The 20-hour gunfight between militants and security forces came to an end on Thursday when the forces gunned down the two militants holed up in a hotel at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
The 20-hour gunfight between militants and security forces came to an end on Thursday when the forces gunned down the two militants holed up in a hotel at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.Earlier, the forces gained control over the ground and first floor of the hotel and continued the fierce gunfight with the holed up militants.A CRPF trooper as well as a civilian, who was being evacuated from the hotel, was injured during the encounter.
Two civilians were killed and four others wounded in alleged security force firing in south Kashmir Pulwama district on Sunday afternoon.
Four civilians were on injured when an explosion occurred at a site where an encounter between security personnel and militants had ended on Wednesday night in Shopian district of south Kashmir.
Two militants of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba were on Tuesday killed in a fierce gunbattle with security forces during an overnight operation in Pulwama district of south Kashmir that also left a policeman injured.
Two terrorists, one of them a Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander, were killed in separate gunbattles with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.
A top Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist, believed to be nephew of the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, was on Thursday gunned down by security forces in an encounter in north Kashmir's Bandipora district.
Because of these clashes, train services between Srinagar and Banihal were suspended by railway authorities for the day.
Fierce gun battles took place on Monday between the Maoists and combined security forces at three places in West Midnapore district, a day after four Eastern Frontier Rifles jawans were gunned down by the extremists at Gidhni bazar in Kolkata.
Three unidentified militants were killed in a fierce gunfight in the hilly Mahore area of Reasi district in Jammu region on Monday.Troops of the 58 Rashtriya Rifles surrounded a forest area near Mahore early on Monday after receiving specific information about the presence of a group of militants in it.He said, "The operation is over. Arms and ammunition have also been recovered from the encounter site".
In other developments, The Bush administration sought Sunday to allay concerns that a Shiite religious state could emerge in Iraq as a result of last weekend's elections.
The exact number of terrorists is not known but as per initial calls received at PCR Jammu four to five terrorists were involved.
One of the kidnappers is also an Indian citizen.
Seven people, including two police officers and a terrorist, were killed as the Punjab Police's elite Special Weapons and Tactics team and the Indian Army were carrying out a massive operation in the Gurdaspur district to flush out terrorists who went on a rampage attacking a bus and a police station complex.
The recoveries made from the gunned-down terrorist included two assault rifles along with two magazines and 234 rounds of bullets, five pistols with 10 magazines and 60 rounds, 15 hand grenades and 12 fuses for IEDs.
An unidentified militant and a woman were killed and five others injured in a fierce encounter between ultras and police commandos at a crowded market in Imphal on Thursday, official sources said. The gunfight broke out when the commandoes, acting on a tip-off, chased and opened fire at some suspected militants at the market complex. The militants retaliated and in the ensuing gunbattle, a civilian woman and an ultra were killed but other militants managed to flee.
The well-planned attack, apparently aimed at affecting the upcoming polls and looting weapons, took place shortly after 9.30 pm on Sunday when about 22 CISF personnel were inside a canteen at Asia's biggest bauxite mine. The heavily-armed Maoists, numbering about 200, including some women, looted the CISF armoury in the mine area which contained huge quantities of sophisticated arms and ammunition as well as explosives, police sources said.
Eight militants were killed across Jammu and Kashmir in three different gunfights between security forces and militants Wednesday.
Police said army troops, on getting specific information, surrounded village Gamroo, 57 km from the capital Srinagar, late Monday evening.
A Border Security Force jawan was killed in a Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, the third strike by the ultras since Saturday in the state.
Seven militants and two army troopers were among nine persons killed in fierce separate gunfights in the north Kashmir Kupwara border district on Wednesday.
A self-styled district commander of the Lashker-e-Tayiba was killed and a civilian wounded in a fierce gun-battle between ultras and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Saturday afternoon.
"The operation is over. We have gunned down both the holed-up militants belonging to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit," a senior police officer said. Earlier, two militants wearing army uniforms had forced their way inside a house spraying bullets at the inmates.
The two-day-long bloody gunfight between the security forces and the militants ended in Srinagar on Wednesday afternoon in which two army majors and nine militants were killed.
The success for security forces comes days after Inspector General of Police, Jammu, Mukesh Singh said that four cases of killings and weapon snatching in Kishtwar district have been solved with the arrest of three Hizbul Mujahideen activists.
A naxal commander, who was carrying a reward of Rs 2.10 lakh on his head, was killed in a fierce gun-battle with the security personnel in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday afternoon, the police said.
The return of terror after a gap of three years and a gunfight with suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists in which an encounter specialist lost his life sent shivers in the capital. If one goes by figures provided by Delhi Police, the year also witnessed a decline of 12.78 per cent in crime rate in the city, which saw the murder of a TV journalist, elimination of the leader of the dreaded Bikers' Gang Bunty and the murder of another encounter specialist Rajbir Singh.
One of the slain militants were identified as Wasim, a Pakistani national and self-styled district commander of JeM.
Three Naxals, including two women, were on Saturday gunned down by security forces at two different places in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bastar division, taking the total number of ultras killed in separate gun-battles in the region this month to 21.
An army jawan, identified as Happy Singh of 19 Rashtriya Rifles was killed in the encounter,
With the operation getting fiercer by the minute, more troops have been called in.
A United States jury on Wednesday found Dzokhar Tsarnaev guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, as well as fatally shooting a police officer four days later.
The commander, identified only as Podia, was on Tuesday gunned down by police in Dantewada district, 450km from Raipur, Superintendent of Police Kamlochan Kashyap told PTI.
Bullet-riddled body of a Hizbul Mujahideen militant was found in a jungle on Saturday in north Kashmir, with police suspecting the hand of break-away Hizb faction Lashkar-e-Islam.
The outfit has prepared a list of local Hindus and secularists who they plan to target.
The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
At least three Border Security Force personnel were killed and two injured when Naxals blew up their vehicle in an improvised explosive device blast in Odisha's Koraput district on Tuesday.
The bodies of the three militants were recovered from the debris of the house at Arwani in Bijbehara area on Friday morning after security forces blew up the building using explosives, a police official said.
Hoque said he alerted the chiefs of NIA and CBI against Chowdhury.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh also said that the National Investigation Agency would probe the cases, including the Lucknow encounter in which an alleged terrorist linked to a train blast was killed.
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