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.
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A Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant was on Tuesday killed in an encounter with security forces in a village about 35 kms from Srinagar in Pulwama district.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
From the indications available so far, the November strikes in UP appear to have been carried out by Indian cells of the HuJI. If this is proved by further investigation, the HuJI possibly now has an Indian branch with operatives, capable of carrying out terrorist strikes autonomously without too much dependence on their counterparts in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
'We were scared about what would happen if these terrorists managed to enter the building.'
The fourth edition of the India-China joint training exercise Hand-in-Hand 2014 kick-started on Monday at the Aundh Military Cantonment in Pune.
A local court on Friday acquitted 19 persons, accused to have helped get fake passports for the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999.
Security forces on Saturday busted a Lashker-e-Tayiba module in Sopore in north Kashmir with the arrest of four militants.
A 'barat' of over 100 Taliban militants, using decorated vehicles, carried out the surprise assault on sleepy guards at Pakistan's third largest jail in the restive northwest region to walk away with 250 prisoners, including top commanders of the outlawed outfit.
At least five people were shot dead on Wednesday in different incidents of target killings in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi.
While it is too early to assess as to who might have been responsible for the attack and why, one has to recall past instances of contacts of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam with the Harkat ul Mujahideen (known as the Harkat ul Ansar before 1997), a member of the International Islamic Front of the Al Qaeda and the role played by the commercial ships of the LTTE in the 1990s in facilitating heroin smuggling from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
'...Cliffy with utter disregard to his personal safety, charged through the fire zone, closed in on the enemy, threw hand grenades inside their bunkers and killed six enemy soldiers!' '...He was hit by a volley of bullets. Even before breathing his last, Cliffy killed a Pakistani soldier in hand-to-hand combat...' Captain Keishing Clifford Nongrum, who was just 24, received the Mahavir Chakra posthumously for his superhuman act of valour in the Kargil War just 18 months after he joined the Indian Army. Archana Masih/Rediff.com remembers one of India's Bravest Of The Brave as the nation salutes the 527 soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice for the Motherland on Vijay Diwas.
It was the latest targeted assault on a place of worship of the Sikh community in Afghanistan.
In one of the biggest arms hauls in recent times, the Indian Army on Sunday seized 18 AK-47 rifles and five pistols from a militant hideout in forests near the Line of Control in Kupwara district of poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir.
At least 16 people were killed and around 40 injured in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi, when armed men raided a gambling club and threw hand grenades in one of the city's old areas, Ghas Mandi.
The Karnataka State Reserve Police personnel were staying in a school building.
The recoveries from their car included 10 hand grenades, two AK magazines and 27 AK rounds, a police official said.
Army troops today busted a militant hideout and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition including a sniper rifle, one universal machine gun and 13-kg explosive in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The special cell of Delhi Police arrested Mohammad Salman Khurshid, Abdul Rehman and Mohammad Akbar Hussain from the Red Fort area on Tuesday, Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh told PTI.
Terrorists hurled a grenade at a busy bus stand in Tral in Pulwama district on Thursday.
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist in the Mumbai terror attack who was held guilty on Monday, is a school dropout who saw Jihad as the purpose of his life.Kasab, the face of the devastating terror siege on Mumbai in which 166 persons were killed, took part in the bloodiest episode of the 60-hour siege that started on the night of November 26, 2008.
The men in custody had accumulated rocket-launchers, hand grenades and explosives for the attacks, a private TV channel reported.
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Three Maoists were killed in two separate encounters in Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. The encounters occurred a day after a group of suspected Maoists looted Rs 10 lakh from a bank in the same district. According to the police, two Maoists were killed in an encounter in Polavaram forest area of Khammam on Tuesday.In another incident, a Maoist was killed in an encounter with the police in Nandigamapadu village.
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist in the Mumbai terror attack who was held guilty on Monday, is a school dropout who saw Jihad as the purpose of his life.Kasab, the face of the devastating terror siege on Mumbai in which 166 persons were killed, took part in the bloodiest episode of the 60-hour siege that started on the night of November 26, 2008.
Youths from Malaysia, South Africa and Sudan too were trained in these camps.
Those killed included six members of the cleric's family.
A huge quantity of arms and ammunition was recovered from Padgah village in Thane district.
Four-year-old Neeraj alias Yash has to live on with the gory memory of his father being shot dead by Pakistani terrorists right in front of his eyes on November 26 last year. Yash was wise enough to duck behind the door of his shanty located at the back of the Cama hospital in south Mumbai and saw his father being felled by the two terrorists, including Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani gunman, who had gone on the rampage that frightful night.
The Anti Terrorism Squad on Wednesday told the MCOCA court hearing the case into the September 2008 Malegaon blast that it has video recordings of a meeting in which the blast accused were present
The five heavily-armed Pakistani infiltrators were killed immediately after they sneaked across the Line of Control from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in Machil sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
A Hizbul Mujahideen module, responsible for causing car and hand grenade blasts in the Valley was jointly busted by the Jammu and Kashmir police and Central Reserve Police Force.
Somnath Thapa, who was to be sentenced on Tuesday by the court, failed to appear stating that he was suffering from viral fever while he is already a cancer patient.
In a joint operation, police, Rashtriya Rifles and Central Reserve Police Force arrested LeT militant Mohammad Ashraf Sheikh alias Moulvi from his village at Rampora in Pulwama district, a police spokesman said.
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