Members of the Sikh community on Saturday blocked Jammu-Pathankot National Highway in protest against an incident of alleged ill treatment of a Sikh youth.

Authorities have suspended the Amarnath yatra from here for the second consecutive day on Thursday as a large number of pilgrims were stranded at Baltal and Pahlagam camps due to inclement weather.

Pakistan troops on Wednesday morning breached truce consecutively on the second day in Jammu region by resorting to unprovoked firing at three forward Border Out Posts (BOPs) in R.S. Pura sector.

Pak troops on Monday night breached truce yet again by resorting to indiscriminate firing on one of the forward posts of India along International Border in Chak Phagwari area of Paragwal sector in Khour block of Akhnoor tehsil in Jammu.

While security forces on Sunday eliminated one terrorist in Kishtwar district, success continued to elude them in Mendhar gun-battle in tracking down the remaining hiding foreign terrorists in dense B

On the fifth day of Mendhar encounter, which has become one of the longest gunbattles between the security forces and the terrorists in Jammu region, two more Army personnel, including one junior commissioned officer (JCO) and a jawan, on Saturday got wounded.

Amid a “wordy duel” in Islamabad during talks between the foreign ministers, the Pakistan troops in a serious breach of truce resorted to unprovoked heavy firing at six Indian posts in Poonch and Jammu districts on Thursday night.

Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked hea-vy firing on at least six Indian posts in Poonch and Jammu districts late Thur-sday night. Heavy Pakistani rocket and mortar fire was reported in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district, targeting at least four Indian posts Thursday night. The Indian side retaliated with small-arms fire. The

Finally the security forces on Thursday tasted the success which had eluded them for past three days in fierce and still raging Mendhar encounter, and gunned down two dreaded foreign terrorists. Three more security personnel, however, sustained splinter injuries in the ongoing gun-battle.

The Army, which on Tuesday night lost its yet another tech-savvy valiant young Major besides injuries to six other Army personnel including a Colonel in Mendhar sector of Poonch district, this afternoon eliminated one dreaded self-styled district commander of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) outfit at Bonjwah Kither forest area in Kishtwar.