TODAYS TOP NEWS * The NC-Congress coalition in Jammu and Kashmir today hit the rocks as the two parties announced that they will go it alone in the Assembly polls in the state due later this year. * Former Lok Sabha member from Udhampur and senior Congress leader Chowdhary Lal Singh Sunday resigned from the party. * Panic gripped the bordering villages in Jammu as Pakistan fired indiscriminately on forward posts of BSF in Arnia Sector along international border of Jammu in which around six cattle got injured. * The 15th ‘Operation Vijay Diwas’, victory over Pakistani intruders in Kargil, would be celebrated by organising a two-day function in Drass from July 25. * An army jawan was killed when a grenade exploded accidentally during a counter-infiltration ambush in Gurez Sector along the Line of Control in Bandipora district of Kashmir * At least five persons including a policeman were injured on Sunday in clashes between protesters and security forces in Kulgam district, where a youth was allegedly killed in CRPF firing. * Expressing concern over rising incidents of ceasefire violations by Pakistan, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak to his Pakistani counterpart on the issue. * To check infiltration bids, nearly 2,000 additional Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and special surveillance equipment have been deployed along the international border in Jammu region for effective domination of the areas. * Country’s first line of defence along the China border – the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force – has a new ‘enemy’ in sight in the form of heart attack deaths which has claimed lives of dozens of its jawans in the recent past.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:53:10 +0000