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India: One dead, 32 injured in grenade attack in Jammu bus stand

Jammu, Mar 7; PTI/GANASHAKTI: A teenager was killed and 32 others were injured Thursday in a grenade attack by suspected terrorists in the crowded general bus stand area in the heart of the city, officials said.

This is the third grenade attack by terrorists in Jammu bus stand since May last year, viewed by security agencies as an attempt to disturb communal harmony and peace in the city.

Cross-LoC trade on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road resumes

Srinagar, Mar 5 (PTI) The cross-LoC trade on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road resumed on Tuesday after it was suspended last week following an aerial engagement between the air forces of India and Pakistan.

As many as 70 trucks crossed the Kaman Post in Uri sector on the LoC as part of the barter trade between the divided parts of Kashmir which takes place four days in a week from Tuesday to Friday, an official said.

India: Hold Lok Sabha, state assembly polls in J-K together: Tarigami tells ECI

Srinagar, Mar 4; PTI/GANASHAKTI: CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami said on Monday the democratic process in Jammu and Kashmir should be resumed at the earliest and called for holding Lok Sabha and state assembly polls together in the state.

"Jammu and Kashmir is without an elected government for the past nine months and in the absence of an elected government, uncertainty in the state is deepening day-by-day and dissatisfaction among large section of people is increasing," Tarigami said.

Indian security forces kill 2 Kashmiris in Pulwama

Srinagar, 5 Mar 2019: Two Kashmiris were killed by Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, Army sources said Tuesday.

Indian security forces alleged that a gunfight broke out at Tral area on Monday with Kashmiri separatists. The security forces had cordoned off the area and launched an operation to flush out the separatists, they claimed.

3 Kashmiris killed by Indian security forces

Two Kashmiri separatists and a civilian were killed by Indian security forces in Kupwara district of J&K, reported The Hindu.

Five security personnel were also killed in a 56-hour battle.  The Indian security forces personnel killed in this battle are CRPF Inspector Pintu Kumar Singh, Constable Vinod, Sham Narayan Singh Yadav,  and two police constables Naseer Ahmad and Ghulam Mustafa Barah.

8 killed in India-Pakistan fighting amid high tensions

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian and Pakistani soldiers have again targeted each other’s posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least six civilians and two Pakistani troops, officials said Saturday.

But in a sign that tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals could soon ease, a Pakistani Cabinet minister said a key train service between Pakistan and neighboring India would resume on Monday.

India: several Jamat-e-Istami leaders' properties sealed in Kashmir

Srinagar, Mar 2; PTI/GANASHAKTI: Authorities in Kashmir have sealed several properties belonging to Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), including residences of some of its activists, police said Saturday, days after the Centre banned the outfit on grounds that it was "in close touch" with militant groups and was likely to "escalate secessionist movement".

Several properties, including residential houses, belonging to various JeI leaders and activists were sealed in many areas of the city and elsewhere in the Valley Friday night, a police official said.

4 Kashmiri civilians, 3 Indian security pers killed in Kupwara

Srinagar, Mar 1; PTI: Three security personnel were killed on Friday in an encounter with separatist militants in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Babagund area of Kupwara following information about presence of separatist militants there, the officials said.

During the searches, the militants opened fire on the security forces, who retaliated.

India: BJP leader asks J&K Police stop harassing Jammu youth

Jammu, Feb 27 (PTI) A senior J-K BJP leader Wednesday accused the state police of harassing the city's youth on "selective basis" in the wake of the anti-Pakistan protests over the Pulwama terror attack.

A curfew was clamped in Jammu city on February 15 following massive protests, a day after 40 CRPF personnel died in Pulwama. The crowd torched vehicles while rival groups pelted stones at each other at some places including Gujjar Nagar.

India-Pakistan War; conflicting reports

According to Pakistan Today, “a woman and her younger brother were killed and two others injured as Indian troops resorted to heavy shelling from across the LoC… Indian shelling began at 6am in the Abbaspur sector of Poonch district and remained “intense and indiscriminate” until 9am… at least three houses have been damaged completely while 43 houses and two educational institutions were damaged partially by Indian shelling.”

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