The police have filed an appeal against the acquittal of S A R Geelani and Afsan Guru for their role in the attack on Parliament
Police have arrested five people in this regard.
The decision was approved by Prime Minister Imran Khan in view of the tense situation in Kashmir, the minister told state broadcaster PTV.
Varthaman preferred to stay with his squadron in Srinagar than going to his family home in Chennai while on leave.
Just two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Jammu and Kashmir, security forces on Friday foiled a suicide attack in Jammu by the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed, eliminating two suspected Pakistani terrorists in an encounter after they fired on a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) bus and killed an officer.
BSF IG Vijay Raman said the CCTV helped Ghazi Baba track the movement of BSF commandos outside the house.
The new recoveries are in addition to those made immediately after the encounter and include the personal weapons of Gazi Baba, the mastermind behind December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament, a BSF spokesman said.
At present, Wg Cdr Varthaman is serving at an IAF base in Rajasthan.
Pakistan plans to flood Kashmir with suicide squads mainly drawn from renamed Lashker-e-Tayiba in case the ongoing peace initiatives with India fail, a US-based Pakistani web newspaper reports.
As a mark of respect for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who lost their lives in the Pulwama terrorist attack, the Indian team sported special Army caps during the third ODI against Australia in Ranchi on Friday.
Ties between India and Pakistan nosedived after a terror attack on the Pathankot Air Force base in 2016 by terror groups based in the neighbouring country. Subsequent attacks, including one on Indian Army camp in Uri, further deteriorated the relationship.
The train will start running from the Indian side on Sunday, while on the Pakistan side it will leave Lahore on Monday on its return journey.
They will now be called Khaddam-ul-Islam and Jamiat-ul-Ansar respectively.
Delving into implications of the latest developments in Afghanistan, Russian Ambassador Nikolay Kudashev said that there is a danger of the possible spread of terror into Russian territory as well as Kashmir, noting that India and Russia will continue to work together to counter any threat of terrorism.
Pak FM Qureshi informed Parliament that he requested the OIC to either rescind the invitation or postpone the session in view of the prevailing situation, neither of which was done.
Residents in the mountainous area town told BBC Urdu they were woken by loud explosions.
The air strike was carried around 3:30 am, the sources said.
Pakistan's claim comes in the wake of tense relations between the two countries in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack.
A Delhi high court bench will hear his appeal on February 3.
India's immediate focus is to ensure that Afghan soil is not used for terrorist activities directed against it, the ministry of external affairs said.
They were allegedly planning suicide attacks in Karachi.
A bench comprising Justice Ashok Bhan and Justice H K Sema issued the order on Afzal's petition and tagged it along\n\nwith the petitions filed by the Delhi police and another accused, Shaukat Hussain Guru.
'National interests v/s Modiji's 'hugplomacy' breaking protocol, grand welcome to those who pledged USD 20 billion to Pakistan'
The Indian Army on Saturday said they foiled an infiltration attempt by Pakistani BAT in Jammu and Kashmir's Keran Sector while eliminating five-seven Pakistani army regulars and terrorists.
Some person had taken my photographs standing near the coffin. My media secretary had put the same on Facebook, Alphons said.
Officials said a number of such photographs of badly mutilated bodies were being circulated and the development was brought to the notice of force officials after which the advisory was issued.
The change of government in Pakistan after the exit of hawkish Imran Khan and his likely replacement by hard-core realist Shehbaz Sharif may provide a little window of opportunity for the leaders of India and Pakistan to reset their nearly frozen bilateral ties, according to experts.
A detailed investigation done by the NIA and other security agencies indicated that over 40 virtual SIM cards were used in the Pulwama attack alone, and there are probably more of them floating in the cyberspace of the valley.
A seven-kilogram improvised explosive device (IED) was detected on Sunday near the crowded general bus stand area in Jammu, averting a major tragedy and a plan by terrorists to set off an explosion on the second anniversary of the 2019 Pulwama attack, officials said.
The wife of Jaish-e-Mohammed militant Mohammed Afzal, who is set to be hanged on October 20 for his role in the 2001 attack on Parliament, will appeal to President A P J Abdul Kalam to pardon him.
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat on Wednesday asserted that any possible terrorist activity flowing out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and finding its way into India will be firmly dealt with, and suggested that the Quad nations should boost cooperation in the global war on terrorism.
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