Militants killed the two cops they had abducted from a village in the North Kashmir frontier district of Kupwara on Thursday.
The Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested a Sikh youth in North Kashmir for allegedly allowing Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Tayiba operatives to use his house as make-shift ammunition dump in exchange of liquor.Popinder Singh, who was working as a X-ray technician with the state health service, was picked up from his house in Choudhal in the frontier district of Handwara after he was named by an arrested terrorist, official sources said.
A top police official said that Pakistan is trying to infiltrate terrorists along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir even during the winters when most of the passes and mountainous areas along the border are covered in heavy snow.
The Manipur government dubbed as untrue the claim by the counsel for the committee appointed by the apex court to oversee relief and rehabilitation of the victims of ethnic violence that the people of the state were suffering on account of an economic blockade.
Five paramilitary Border Security Force troopers were injured and one is missing after a landslide triggered by a cloud burst hit their camp near the Line of Control in Gurez sector of north Kashmir's Bandipore district on Wednesday morning.
At least 11 persons, including two Army soldiers and nine militants, were killed in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday in three different encounters between militants and security forces.
Three troopers and a militant were killed in a north Kashmir gunfight that has been continuing for over 24 hours.
This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a ferment. This has reduced the BJP campaign to a laundry list of recycled grievances and thinly veiled communal appeals, neither of which are working as well as they have in the past, argues Prem Panicker.
A Junior Commissioned Officer was also killed in the gun battle, which broke out in Karnah sector in north Kashmir on Monday morning when troops confronted a large group of terrorists trying to sneak into this side from across the border, the spokesman said. Eight of the infiltrators were killed at Nasthachun Pass on Wednesday, raising the number of terrorists killed in the operation to eleven.
Two terrorists were killed in an overnight gunbattle with security forces in Baramulla district of north Kashmir.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the valour and professionalism of the Chinar Corps personnel.
General Kapoor, who arrived in Srinagar on Friday for a three-day visit to the state, inaugurated a boys' hostel in the frontier town of Tangdhar. General Kapoor said, "The passes are still closed because of heavy snowfall, and it is too early to comment on the levels of infiltration this year." He said that the army's role during the forthcoming state assembly elections in the state would be "limited to providing a secure atmosphere."
As many as 38 flights, including 23 domestic and nine international, were diverted from the Delhi airport to nearby cities between 6-8.45 pm.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Kalaroos village of the district following specific intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists in the area, a police official said.
Junaid-ul-Islam, a top leader of the Hizbul Mujahideen, has been arrested in Brarmulla district of north Kashmir, the police said on Thursday. Islam is the chief spokesman and top militant commander of the outfit in the state, said police sources.
Three militants were killed in an ongoing operation near the Line of Control in the Tangdhar sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Friday, according to a defence spokesperson.
2 other jawans were injured in Pakistani shelling in Naushera sector of Rajouri district.
A top terrorist commander of Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit was killed in a fierce gunfight in north Kashmir frontier Kupwara district on Sunday morning.
Army foiled an infiltration bid on Tuesday morning by killing a militant in Kupwara district of North Kashmir.
Singh said there is a large presence of terrorists across the Line of Control (LoC) but expressed confidence that the counter-infiltration grid will take care of the threat.
Curfew was clamped in Baramulla town of north Kashmir on Wednesday, which witnessed protests over the drowning of a student, even as authorities terminated the services of a policeman accused by locals of pushing him into the river.
In one of the biggest such seizures in recent times, security forces unearthed a huge arms haul, including 60 kg of RDX, nine assault rifles and 11 pistols, at a house in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit Pakistan-occupied-Gilgit late on Tuesday night and resultant mild tremors were felt in Doda and Kishtwar districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Three militants were killed on Tuesday as army troops foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in poll-bound Kupwara district of north Kashmir, a defence spokesman said.
Two girls aged seven and 16 were wounded in a militant strike in north Kashmir's Baramulla district late on Tuesday evening.
Three militants were killed when the Army foiled an infiltration bid in Tangdhar sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district early on Monday morning. A defence spokesperson told rediff.com that a group of infiltrators had made an attempt to sneak into Indian territory."The infiltrators were spotted and challenged. They opened fire on surrounding troops, triggering a gun battle that is still going on. So far, three militants have been killed," said the defence spokesperson.
Four terrorists and two army jawans were killed in a gunbattle between the two sides in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Friday morning.
School children also came out of their classrooms as parents started, making frantic calls to schools asking for the safety of their children.
A cable operator was shot at and killed by unidentified militants inside his house in north Kashmir's apple-rich Sopore town on Friday night.
Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma on Monday visited the Tangdhar sector of the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
The military operation inside the forests of Gurez sector follows the first large infiltration attempt of the year, which was detected and foiled by the Army last week when 12 terrorists were killed in an operation in the same sector of Bandipora district.
Curfew continued to remain imposed in a village in Bandipora district of north Kashmir for the seventh day today following last week's sectarian clashes in which four persons were injured.
He said the army was retaliating strongly and effectively to the ceasefire violation.
Cold wave swept most parts of north India on Saturday, as mercury dipped to zero degree Celsius in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir's Leh district shivered at minus 19 degrees even as extreme cold conditions claimed two more lives in Uttar Pradesh.
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.
Three militants of Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit were killed in an ongoing search operation in the Handwara area of north Kashmir Kupwara district.
The present happenings in Manipur are the wages of continued neglect, and not so benign at that, of a vital region and its people. Had we lavished on the North East even a fraction of the care and resources we do on Kashmir, things would not have come to this pass, asserts Shreekant Sambrani.
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