In the most serious breach of truce in 2010, the Pakistan troops resorted to unprovoked heavy firing on around six to eight Indian forward posts in Krishna Ghati sector of Mendhar tehsil in Poonch dis

Ending yet another round of speculation about the revocation of much-maligned Armed Forces Special Power Act from the state, chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday made it clear that the act would continue to stay in militancy-ridden areas of the state.

Security forces have unearthed a militant hideout in Doda district and found a cache of arms and 25 kgs of explosive powder from it, the police said on Tuesday.

Failing the desperate attempt of terrorists to strike in a big way on Independence Day, the security forces on Sunday eliminated two out of five militants, who had ambushed an Army convoy on August 11

Just a day after one Army jawan was killed in Pakistan firing in neighbouring Poonch district, one woman was killed and 19 others, including two Army jawans were injured in a failed terrorist ambush on Army convoy near Thannamandi of Rajouri district in Jammu on Wednesday morning.

Facing rebuke for excessive use of lethal force against the stone-pelting protesters in Kashmir, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is awaiting mandatory clearance from the home ministry to get it equipped with the latest non-lethal weapons for better riot management.

A woman was killed and 15 people hurt when terrorists attacked a civilian bus and an Army jeep in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Wednesday, the police sources said.

Amid violent protests in the Kashmir Valley, Congress ministers in state have appealed to the people, particularly youngsters, to maintain peace and calm.

A Pakistani was among two persons arrested from a Christian school for staying illegally in the city, the police said here on Wednesday.

The Army has ordered a court of inquiry (CoI) against three of its officers, including a brigadier, in connection with the milk scam in military farms in J&K.