News Topic:Militancy

Inspector General of Police (Kashmir Zone), Vijay Kumar Thursday, while terming the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen chief commander Riyaz Naikoo as a “big jolt” for militancy in Kashmir, said Naikoo’s killing will help contain militancy in the Valley to a large extent.

An encounter broke out between militants and security forces at Chadoora area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district, police said.

Militants in north Kashmir’s Sopore town targeted two cops in plain clothes when they were buying meat from a butcher. The attack left a cop and a butcher dead.

251 armed forces and 118 civilians were killed in various militant incidents in Jammu and Kashmir during the last three years, MoS Defence, Shripad Naik said.

Checking the nefarious designs of India’s adversaries across the Line of Control, Lt Gen B S Raju believes people nurturing separatist feelings have been shown the door.

At least five youths from southern districts of Kashmir have reportedly gone missing in the last month and may have joined the militant ranks, official sources said.

Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday said a teenage boy from Shallabugh area of central Kashmir's Ganderbal district, who was about to join militancy, was arrested.

PULWAMA — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday said that a youth shunned militancy and returned to the 'mainstream'."One more individual with the help of...