Air Chief Marshal Dhanoa said the Balakot strikes proved that the IAF had the capability to carry out operations across the full spectrum of operations and this was achieved through “long planning and induction” of platforms. read more

Wani’s killing in a firefight with security forces in South Kashmir’s Bambodoora along with two other militants of home-grown militant group Hizbul Mujahideen on July 8, 2016 triggered protracted protests across the Valley that left over 100 people ... read more

Based on the forensic report, the investigators believe that the RDX was mixed by JeM in the bomb to multiply the impact of the blast. read more

Amid spotlight on the Narendra Modi government’s Kashmir policy, Mohsin Raza, the lone Muslim face in the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, visited Pulwama to pay homage to the jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) who lost their... read more

The 46-day pilgrimage to Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas commenced on Monday under tight security amid an escalation in militant violence. read more

The Pakistani restrictions are in force till June 28 and Islamabad has given no indication that they will be lifted after that. read more

In a statement, the police identified the slain militant as Shabir Ahmad Malik, who was a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) before joining Ansar Ghazwat ul Hind (AGH), the Al Qaeda affiliate. read more

The Indian forces claimed they had carried out a retaliatory attack, as part of which air strikes were launched on a terrorist camp in Pakistan’s Balakot on February 26. read more

On 14 February this year, 40 Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) personnel were killed in a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) orchestrated terror attack in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. read more

The operation began in the morning when the Indian Army and state police launched an operation in Branpathri forests in Tral following information about the presence of a group of militants there. read more

Dhanoa asserted that the IAF achieved its stated military objective but the Pakistani side did not. “But none of them [PAF aircraft] crossed the LoC [Line of Control] into our side,” he told reporters. read more

The number of local militants has steadily gone up. According to police records, 66 of them joined the militant ranks in 2015. The number went up to 88 in 2016, 126 in 2017 and 196 in 2018. read more

Ajit Sahoo of 44 Rashtriya Rifles was killed when militants attacked the bullet and mine-proof patrol vehicle with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Arihal village of Pulwama district. read more

The trend first started in 2015 when a 15-year-old Burhan Wani dropped out of Class X and joined the homegrown militant group, Hizbul Mujahideen. read more

The central government needs to focus on a twin-track approach for the state. It needs to seriously address the political vacuum there read more