Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag on Thursday slammed Pakistan for giving "candid support" to terror groups like Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiyba as he called on the international community to join hands in combating the menace.
The three Army men who were part of NSG's Operation Black Tornado, as the Mumbai anti-terrorist operation was codenamed, are Captain Ryan Chakravarty of Army Ladakh Scouts Regiment serving with 52 Special Action Group of the NSG, Capt Karamjeet Singh Yadav from Army's Regiment of Artillery ARTY/51 SAG, and Subedar S Anthony Samy of Corps of Engineers/Special Warfare School NSG.
A group of army jawans on Wednesday allegedly vandalised a police station in Nashik and attacked several policemen, injuring three of them, while protesting the arrest of an army officer, the police said.
The encounter began when militants opened fire on a security party in in Zainakote area of Srinagar.\n\n
Three junior commissioned officers and two soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles will face disciplinary action in connection with the killing of two youths in Bomai-Sopore area on February 21, a defence spokesman said today.
President Prathibha Patil will inaugurate a two-day conference of Governors on September 16. The main issues that will be discussed are internal security and terrorism.
Had Karnik passed on the sentimentality effectively, Heroes might have been as compelling as its purpose.
Security forces' operation to eliminate the militants in Pindi Kathar area of R S Pura in Jammu and Kashmir is still in progress.
In its complaint, the family alleged 16 army men boarded their compartment of Swaraj Express at Delhi. The dispute started over the issue of sharing of seats and the army men allegedly started abusing and manhandling them.
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.
A defence spokesman clarified that the civilian died when militants, escaping after attacking an army column, opened fire.
The home ministry has directed the Border Security Force to intensify vigil along the International Border in the wake of repeated attempts by terrorists to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir.
Headed by additional secretary in the Home Ministry, B K Prasad, the team will also monitor the evacuation of stranded Indians in Nepal.
Police said two army soldiers of 42 Rashtriya Rifles who were injured in the militant attack were evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
Security forces in Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh have mounted vigil in areas where the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalim (Khaplang) led by Burmese-origin Naga S S Khaplang has strong influence.
Sectarian violence and the rape of a woman, allegedly by Pakistan army officials, have set off tension in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), according to international and Pakistani media reports.\n\n
The reason behind the suicides is believed to be stress, they said adding that separate cases have been registered in this regard.
Three army personnel were also killed in two encounters.
The officers are Major General P S K Choudhary, Brigadier Iqbal Singh and Colonel Anil Sehgal.
Captain Pawan Kumar sustained injuries in the firing by militants as security forces tried to make their way into the Entrepreneurship Development Institute building, an army official said.
In a twin terror attack, three heavily-armed militants dressed in army fatigues on Thursday stormed a police station and an army camp in Jammu region killing nine people including a Lieutenent Colonel, casting a shadow on the upcoming meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif.
Ceasefire violations by Pakistan continued as intermittent small arm fire was on through Thursday night in Balakota and Sabzian area in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir. The firing started at 9:30 pm and continued till the morning.
As many as 18 troopers of Army's School of Artillery have been arrested for allegedly vandalising a police station on the Nashik-Pune Highway and attacking policemen on duty, prompting the Army to initiate a probe into the incident.
Around 1,500 villages across Uttar Pradesh are trying to struggle to stay afloat after flood fury hit them hard due to the release of overflowing water from dams in Nepal last Sunday.
At least 21 persons have died and thousands were marooned in villages across eight districts of Uttar Pradesh where release of water from dams in Nepal have caused major floods, even as large parts of the state were heading towards a drought-like situation due to scanty monsoon rain.
The Indian Army on Monday mourned the demise of two young officers in the ongoing encounter with terrorists at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute in Pampore, Jammu and Kashmir.
Heavy mortar shelling and firing by Pakistani troops continued unabated along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday killing two more people -- both women -- even as a "massive" reply was being given from the Indian side.
Stepping up relief and rescue operations in quake-hit Nepal, India on Sunday deployed over two dozen aircraft and choppers along with nearly 1000 trained personnel and said the situation in the Himalayan nation was "very, very serious".
It's troubling times at the Line of Control with the Indian Army personnel fighting off terrorists who have been trying to infiltrate into India. On Thursday morning, a jawan was killed and three others were injured after a fierce gunbattle broke out between security forces and the terrorists who had sneaked into Arnia border sector while another infiltration bid was foiled along the Line of Control in Rajouri district.
Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate firing amid rocket and mortar shell attacks on Line of Control posts injuring three army jawans and a civilian in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
'India's policy makers need to pull their heads out of the sand and recognize the reality that Pakistan has supported and sponsored terrorism on Indian soil for more than three decades; a national counter-terrorism strategy must be evolved in the fullest consciousness of this fact, and of the continued hostility of the Pakistani nation-State to the very idea of India.'
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