Maybe, the need for secrecy may have tied the government's hand from sharing details in Parliament. Still, it should consider the need of sharing the utmost within any consultative committee, so that relative secrecy is still maintained. But such a course should involve the prime minister or home minister, as it is much more serious than is being made out to be, argues N Sathiya Moorthy.
Five Central Reserve Police Force troopers and two suicide attackers were among seven persons killed and nine others wounded in a fidayeen attack in the Bemina locality of the Srinagar on Wednesday morning. Those injured included seven CRPF troopers and two civilians. All the injured have been evacuated to hospital for treatment.
He said 100 youths joined terrorism in J-K this year, which is also the lowest in many years.
Two Central Reserve Police Force personnel, including an officer, were killed in a militant attack in Sangam area of Anantnag district in Jammu & Kashmir.
After multiple attacks in Kashmir Valley, a ruling National Conference leader on Tuesday night kicked up a controversy alleging that army may have had a hand but later sought to defuse the row saying he has not accused any security agency of involvement.
The four Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists were shot dead by Pakistani police in Lahore.
Sheikh Ghulam Ahmad Saloora was attacked with a grenade at Duderhama in the Ganderbal area of Srinagar.
The three-year-old son of a former militant, who was critically wounded in an attack in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Saturday evening, succumbed to injuries in a hospital in Srinagar.
The dreaded Islamic State militant group on Thursday claimed responsibility for the attack on a Pakistani media house that had injured one person.
The vehicle was carrying the bodies of a forest department official and an SPO, killed on Saturday in an encounter, for burial.
The men in custody had accumulated rocket-launchers, hand grenades and explosives for the attacks, a private TV channel reported.
Five soldiers were killed and 10 wounded, officials said. Two of the attackers blew themselves up, two were killed in fighting and one was captured.
Information can be provided on the Punjab Police helpline -- 181, officials said, adding the identity of the informer will be kept a secret.
Taliban fighters attacked the homes of pro-government tribesmen in Mohmand region of northwest Pakistan, killing four persons and injuring five more, officials said on Monday.
The operation turned into an encounter after terrorists opened fire on security forces.
One cop from the Gidham police station, in Dantewada district, was killed and another abducted in the incident.
Sri Lanka on Monday insisted that India is not involved in the recent attack on its cricket team in Lahore, but did not rule out the possibility of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam link to the audacious gun and grenade strike that left seven players injured and eight people dead.
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Bangladesh on Wednesday executed banned Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his two associates for a 2004 attack on a shrine that killed three people and wounded the British high commissioner at the time.
Intelligence agencies believe the Mumbai attack was redemption for the man who botched up jihadi terror's arrival in South India.
The attack came on a day when the union home minister, Rajnath Singh is arriving in the valley to review the states security situation.
Constable Mudasir Ahmad became the second policeman to die in the violent clashes that erupted in the Valley following killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.
Those killed included six members of the cleric's family.
Samantha Lewthwaite or the White Widow and the world's most wanted woman terrorist, has reportedly been gunned down in war-torn Ukraine by a Russian marksman.
Mosques in two French towns were attacked a day after the firing at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that left 12 dead. However, there have been no casualties.
Sixteen policemen were killed and several others injured on Monday after a border patrol armed police division was attacked in China's Muslim-majority northwestern Xinjiang province, just four days ahead of Olympics. Two attackers drove a lorry into the police station in Xinjiang city of Kashi Monday morning and threw two grenades before they were arrested, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Trooper Rockey kept two heavily-armed militants, who attacked a security convoy in Udhampur, engaged and did not allow them to lob grenades on the bus full of BSF personnel.
Four gunmen trying to storm a guesthouse in the diplomatic area of Afghanistan's Kabul have been killed, say the police.
Umer Khalid was a A++ category top ranking terrorist and carried a cash reward of nearly Rs 7 lakh.
Radical Sunnis attacked a Muharram procession with grenades and automatic weapons in Quetta. Curfew has been imposed.
Discussions were held on India's response to the Uri attack, in which New Delhi has held Islamabad responsible.
The Border Security Force on Thursday said it was not privy to any "specific" intelligence input about the terrorist strike in Udhampur on a bus ferrying 44 unarmed personnel that had got "isolated" from a convoy with the lone armed soldier on board staving off the attackers who tried to enter the vehicle.
Evacuation of people from the family quarters is in progress.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from the bombing, which was felt across the city.
The Karnataka State Reserve Police personnel were staying in a school building.
HuJI leader Abu Zandal, who was recently arrested, said they had sent several consignments of grenades to Lashkar outfits operating in India until 2004, an unnamed security official was quoted as saying by the Prothom Alo daily. But the outfit failed to send the last such consignment as the Lashkar representative who was supposed to receive it was killed in an encounter with the Border Security Force near Bangladesh's Kaliganj frontier.
A top official from the Indian embassy in Kabul has been sent to Jalalabad to ascertain the details.
At least 10 policemen were killed as a suicide bomber blew himself up when security forces mounted an operation to rescue hostages taken by a group of militants who stormed a police station in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.
A self-styled divisional commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen was killed along with his bodyguard as security forces foiled an infiltration attempt and a conspiracy by the proscribed outfit to revive its activities in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district early on Monday, officials said.
There were no casualties or injuries in the attack on a Rashtriya Rifles camp in Bandipora.
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