Two militants were killed in a north Kashmir encounter early on Monday. A defence spokesman in Srinagar said two unidentified militants were killed in north Kashmir's Wattergam Rafiabad village of Baramulla district in an ongoing encounter on Monday morning.
Indian Navy's elite marine commandos on Friday rescued 21 crew members including 15 Indians from a bulk carrier in the North Arabian Sea and sanitised it in a swift operation while responding to an attempted hijacking of the Liberian-flagged vessel by around five-six armed personnel.
The top court also took note of the submissions about objectionable public utterances by some groups and individuals.
Forty-six nurses, who were held captive by Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants in Iraq, on Saturday returned home by a special Air India flight to a happy reunion with their families here, bringing to an end their about month-long ordeal.
Army foiled second infiltration attempt along the LoC in Kashmir in three days, reports Mukhtar Ahmad from Srinagar
Army troops on Friday foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Poonch district, killing a suspected militant who was in an army fatigue.
The injured have been air evacuated to Mantripukhri and search operations are in progress, the Army's SpearCorps headquartered in Dimapur said on Twitter.
Khalistan terror group received backing of Paksitan's ISI, reveals its chief in chilling confessions to the Punjab police after his arrest.
Security forces have killed three militants in north Kashmir's Bandipore district on Friday, even as the gunfight is still on in the thickly forested area.
The army foiled an infiltration bid shooting dead a militant in an encounter along the Line of Control in Rajouri district on Thursday.
One policeman was killed and three securitymen were injured on Monday in a fierce gunfight with a group of holed up militants in south Kashmir's Tral in Pulwama district.
The operation was still on when reports last came in from the area.
Police informed that acting on a tip-off that a group of ULFA militants were hiding in a makeshift camp on the hillock near the outskirts of the city, a police team set out to raid the hideout.
Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gunships pounded Taliban positions in the restive Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan, and killed 33 militants and destroyed two main bases of the banned Lashkar-e Islam group.
An unidentified militant shot and critically wounded a prominent member of the National Conference in south Kashmir's Tral town on Friday afternoon. "The militant fired pistol rounds from a close range at Abdul Salam Bhat, the block president of NC, at Tral market on Friday afternoon," a senior police officer said. "Bhat was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment. A search to find the militant is going on in the area," he said.
Four militants, including three of Hizbul Mujahideen, were on Monday killed in two gunfights during search operations in the Kashmir valley, officials said.
One militant was killed in an encounter while three others remained holed up in the border area of Mendhar in Poonch district in Jammu & Kashmir, after their infiltration bid was foiled by security forces on Wednesday. A joint team of the Army and state police launched combing operations in Chajla area of Mendhar, soon after receiving inputs that a group of four militants had sneaked into the Indian side from across the Line of Control.
"The world, which includes our brotherly friends (China and Saudi Arabia) whom the foreign minister (Khawaja Asif) thanked in a prematurely triumphant tweet on Tuesday, is not impressed with what they see as this country's continued intransigence," the Dawn said in a stinging editorial, criticising the policies of the government, especially the powerful military.
It was the second attempt by militants to infiltrate since the Indo-Pak ceasefire.
Two security personnel and a militant were killed when the Army foiled an exfiltration bid along the India-Pakistan border in Rajouri district.On observing the movement of militants towards the LoC, the security personnel fired at the exfiltrators in Ek Nallah area. Two jawans and a militant were killed in the ensuing gun battle.However, the other ultras managed to escape.
The army foiled an infiltration bid in Keran sector of Kupwara district in north Kashmir on Friday night, killing four more militants.
India also went on an overdrive in expanding its military engagement with like-minded countries in its neighbourhood and beyond in the face of China's relentless attempts to become a regional hegemon and establish its primacy in South Asia.
A high alert has been sounded along the Line of Control in Kashmir Valley as infiltration from across the border has seen a sudden spurt with terror groups including banned LeT and JeM believed to have sent nearly 20-25 cadres in the last 10 weeks.
Four militants were killed in the encounter which began on Sunday.
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A menace to development and a constant threat to the country's security, terror incidents by Maoists have reduced in the recent past, says Intelligence Bureau chief Syed Asif Ibrahim.
Five militants who were trying to cross the Line of Control in Jammu were killed by the army.
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Stepping up the campaign against terrorists, Pakistani security forces killed at least 67 militants in a countrywide swoop on Friday, taking the number of insurgents killed to 124 after the brutal Peshawar school massacre that left 148 people dead.
Militants shot at and killed a police constable and wounded another person in south Kashmir's Kulgam district on Saturday morning.
A police official, an army trooper and a top militant commander were killed in a fierce gunfight at Dadsara village near the south Kashmir's Tral town in Pulwama district, 30 km from Srinagar.
The Army killed two militants who were trying to infiltrate into India in Kupwara district on Wednesday morning.A group of heavily-armed militants tried to sneak into the Indian side at Tangdhar, 140 kms from Srinagar, a defence spokesman said. On noticing their movement, troops challenged them and in the subsequent encounter, two militants were killed.The encounter was still going on when the last reports came in.
The army foiled a major infiltration bid on Saturday along the Line of Control in Kashmir, killing five terrorists.
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the attack.
A diary recovered from the slain militants in the Bemina suicide attack has led to the arrest of a man, who had allegedly acted as a guide for the Pakistani militants to enter the city to carry out the attack.
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