'India has both the wherewithal and the will to fight the enemy, but is living in a make believe world of its own since it is yet to accept that it is indeed at war,' says military historian Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
With three sarpanchs killed in December, many panchayat members are running scared and quitting their posts. Pervez Majeed reports.
5 terrorists to LeT and Hizbul were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of J&K.
The poll process for the second tier of the Panchayati Raj system will be completed by November 5, he said.
The idea of the road's revival was floated in 1979 by then chief minister Sheikh Abdullah.
The protest was organised by All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference (ASKPC), whose delegation led by its president Ravinder Raina later submitted a memorandum to the Lt Governor G C Murmu, highlighting various demands with special thrust for return and rehabilitation in their homeland.
Security personnel in Shopian town were the target, but those who got hurt were civilians.
Curfew continued in parts of Srinagar on Saturday in view of the separatists' call for occupying Lal Chowk and Airport Road here while curfew-like restrictions remained in force in rest of Kashmir even as normal life remained paralysed for the 57th day.
Mobile Internet services continued to remain snapped in the Valley.
Hundreds others were wounded many of whom received bullet and pellet injuries and are undergoing treatment in various hospitals.
The formal notification of handing over the case to the NIA is expected to be issued by the ministry soon, an official privy to the development said.
The necessary formalities were being completed in Jammu as well as in the national capital before the probe agency, which has been credited with breaking the nexus between stone-pelters and separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, takes over the case, officials said.
In the stone-pelting, SSP Doda, one SHO, one sub-inspector and two other police personnel were injured.
The heightened militancy this year in Pulwama is receiving ground support with the local people posing maximum resistance to the forces.
In a major blow to the commander of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Burhan Wani's close aide, Tariq Pandita, surrendered before security forces in south Kashmir on Saturday.
Curfew was on Sunday lifted from all parts of Kashmir but normal life in the Valley remained affected due to the strike call given by hardline Hurriyat Conference to protest against the firing incident in Ramban district that left four persons dead.
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The fate of 961 candidates, including Union ministers Giriraj Singh, Subhash Bhamre, S S Ahluwalia and Babul Supriyo of the BJP and former Union ministers Salman Khurshid and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of the Congress, will be decided by about 12.79 core voters in the fourth phase.
No major clash was reported on Thursday from anywhere in Kashmir.
Kashmir was indeed in need of a messiah that summer; 70 per cent of its population aged below 31 were up in arms against the Indian State. Every nook and corner of the land brought forth stories of youngsters with crushed bodies and an unfaltering spirit.
'If I see anyone taking the wrong path, I will stop him or her.'
Normal life has been paralysed due to curfew-like restrictions and separatists-sponsored strike since Saturday.
Security forces have been deployed in strength in sensitive and vulnerable areas to maintain law and order.
Basit Mukhtar was injured by a tear gas shell in clashes on September 5.
With this phase, election will be over in 424 seats and polling in the remaining 118 seats will be held on May 12 and 19.
The army had to had to aim at the crowd when jawans claimed to have been fired upon from the other side.
Barring parts of Srinagar city, Anantnag and Pampore towns, curfew was on Saturday lifted from Kashmir even as normal life remained disrupted due to the strike called by separatists.
Curfew was lifted on Tuesday across Kashmir, except from six police station areas of Srinagar, in view of the improving situation, even as normal life remained disrupted in the Valley for the 74th straight day.
Fresh clashes broke out in curfew-bound Kashmir Valley on Saturday in which 30 persons, including 15 security personnel were injured, as protests against the Ramban killings on Thursday continued in Jammu and Kashmir.
Top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander Abu Qasim was gunned down on Thursday in Kashmir.
'The return of violence in Kashmir justifies government precautions, but risk has to be taken.' 'We need to act and ensure that risk is converted to gain through direct interaction with Kashmir's public,' says Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
For a Valley on the boil, there is ample proof that New Delhi simply does not care.
A flood alert was sounded on Thursday in Srinagar city as River Jhelum was flowing four feet above the danger mark after incessant rain, while 23 villages have been inundated by floods in south Kashmir districts of Anantnag and Kulgam.
Two terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of north Kashmir, taking the toll to eight in the last four days of counter-insurgency operations.
Rifleman Aurangzeb, who belonged to the 44 Rashtriya Rifles, was on way back home on June 14 to celebrate Eid when terrorists abducted him.
Two militants and a civilian were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of South Kashmir, police said on Friday.
The number of terrorists killed in the past seven months this year is the highest in the same period over the past seven years.
Local residents started pelting security personnel with stones, leading to clashes, they said, adding that some civilians were injured.
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