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Jawan killed in LoC blast
Daily Excelsior, 25 May 2013
An Army jawan was tonight killed in a mine blast at Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district.He has been identified as Lance Naik Rakesh Kumar of 3 Grenadiers.Reports said the jawan was part of Road
Opening Party (ROP), which was patrolling...
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4 Army men, militant killed in Tral
Daily Excelsior, 25 May 2013
SRINAGAR, May 24: Four Army personnel and an Engineering College student-turned-militant were killed in a fierce gun battle that raged early today in a forest village in Tral area of South Kashmir while
Pakistan troops violated the Line of...
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4 army men killed in Tral encounter
Rising Kashmir, 24 May 2013
Srinagar, May 24: Four army personnel and a militant died in a gunbattle in South Kashmir on Friday.The encounter took place at Buchu Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district when the army and the police had cordoned off a village...
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Top LeT commander killed in Srinagar
Daily Excelsior, 24 May 2013
A senior police officer said here that LeT commander for North Kashmir, Hilal Molvi was killed in an encounter with police in Narparistan, Fatah Kadal area of old Srinagar city this morning. He said that Sub
-Inspector Taseer Ahmad and constables,...
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Considerable improvement in terror violence in J&K
Daily Excelsior, 23 May 2013
Jammu, May 22: UPA Report card, which had been released in New Delhi by Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, has pointed out towards considerable improvement in terms of peace and tranquility and on all parameters of...
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Omar to raise AFSPA issue in internal security meet on June 5
Daily Excelsior, 23 May 2013
SRINAGAR, May 22: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said he would raise the issues of partial revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) during the next internal security meeting in
Delhi.The internal security meeting will be...
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PM sends tough signal on Ladakh incursion to Li
Times of India, 21 May 2013
NEW DELHI: India on Monday elevated peace on the border to a "core issue" with China, making it plain that it could not countenance any disturbance of the status quo, and that provocation like the recent
Depsang incursion could...
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Cop arrested for LeT links
Daily Excelsior, 20 May 2013
Srinagar, May 19: Police have arrested a cop for having links with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit in North Kashmir’s Sopore area and recovered arms and ammunition from his possession. Police sources said
that Hilal Gul son of Gul Mohammad...
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JCO killed, jawan injured; militants flee back
Daily Excelsior, 19 May 2013
Srinagar, May 18: A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was killed while a soldier was injured as Army today foiled a major infiltration bid by militants in Macchil sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in
North Kashmir’s Kupwara district.Srinagar...
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Boy killed in grenade blast
Daily Excelsior, 19 May 2013
JAMMU, May 18: A teen-aged boy was killed while his sister had a narrow escape in a grenade blast at village Kither in Bunjwah area of Kishtwar district this afternoon.Reports said Mohammad Yusuf, 15, son of Noor Mohammad, a resident of village Bakerwal...
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Another ‘intrusion plot’ foiled on IB in Jammu
Daily Excelsior, 18 May 2013
JAMMU, May 17: In a rare case of its kind, the Border Security Force (BSF) today recovered four Pakistani SIM cards and two mobile handsets of Nokia and Samsung companies on the International
Border (IB) after thwarting an infiltration attempt...
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Ambassador of Kuwait calls on CM
Daily Excelsior, 17 May 2013
SRINAGAR, May 16: Ambassador of Kuwait in India, Sami Mohammad Al Sulaiman this afternoon called on Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah.Matters of mutual interest were discussed in the meeting. The tourist potential of Jammu and Kashmir received focus in...
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Powerful IED defused in Kupwara
Rising Kashmir, 15 May 2013
SRINAGAR, May 14: Army claimed to have averted a major tragedy on Tuesday by detecting and defusing a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in the frontier district of Kupwara in north
Kashmir. Sources said a Road Opening...
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Army averts tragedy, defuses IED
Daily Excelsior, 15 May 2013
SRINAGAR, May 14: Army today recovered an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by militants in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district bringing the number of explosive devices recovered on the highway during past two weeks to three.Police sources...
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India, China end stand off; withdraw troops from Ladakh
Times of India, 5 May 2013
LEH/NEW DELHI: In a sudden development, India and China pulled back their troops from the stand off point at Daulat Beg Oldi sector in Ladakh, where the Chinese forces had intruded nearly three weeks
back, official sources said tonight. A...
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