NEW DELHI, Oct 23:

The Army will soon reorganise a number of its infantry battalions with the induction of state-of-the-art equipment to tackle insurgency in various parts of the country, particularly Jammu and Kashmir. ..more

Explosion rocks Gool
Youth shot dead, another killed in cross-firing

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 23: Militants triggered a powerful explosion near a shop and opened firing on a patrol party in Gool Bazaar in Udhampur district in the early hours of this morning....more

Employee arrested, drugs seized
Police raids health clinic

Excelsior Correspondent

KATHUA, Oct 23: Police today raided a health centre—the Mahotra Health Clinic—operating from Ward No. 8 in the town and arrested one of the employee while doctors and other staff deserted the clinic before the police raid.....more

50 Assistant Surgeons shifted from GMC

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 23: In a major bid to overcome the shortage of doctors in the peripheral hospitals, the State Government has lifted 50 Assistant Surgeons from Medical College and its associated hospitals and posted them in Directorate of Health Services...more

3 militants shot dead in Kupwara
Six killed in Kashmir

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 23: Even as security forces have eliminated three more militants in Kupwara, separatist militants have again struck on Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) and shot dead a head constable while a constable has been critically injured. Militants have also blown up another Army vehicle at Safapora as one Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) has got killed and at least two soldiers injured...more

594 militants killed in J&K

NEW DELHI, Oct 23 : The Indian Army has killed 594 militants in Jammu and Kashmir this year, Director General (Infantry) Lt Gen Shankar Prasad said here today...more

CHENNAI, Oct 23: Frolicking children chanced upon sixteen powerful and ‘live’ pipe bombs on a dry river bed at Pothanur in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore district last night, police today said....more

Escaped Kashmiri militants now in PoK

MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 23: Three Kashmiri militants who escaped from a high-security prison in Jammu last week have reached Pakistan occupied Kashmir, a top Kashmiri leader has said....more

Husband arrested in dowry death case

Excelsior Correspondent

REASI, Oct 23: Following complaints of the parents of the deceased housewife Sunita, who was allegedly poisoned to death by her in-laws, Reasi Police has arrested husband of the deceased..more

10 killed in UP as boat sinks

LUCKNOW, Oct 23 : At least ten people, including four children and two women, were drowned when a boat ferrying them capsized midstream on a river in Uttar Pradesh’s Jyotiba Phule Nagar district today, a top Home Ministry official said..more