Pakistani-origin Bollywood starlet Laila Khan, who had been missing since the last 11 months, was murdered along with her family members in Maharashtra last year, the main accused in her kidnapping case has claimed.
The poll process for the second tier of the Panchayati Raj system will be completed by November 5, he said.
Police on Friday detained a teenage boy who purportedly sent the Harkat-ul-Jihadi-Islami email claiming responsibility for Wednesday's blast outside the Delhi high court from a cyber cafe in Kishtwar, police said.
On the release of political leaders, the functionary said the administration is taking step-by-step decisions.
Intense clashes had rocked Kashmir Valley in 2016 following the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in July that year, resulting in the death of over 85 people.
Leader of the opposition and People's Democratic Party, Mehbooba Mufti, has accused the central government and the Jammu and Kashmir government of using the youth of Kashmir as scapegoats to cover up militant attacks.
To track down the militants, including self-styled Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander Abu Moosa, responsible for killing of two jawans of Territorial Army on January 1, police on Tuesday carried out an operation in Gool area of Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The policemen were patrolling the area in view of a separatist-sponsored strike.
The Board of Control for Cricke in India decided to invite more applications for the post of Indian team's coach to give Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) a wide range of options to pick a suitable candidate.
Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, masquerading as labourers, were arrested by the Himachal Pradesh Police in Kotla area in Kangra district of the hill state in the wee hours on Wednesday.
At least seven persons were killed and 39 others wounded in a road accident in the hilly Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.
'By killing the state BJP secretary and his brother, the aim is to hot up the communal situation and revive militancy in an area which has remained peaceful,' says Sunil Sharma, Kishtwar's BJP MLA.
A top Hizbul Mujahideen militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Doda district, the police said on Monday.
The vehicle was on its way to Ramban town from Banihal when the accident occurred around 9.55 am. The driver lost control over the "overcrowded" vehicle which rolled down the deep gorge at Kela Morh near Maroof, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban range, Rafiq-ul-Hassan, said.
A suspected terrorist belonging to Harkat-ul-Ansar outfit has been arrested in a joint operation by the Uttarakhand and Punjab police from Haridwar, police said on Friday.
Pandemonium prevailed in the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly today over various issues leading to a walkout by the Opposition, while a Congress member threatened to quit the coalition.
Militants in the Kashmir valley are increasingly finding it difficult to get medical aid and many of them are dying due to various diseases and bullet wounds, a surrendered Ultra has claimed.
At least 25 passengers are feared dead in a tragic road accident in the hilly Kishtwar district of Jammu region, according to a senior state government officer.
A top Lashker-e-Tayiba militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said in Jammu on Monday. Acting on specific information, a joint column of the army and the police reached Kotli village, nearly 275-kms from Jammu, on Sunday evening to nab Mohammad Hussain. However, the militant, on seeing the security forces, escaped. The security forces chased Hussain, who lobbed grenades on them.
An Indian Army jawan and a Special Police Officer allegedly committed suicide by shooting themselves with their service weapons here and in Doda district respectively, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
There will be eight more phases of Panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
A self-styled section commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen outfit was shot dead by security forces during an encounter in Marmat area of Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.
A fresh water row may erupt between India and Pakistan over a 1200MW Sawalkot hydro-power project on the Chenab river in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, revived by the J&K high court, quashing a 2006 state cabinet decision of shelving the Rs 7436-crore project.
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"Pakistani soldiers opened unprovoked firing on Indian posts in Doda Battalion forward area of Poonch district at around 0930 hours today (on Tuesday)," Defence spokesman S N Acharya said.
The election is scheduled for February 13. Their names have reportedly been cleared by the coalition government of the NC and the Congress.
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday arrested a top militant commander of terror outfit Lashka-e-Taiyba in Srinagar.The police, acting on specific information, arrested Ashiq Hussain alias Umair, district commander of LeT outfit for Doda, along with his wife, from the uptown Batmallo locality of the city."His wife too is an active LeT cadre. Three associates of the LeT commander have also been arrested," the spokesman said.
Fate of 271 candidates including two former chief ministers -- Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Ghulam Nabi Azad -- would be sealed on Wednesday, as 16 constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir go to polls in the sixth round of the seven-phase assembly elections.As many as 20,000 additional security forces personnel and nearly 10,000 local policemen have been deployed at 1,268 polling stations set up in the 16 assembly seats spread over five districts.
Two militants, including a close confidant of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, official sources said.
Seven terrorists including a top commander of the Hizbul Mujaheedin outfit were killed on Saturday in two separate encounters in Jammu region of the state, according to the police.
Gateway of India, Andheri, Oberoi Hotel and Navi Mumbai were places where these militants had already carried out dry runs -- a chilling reminder of 2006 Mumbai serial blasts.
Five personnel of the Border Roads Organisation, including a lieutenant colonel and an engineer, were gunned down by militants at Symbham top, the highest point on the Srinagar-Kishtwar Highway, in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday evening.
Three persons, including a woman and a child, were killed on the spot and two other children were critically injured when somebody fiddled with a round type of explosive device that was in the house of SPO Haroon at Gurnal-Beel village on Saturday morning, they said. Later, the two injured children also succumbed to their injuries in hospital, they added.
Posing as civilians under a new intelligence-based operation to target militant leaders, the Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Junaid and gunned down another militant from the Pakistan-based outfit and three from Hizbul Mujahideen. Junaid was trapped in a bus by police personnel who posed as passengers when the militant undertook a journey to travel to his area of operation.
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for traffic for the third day on Friday due to fresh landslides triggered by heavy rains, leaving over 500 Kashmir-bound passengers stranded.
A group of terrorists struck the house of PDP Kishtwar district president and escaped with the service rifle of his PSO early Friday.
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The shooting inside the camp triggered panic and consternation as senior officers and colleagues rushed to overpower the berserk trooper.
Two children were killed when a hand grenade exploded in Gawari village in the hilly Doda district at Jammu on Friday. The children had found the grenade by the riverside and were playing with it when the grenade exploded, said the police. The victims have been identified as Kamran (6) and Mohammad Afzal (12). The police suspect that the grenade may have been the leftover ammunition of the recent encounter between militants and security forces in the village.
Among the seizures made from the ultras included 2 kg RDX, a detonator and some hand grenades, Joint Commissioner of Police, Karnal Singh told PTI.
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