The condition of the jawan is stable.
The home minister will also review the preparation for the annual Amarnath pilgrimage set to start on June 29.
According to the statement, the internet ban has been extended till 3 pm on June 15.
Major Shikhar Thapa was fired upon by a jawan in a fit of rage following an altercation.
It crashed around 11:30 am with officials saying that it drifted away while descending and tumbled into a 'nallah' flowing nearby.
'Our brave Indian soldiers don't reply to raining of bricks with mere sticks, they do so with iron rods'
The Army has cancelled an examination for pan-India recruitment of general duty personnel after paper was found to have been leaked, officials said on Sunday.
The jawan is the third army personnel to die in Pakistani firing and shelling on forward posts and villages in the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri this month.
With this incident, 154 Naxalites have been gunned down by the security forces in different encounters in Chhattisgarh so far this year, the police said.
At least 19 people were killed while 16 others, including six army jawans, injured when a truck rammed into two vehicles in Pali district of Rajasthan on Tuesday. The truck lost its balance on National Highway-14 in Supermpur area near Netra village on Tuesday evening when a car attempted to overtake it, said District Collector Neeraj K Pawan.
Amid demands for scrapping of Armed Forces Special Powers Act in parts of the country, including Jammu and Kashmir and northeastern states, an article in pro-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh journal 'Organiser' has favoured its continuation in such areas till government trains and prepares state police to contain insurgency.
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.
In a major joint offensive, separate joint teams of security forces, comprising over 2,000 personnel, had launched an anti-Naxal operation from Bijapur and Sukma districts in the South Bastar forests, considered as the Maoist stronghold, on Friday night.
The banned outfit ambushed an army vehicle with a powerful bomb near remote Asomiyagaon village.
A policeman was also injured in the gunfight that broke out in Bajaad village in the Gandoh area around 9:50 am.
This is the fourth successive Diwali that Modi has celebrated with jawans on the border.
The minister said he would not reveal the nature of the action by the armed forces but asked people at an event here Friday to trust him on this.
Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Samboora village of Pampore area following information about the presence of some terrorists there.
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The slain intruders are believed to be members of a Border Action Team comprising Pakistan army jawans and trained terrorists, an army officer said on condition of anonymity.
With this, the number of ceasefire violations along the IB and the LoC in the state after surgical strikes by the Indian Army in PoK has risen to 31.
The death of their colleague due to illness had angered the jawans.
'It has been doing yeoman service for the people of the North East.'
"Every person should be careful while making allegations against a responsible organisation like army," West Bengal Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi said.
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A brigadier and two jawans were injured on Friday night when Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian positions violating the ceasefire along the Line of Control in Tutmari Gali sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
During the visit, she reviewed the security situation in the border region and inaugurated a bridge that will link Leh to Karakoram, providing connectivity on the strategically important Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Olde axis for military transport.
Devara's self-appointed guardian of the sea unleashing violence as a means to end violence is purely Junior NTR fan-tasy, observes Sukanya Verma.
Handing the verdict, the General Court Martial also suspended the service benefits of Col DK Pathania of the 4 Rajput regiment (the unit which was involved in the encounter), Captain Upendra Singh, Subedar Satbir Singh, Havildar Bir Singh, Sepoy Chadraban, Sepoy Nagendra Singh and Sepoy Narinder Singh.
Deva recently replaced Hidma as commander of the Maoists' battalion no. 1, the IG added.
Constable Bijender Bahadur was on duty at forward point along the fence in Arnia sector along the IB when Pakistani Rangers resorted to mortar shelling and small arms fire at about 0020 hours on Friday.
In the retaliatory fire by the army, two of the militants were killed and the troops noticed the ultras dragging the two bodies back into the Pakistani side of the LoC, he added.
This is the 23rd incident of ceasefire violation in June.
Singh is survived by his wife Jasbir Kaur, a daughter, two sons and elderly parents.
Several counter-terrorist operations and encounters have taken place in the twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch this year.
An army jawan committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said in Jammu on Saturday. The jawan, identified as Immanuel Hmar, died immediately after he shot himself with his service weapon at his quarters at Deolmarg in Reasi district on Thursday night, the spokesman said.
The 35-year-old cricketer took to his Twitter page, venting his anger at the video and the violence in the state.
Ruling out any ceasefire violation from across the border, army on Tuesday ordered a court of inquiry into the death of a jawan in mysterious firing near Line of Control in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
This is the third incident of sniper attack by Pakistani troops along the LoC this month.
One army trooper was killed and another wounded in a powerful blast in the Balnoi sector of Poonch district, Kashmir on Saturday, a defence spokesman said.
