Cold wave tightened its grip on Kashmir Valley ahead of the onset of 'Chillai-Kalan' -- the 40-day harshest winter period -- with the summer capital Srinagar and Leh town recording the coldest night of the season.
Seven militants were killed by the army in an ongoing fierce encounter in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Monday.
A police official said the curbs have been imposed to maintain law and order in view of the separatists call for a march to the three districts of Baramulla, Pulwama and Srinagar.
The Udhampur-based northern command is committed to eliminate the scourge of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army said on Tuesday, as it paid tribute to four soldiers who died in a gunfight with heavily armed terrorists in Doda district.
This time army killed 1 terrorists along the Line of Control in Gurez sector.
The encounter broke out in Laribal village of Zachaldara in Handwara
The NIA will seek their transit remand and bring them to Delhi for further questioning
Three army troopers and a militant were killed and a trooper wounded when security forces foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in the Tangdhar sector of north Kashmir Kupwara district.
Restrictions under Section 144 CrPc have been imposed in few areas of the valley to maintain law and order, the officials said.
Intense cold wave gripped Kashmir, with Kargil becoming the coldest place this winter.
Jammu and Kashmir cops mistakenly used the image of Irfan Shah, a resident of Kupwara, instead of militant Abdul Qayoom Najar.
The body of Sehrai, 77, was handed over to his family on Wednesday evening and taken in a police escort to Kupwara in north Kashmir, at least 350 km from Jammu, where he would be buried at his ancestral graveyard in accordance with the COVID-19 guidelines.
Leh in Ladakh region recorded the lowest temperature this winter as mercury plummeted to minus 17.1 degree Celsius on Tuesday night, a meteorological department official said.
Two army men including an officer were injured in an ongoing fierce gunfight in north Kashmir frontier Kupwara district late Friday.
Two AK-47 rifles, seven magazines, 134 rounds of bullet, one radio set, one GPS device and a large quantity of war-like store were recovered from the possession of the slain terrorists
Landslides have occurred near Ramban and Battery Cheshma which have forced the closure of the highway.
The grenade blast which killed a protester took place at Brakpora village in Anantnag district of south Kashmir.
In the last three years, the Union Territory administration has invoked 311 (2)(c) of the Constitution to sack more than 50 employees, who were allegedly operating in shadows within the government and drawing a salary from the public exchequer, however, they were helping Pakistani terror outfits, providing logistics to terrorists, propagating terrorists' ideology, raising terror finances and furthering secessionist agenda, officials said.
An editorial in the Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' termed the Supreme Court order as the victory of "women power", and said the Centre needs to change its attitude and vision. The apex court's verdict meant there was a problem in the central government's "mental frame", it said.
Militants on Wednesday shot dead a youth and injured another, who were working as porters with the army, in Keran area of Kupwara district near the Line of Control in Kashmir, the army said.
The 40-day period marks the harshest phase of the winter in the Kashmir valley.
The defence minister will review the security situation along the Line of Control in the Valley and Line of Actual Control in the Ladakh region.
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The battalion had lost its first Commanding Officer, Colonel Rajinder Chauhan, on August 21, 2000.
An army major was killed in an accident during a cordon and search operation in south Kashmir's Anantnag district on Monday.
Large parts of north India reeled under numbing cold on Tuesday with the mercury remaining below freezing point at most places in Jammu and Kashmir, while dense fog in the early hours of the morning hit road and rail traffic movement.
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An army jawan was also injured in the encounter that began on Saturday night after troops launched a search operation in Khumhair forests of Handwara tehsil.
The separatist Hurriyat Conference is finished in Jammu and Kashmir but attempts are being made to keep it alive from Pakistan, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said on Monday, adding that the militancy in the region is "on crutches".
A top Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant commander was on Friday killed in an encounter with security forces in a village in Kupwara district of north Kashmir.
The army has gunned down two more intruding militants on the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
Restrictions were imposed in north Kashmir and some areas of central Kashmir to thwart the march announced by separatists to Jamia Masjid.
Fresh snowfall was recorded in the higher reaches of Kashmir overnight while the plains received rains, even as the mercury stayed above the freezing point at most places.
In the current year, army foiled 23 infiltration attempts killing 39 armed intruders along the LoC.
The 26-year-old scholar was on Monday expelled by AMU following reports that he may have joined the terror group after his photograph, showing him with an AK-47 rifle, appeared in social media.
The 40-day period of harshest winter ended on Saturday
Campaigning for the first phase of the five-phased assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir is in full swing as the top leaders of various political parties are criss-crossing 15 constituencies which will go to polls later this month.
The cold conditions returned in Kashmir division as the night temperature in most places, including Leh, plunged further below the freezing point followed with clear skies and unusual sunny days.
Troops noticed suspicious movement along the LoC in Keran sector in Kupwara district.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday ordered a magisterial probe into the killing of three persons by the army on the Line of Control after it said an infiltration bid had been foiled in north Kashmir's Machil sector of Kupwara district.
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