Amid the recent increase in attacks on its troops, the Indian Army is now planning to increase the number of troops in the Poonch-Rajouri sector to curb the activities of the Pakistani terrorists there, sources said on Monday.
The streets of the hometown of Naik Karan Kumar-Kanpur were flooded with people keen to be the part of the last rites of the soldier who laid his life fighting terrorists in Poonch's Dera ki Gall area.
Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Monday visited the Rajouri-Poonch sector to review the security situation in the area even as a Brigadier has been attached for a Staff Court of Inquiry.
Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, on Monday, condoled the death of four soldiers in an ambush attack by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri sector on Thursday of last week.
Two persons were killed while 13 others were injured after a vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district.
Jammu and Kashmir Congress leaders are scheduled to meet party leadership in the national capital on Tuesday to discuss election preparedness for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, sources said
Additional security personnel were deployed in the Poonch district on Monday even as a search operation was ongoing in the forested terrain of Dera ki Gali, where two Army vehicles were ambushed by heavily armed terrorists from across the border last week.
Condemning the killing of a retired senior police officer in Baramulla, former Jammu-Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday urged all political parties to unite in the fight against terror.
Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi was briefed by officials on the ongoing operations in the Poonch sector on Sunday, an official statement issued by Indian army's Northern command said.
The Christmas Eve celebrations at the Union Church of Udhampur were a heartwarming reminder of the spirit of Christmas. The event brought people of all ages and backgrounds together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.