilly Rajouri district of Jammu region on Friday.
Four AK rifles, magazines, grenades, pistols, a satellite phone, a GPS device, geo-satellite maps of Jammu and Kashmir, besides Pakistan-made edible and electronic items were recovered from them.
A woman was killed and nine others, including two army jawans, were injured when militants fired at a passenger bus during an attack on an army convoy in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday morning.
Two Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Rajouri district on Friday.Acting on a tip-off about the movement of militants in the Kanthole Gundi-Darrutelna area in Kalakote, 130 kms from Jammu, a police team assisted by Rashtriya Rifle and Central Reserve Police Force personnel launched a cordon operation.An encounter soon broke out at approximately 8.30 am, and two militants have been killed so far, said the police.
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