One JCO and 9 other ranks of the Indian Army came under the avalanche.
A resident of village Betadur in Dharwad district of Karnataka, the Madras regiment soldier was pulled out alive from under 30 ft of ice-and-snow debris where he lay buried for six days on the unforgiving Siachen glacier.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's two grandsons and a son-in-law, admitted in AIIMS with symptoms of dengue, are likely to be discharged.
Here is a timeline of the major attacks that have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir since 1999 till date
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