Four civilians were on injured when an explosion occurred at a site where an encounter between security personnel and militants had ended on Wednesday night in Shopian district of south Kashmir.
12 security personnel, including three officers, were also injured in the operation at Reasi.
Five security personnel, including three state policemen, were on Wednesday killed when armed Naxals attacked them during construction of a culvert in Aurangabad district of Bihar, a senior police offical said.
Two militants were killed during a fierce gunfight in south Kashmir on Monday.
An unidentified militant and a woman were killed and five others injured in a fierce encounter between ultras and police commandos at a crowded market in Imphal on Thursday, official sources said. The gunfight broke out when the commandoes, acting on a tip-off, chased and opened fire at some suspected militants at the market complex. The militants retaliated and in the ensuing gunbattle, a civilian woman and an ultra were killed but other militants managed to flee.
A trooper was killed as army foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in north Kashmir Kupwara sector.
The well-planned attack, apparently aimed at affecting the upcoming polls and looting weapons, took place shortly after 9.30 pm on Sunday when about 22 CISF personnel were inside a canteen at Asia's biggest bauxite mine. The heavily-armed Maoists, numbering about 200, including some women, looted the CISF armoury in the mine area which contained huge quantities of sophisticated arms and ammunition as well as explosives, police sources said.
A militant was gunned down while a soldier got injured in fierce gun battles that broke out between militants and security forces in Uri sector near LoC and in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Wednesday.
Burhan Wani, the top Hizbul Mujaheedin commander was the poster boy of the outfit and was active in south Kashmir.
Eight militants were killed across Jammu and Kashmir in three different gunfights between security forces and militants Wednesday.
5 terrorists to LeT and Hizbul were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of J&K.
In a fresh spurt of violence in Nandigram, seven persons were reportedly injured in adjacent Khejuri area as Communist Party of India-Marxist and Trinamool Congress activists opened fire at each other on Monday night. Trouble first began when two CPI-M supporters were reportedly thrashed with rods at Janka village in Khejuri area, a Marxist stronghold, following a minor altercation.
Three persons including a policeman and two militants were killed while 14 others including seven army men, three paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force troopers and four cops were wounded in an over 24-hour-long north Kashmir gunfight that ended on Wednesday evening.
He said one civilian, Waseem Ahmad Mir, also sustained bullet injury 'in the nearby area' and later succumbed at a hospital on Friday.
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a group of armed insurgents opened indiscriminate fire on the security officials, triggering a gun-battle between the two sides.
During a gunfight between militants and police in Neela-Doke area in the district, a civilian was critically injured, they said, adding he succumbed to his injuries at a hospital. The victim has been identified as Mohmmad Lateef, a resident of Kandi.
At least three Border Security Force personnel were killed and two injured when Naxals blew up their vehicle in an improvised explosive device blast in Odisha's Koraput district on Tuesday.
"The operation is over. We have gunned down both the holed-up militants belonging to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit," a senior police officer said. Earlier, two militants wearing army uniforms had forced their way inside a house spraying bullets at the inmates.
Four militants were killed on Monday in a fierce gunbattle that erupted on Sunday on the Line of Control in Poonch, with security personnel foiling an attempt by ultras to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir.
However, the pellet guns will continue to be used as the last resort in the non-lethal category.
Police said army troops, on getting specific information, surrounded village Gamroo, 57 km from the capital Srinagar, late Monday evening.
Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants were on Thursday gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Kashmir, the police said.
The return of terror after a gap of three years and a gunfight with suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists in which an encounter specialist lost his life sent shivers in the capital. If one goes by figures provided by Delhi Police, the year also witnessed a decline of 12.78 per cent in crime rate in the city, which saw the murder of a TV journalist, elimination of the leader of the dreaded Bikers' Gang Bunty and the murder of another encounter specialist Rajbir Singh.
Two suspects have been detained from the encounter site, a police spokesman said.
Seven militants and two army troopers were among nine persons killed in fierce separate gunfights in the north Kashmir Kupwara border district on Wednesday.
Security forces gunned down the chief commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit in north Kashmir's Lolab area of frontier Kupwara district early on Tuesday.
The two-day-long bloody gunfight between the security forces and the militants ended in Srinagar on Wednesday afternoon in which two army majors and nine militants were killed.
Because of these clashes, train services between Srinagar and Banihal were suspended by railway authorities for the day.
Security forces shot dead three militants in two separate encounters while militants made an abortive bid to attack a security picket with a grenade in the Kashmir Valley, official sources said on Wednesday. Militants hurled a grenade on a security picket at Saraf Kadal in downtown Srinagar on Monday night, the police said.
Acting on a tip off, the Gorkha regiment raided the Mechaki reserve forest area at Hankhati where the militants, including hardcore ULFA ultra Joond Bhuyan, were sheltered. When the militants opened fire at the approaching militants, the securitymen retaliated and heavy exchange of fire continued for nearly an hour. In the shootout, Captain S Choudhury sustained grievous injuries and was airlifted to the Air Force hospital at Roroiya, where he was declared dead.
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This is the first case in the Valley in which Indian Army personnel have been awarded life terms on these charges.
The exact number of terrorists is not known but as per initial calls received at PCR Jammu four to five terrorists were involved.
Army troops on Thursday foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in Uri sector of north Kashmir Baramulla district eliminating five intruders.
Three troopers and a militant were killed in a north Kashmir gunfight that has been continuing for over 24 hours.
A free press is not necessarily an unbiased press. The media curates what it presents to the public, and that curation is driven by multiple considerations, argues Devangshu Datta.
One of the slain militants were identified as Wasim, a Pakistani national and self-styled district commander of JeM.
The operation had to be suspended on Thursday evening because of darkness as the security forces maintained a tight cordon around the hotel building to ensure that the holed up militants did not escape.
The gunfight erupted after the army and police jointly surrounded Bhat Mohalla area of Handwara on specific information about presence of a group of militants there.
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