SRINAGAR: Amid the continuing surge in the number of covid-19 cases, the government on Tuesday ordered 50% opening of shops in market complexes, bazaars,
Four militants from Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and al-Badr outfits, including those involved in the killing of an off-duty Territorial Army soldier in Anantnag on Friday, were gunned down on Sunday in two encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. With this, the death toll in the encounters that began on Saturday in Anantnag and Shopian has climbed to five as one militant was killed in the initial exchange of fire. Towseef Ahmad Bhat and Aamir Hussain Ganie, both from Bijbehara and linked to the LeT, were killed at village Semthan in the Bijbehara area of south Kashmir s Anantnag district after they refused to surrender and fired indiscriminately on a search party, the police said.
Balakot Air Strike: Mission to bomb JeM terror camps was codenamed Operation Bandar , says ex-IAF chief Operation Bandar was planned under utmost secrecy and most of the details were only known to the top planners, defence sources have revealed
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Indian Air Force s (IAF) mission to bomb a terrorist hideout in Balakot, Pakistan, was codenamed Operation Bandar . It s been two years since IAF conducted the Balakot Air Strike in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on February 14, 2019, to avenge the deadly Pulwama attack that claimed the lives of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Jammu and Kashmir. Operation Bandar was planned under utmost secrecy and most of the details were only known to the top planners, defence sources have revealed. The operation was so secret that the then Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa had made a classified telephonic call to Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser, ab