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Hizbul terrorist arrest: Centre orders NIA probe

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday handed over Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), relenting to Jammu and Kashmir government's pressure, which had demanded the case be transferred to NIA for a "time bound speedy probe". NIA will now probe the circumstances under which, Liaqat was arrested. ...  

NIA should probe Hizbul terrorist's case: Omar Abdullah

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday spoke to Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and demanded that the case of arrest of an alleged Hizbul Mujahdeen terrorist by Delhi Police be transferred to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for a "time-bound speedy probe". The Chief Minister took up the matter with Shinde over phone as the latter was away in Maharashtra with President Pranab Mukherjee. ...  

'BSF convoy attack signifies downturn in security situation'

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemned the militant attack on a BSF convoy on the outskirts of Srinagar, saying Thursday's incident signified a "down turn" in the security scenario in the state. "The armed attack on a paramilitary vehicle which resulted in the death of a trooper signifies a down turn in the security scenario under the present government even as the chief minister is engaging himself in frivolous debates,"...  

J&K: Omar Abdullah questions the silence on terrorists killing a boy

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted over the killing of 18-year-old Suhail Ahmad by terrorists in Sopore town, saying that there would have been a huge hue and cry if the attack had been carried out by security forces. ...  

J&K: 18-year-old shot dead by suspected LeT terrorists

Unidentified terrorists have shot dead an 18-year-old youth in Jammu and Kashmir. Police say Suhail Ahmad Sofi was chased down and shot in Dobgah village of Sopore at around 10 pm on Tuesday night. ...  

Legislators not using right ways to express their views, says Omar

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday alleged that the Legislative members do not utilise the "right procedure" to make their view points. "It has been observed that members do not utilise the right procedure to make their view points in the Assembly or Council, but they choose speaking outside the Houses which weakens the institutions," Omar, who was here to attend the 'Best Legislators' award function at...  

India @ 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai

The final draft of the anti-rape Bill, which proposes stringent punishment for rape, acid attack, stalking and voyeurism besides reducing the age of consent for sex to 16 years from 18, was cleared by the Union Cabinet on Thursday. ...

Terror attack: CRPF miffed at politicians' absence at wreath ceremony

Anger erupted among CRPF jawans on Thursday over absence of state political leaders at the wreath laying ceremony at Police Control Room in Srinagar in memory of their five colleagues killed in a 'fidayeen'(suicide) attack. As officers and jawans of the CRPF and state police bid a tearful adieu to the five slain men, rage overtook grief with some personnel from the paramilitary force targeting Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for...  

CRPF calls itself 'orphan' as govt officials fail to attend martyrs' homage ceremony

Angered by the absence of the government officials at a homage ceremony organised for the five CRPF personnel, who were killed in a fidayeen attack on Wedneday, one of the soldiders said they felt like orphans who don't have a father to care for them. ...

Kashmir requires sincere and uninterruptible dialogue: Mufti Islah

Does the March 13 attack on CRPF mean that militancy is again on an upswing in Kashmir? CNN-IBN's Srinagar Bureau Chief Mufti Islah joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...  

J&K terror attack: No govt official at CRPF martyrs' funeral ceremony

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah rushed to the airport to pay homage to the five CRPF soldiers killed in Wednesday's terror attacks after protests by the Opposition over the absence of government officials from the funeral ceremony of the martyrs. CRPF soldiers were upset after the Jammu and Kashmir ministers failed to attend a homage paid to the five soldiers who died in the terror attack in Bemina....  

J&K Assembly disallows adjournment motion on CRPF attack

An adjournment motion on the killing of five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, moved in the legislative assembly by the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP), was on Thursday disallowed. ...  

J&K: DGP to conduct inquiry into suicide attack on CRPF camp

Jammu and Kashmir government has asked state Director General of Police Ashok Prasad to conduct a detailed inquiry into the suicide attack on a CRPF camp and killing of a youth in alleged firing by security forces on Wednesday. ...  

J&K: Strike called against death of a protester in CRPF firing

A day after the first fidayeen attack in three years, a strike was called in Srinagar after the death of a protester. The State government imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew after the youth was allegedly killed in the CRPF firing. ...  

India @ 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai

In the first major terror attack in Kashmir in 3 years, terrorists on Wednesday stormed a CRPF camp in the heart of the city in Bemina area killing 5 jawans and injuring at least 7 others. ...

Srinagar: Suicide attackers target CRPF camp; 5 security men killed

In a major terror strike in the heart of Srinagar, a group of suspected fidayeen (suicide attackers) tried to storm a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Bemina area of the city and killed at least five security personnel and injured seven other before being shot dead in retaliatory fire. ...  

J&K: Attack at CRPF camp, 5 jawans, 2 terrorists killed

In the first major terror attack in Kashmir in three years, terrorists on Wednesday stormed a CRPF camp adjoining a school in the heart of the city in Bemina area killing five jawans and injuring at least seven others. ...  

Afzal Guru's hanging: Uproar in J&K Assembly as MLAs throw mikes

There was more uproar in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Tuesday as an independent MLA was seen throwing a mike. MLAs stormed the well and shouted slogans after which the PDP staged a walkout demanding that Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's body be brought back. ...  

No militant returned from PoK officially

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said Jammu and Kashmir had received over 1,000 applications from militants in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) but no one had yet returned through the designated routes. ...  

Rape accused who escaped in a VVIP chopper arrested

Hours after he made a daring escape using a VVIP helicopter, the rape accused Mohammed Pervez was arrested from Rajouri. Authorities said Pervez pretended to be an accident survivor and fled in the chopper. ...