Opposition parties on Tuesday questioned the "silence" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on the violent clash between Indian and Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh and asked them to take the nation into confidence on the matter, while the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party asserted that India's borders will remain intact under Modi's leadership.
For both India and China, the most likely option -- and the most challenging -- appears to be a freezing of the status quo.
Two army jawans were killed and military buildings damaged in the strong earthquake that rocked Sikkim on Sunday.
The decision was taken just a day before the Army squad was set to travel to Pune, where the drill will commence on Monday, the Kathmandu Post reported.
This is the first such incident along the border with China that Indian armed forces personnel have been killed after a gap of nearly 45 years.
Indian troops also fired in retaliation and the firing stopped from both sides around 1 pm
'Brigadier Harbir Singh, who is among the injured, was on leave at home. When he realised at midnight that the operation has started, he cut short his leave voluntarily and rejoined'
Andrabi, the founder of the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, an Islamist separatist organisation is also a member of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
An army jawan was killed and another injured in an ongoing operation to flush out militants near Line of Control in Kalaroos sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
The encounter has brought to light gaps in the Army's vigil along the LoC as the group of terrorists had managed to sneak in nearly 8 km after crossing two ridges of the Shamsabari mountain range.
Three terrorists of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) and an Assam Rifles (AR) officer were killed in an encounter in Mon district of Nagaland, a defence spokesman said on Wednesday.
The Army and police immediately launched a search operation in the area to nab the militants.
Three army soldiers were killed in a militant ambush in south Kashmir's Tral in Pulwama district on Friday morning.
4 civilians were also killed and dozens of others injured in clashes that broke out between protestors and security forces following three separate encounters.
In heart-wrenching scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, coffins of soldiers arrived in several states for the last rites with full military honours.
Two officers -- Lt Colonel Mukesh Jha and Major Amardeep Singh -- are among the five injured army personnel.
The snow avalanche occurred on Wednesday when a SASE team and Army personnel were jointly carrying out a routine exercise near Pulam Sundar post, the last Indian post along the Indo-China border in the district
The Pakistani authorities have deployed large contingents of soldiers and policemen at one of the country's largest nuclear facilities in Dera Ghazi Khan following 'serious' threats from the local Taliban, a media report said on Thursday.
Here is a timeline of the major attacks that have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir since 1999 till date
The Delhi high court on Monday refused to stay the trial court's summons to three Army officers on Lieutenant General (Retired) Tejinder Singh's criminal defamation complaint, accusing them of misusing their official positions and power to level false allegations against him.
The army on Monday foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, killing two militants while three army jawans were also killed.
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.
Three Army personnel were killed on Thursday and four injured when suspected NSCN rebels ambushed their vehicle in Arunachal Pradesh's Tirap district bordering Nagaland.
In the second incident of ceasefire violation this week, three army jawans were injured, one of them critically, when Pakistani troops fired at Indian posts on Wednesday in Kashmir's Poonch district. "Pakistani troops resorted to a brief small arms firing on posts along LoC in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district at around 2 pm today," a defence spokesman said.
Major Kamlesh Pandey and Sepoy Tanzin Chhultim died in hospital.
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.
Several cases related to scams and terror incidents of yesteryears reached their logical conclusion in 2011 which saw the conviction of veteran politician Sukh Ram besides confirmation of death sentence of Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist Mohd Arif in the 2000 Red Fort attack case.
Mostly of the militants belonged to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad.
The DGP said Jatt's killing, along with one of his associates, was a big success for the security forces.
Mueen, who works as an Information Technology manager at Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Pampore was offering late afternoon prayers with colleagues when three militants entered the campus on Saturday.
Following are some of the terror-related incidents that have taken place in Punjab between 2001 and 2016.
A huge crater was created at the site of the ambush and two vehicles -- a jeep and a Shaktiman truck --were completely damaged.
A militant was killed and three army jawans injured in three different encounters with terrorists in Bandipora and Kupwara district along the Line of Control in north Kashmir, official sources said on Tuesday.
Police identified the suicide bomber as Adil Ahmed, who officials said joined the Jaish in 2018.
Pakistan military on Wednesday dismissed as 'fabricated' reports that Pakistani-American David Headley, who confessed to plotting Mumbai attacks, had named three army and Inter Services Intelligence officials for their involvement in the 26/11 strikes, claiming that it was an attempt to malign security agencies.
Three Army troops were killed and five others injured in a blast inside their vehicle at Pattan in Baramulla district of Kashmir on Thursday, official sources said.
Two avalanches hit Siachin Glacier, the world's highest battlefield in Ladakh region on Wednesday morning killing three army troopers.
A statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) termed the report as false and fabricated, and said that they were aimed at maligning the image of the Pakistan Army and the ISI.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday paid cash relief to the families whose houses were destroyed and damaged in the last month's standoff between militants and the security forces in the Chinkipora locality of north Kashmir's Sopore town.
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