Kupwara Encounter

Busy with Narendra Modi's Sankalp Rally in Patna, Bihar ministers skip receiving body of CRPF jawan killed in Kupwara

The absence of senior leaders and ministers from the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government was conspicuous when the body of CRPF inspector Pintu Kumar Singh was brought to Patna airport on Sunday.

Yogi Adityanath announces Rs 25 lakh ex-gratia each to kin of two CRPF jawans killed in Kupwara encounter

Adityanath said the supreme sacrifice of these brave jawans will not go in vain and that the entire nation is standing with them.

One militant killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district in encounter with security forces

An unidentified militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Handwara area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said Friday. Security forces launched an operation based on credible inputs about the presence of terrorists in Pohrupeth in Handwara area Thursday evening, a police official said.

Three militants trapped in ongoing encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara town; schools, colleges shut

An encounter is ongoing between terrorists and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district on Thursday morning.

Lance Naik Sandeep Singh, killed in Kupwara encounter, was part of team that carried out 2016 surgical strikes

Lance Naik Sandeep Singh reportedly gunned down three militants in Kupwara before being killed in an anti-infiltration operation that began on Saturday.

Kupwara encounter: All 5 terrorists killed were foreigners; search on for missing jawan, say cops

All the five suspected Lashker-e-Toiba terrorists killed in the 48-hour long Kupwara encounter in north Kashmir were foreigners, the police said today even as the security forces launched a search operation in a dense forest area to locate a missing Army jawan

Security forces neutralise 5 militants in fresh encounter in Kupwara; 2 policemen, 3 army jawans killed

Five security forces personnel, including two army jawans, were killed on Wednesday in an ongoing encounter in the dense forests of the frontier district of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.ay.

Jammu and Kashmir: Student killed in Kupwara encounter, villagers erupt in protest

Protests broke out at a village in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Thursday morning as locals claimed that a youth killed in an encounter with security forces on Tuesday was not a militant but a student who had gone missing a day before.

Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti pays tribute to soldiers killed in Kupwara encounter

Mehbooba Mufti and her deputy Nirmal Singh paid rich tribute to a Captain and two other soldiers who were killed in an encounter in Kupwara district.

Rajnath Singh to visit Jammu and Kashmir on Friday to review security situation

Rajnath Singh is expected to visit Jammu and Kashmir on Friday to take firsthand stock of security situation in the Kashmir Valley ahead of the Amarnath Yatra.