Lt General Upendra Dwivedi visited the encounter site yesterdayIt is not known if the terrorists have been killed by the security forces, or are still in hiding, or have fled, as the encounter entered its fifth day todayThe terrorists hiding in dense forests of Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district have stopped firing for now, over a hundred hours into the search operation in which three senior

This is the first time that the Commando Battalions for Resolute Action (CoBRA), created in 2009 to fight Maoist insurgents, have been moved out of central and eastern India and sent to J&K“Some companies of CoBRA were partly removed from Bihar and Jharkhand because of the decline in cases of Naxal violence there. Six months ago, their training started in the jungles of J&K,” an official said,

The encounter in Anantnag, which began on Wednesday, has seen the security forces using drones and helicopters for surveillance of the dense forest area where terrorists are believed to be holed upThe operation, taking place in the dense forest area of Gadole in the Kokernag region of south Kashmir, has seen the use of drones and helicopters for surveillance purposes.As the intense gunfight

Jammu: The martyrdom of Colonel Manpreet Singh, Major Aashish Dhonchak, DySP Humayun Muzamil Bhat and Rifleman Ravi Kumar at the Kokernag encounter in Anantnag led to a pall of gloom across the nation and the grief was equally shared in Kashmir.The people across Kashmir expressed pain at the martyrdom of the officers, the DSP and the rifleman by organising candle-light marches and along the

Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai visits forward areas near LoCChinar Corps Commander Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai on Sunday visited forward areas in the Uri sector near the Line of Control to review the anti-infiltration and counter-terrorist grid in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, Army officials said.This comes after the Anantnag encounter in which four security personnel died.The Army statement said that Lt Ghai

As a gunfight between terrorists and security forces is underway in south Kashmir’s Anantnag, adequate forces have been deployed in the upper reaches of Kishtwar to watch out for any terrorist movement from across the Pir Panjal Range, a senior police officer said on Saturday. The gunfight in forested areas of Kokernag has been going on since Wednesday. Three Army personnel and a police officer

Baramulla: The Indian Army has foiled an infiltration bid and killed three terrorists along LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, the Army officials said in a media briefing on Saturday.During the operation, a huge cache of arms, ammunition and currencies, both Indian and Pakistani, was recovered by the Indian Army and J&K Police from the terrorists who tried to infiltrate.Brigadier PMS