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The driver of Punjab Roadways bus, which was targeted by the terrorists in a pre-dawn attack in Dinanagar town in this district, showed tremendous presence of mind and helped save lives. “As per my routine I was on my way to buy milk”. I saw something wired to the bridge.

Rebels have been fighting for an independent Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan since 1989.

Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh Badal, who runs the state government coalition with ruling national party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), blamed the federal government, saying terrorism and militancy are “national” problems. Senior police officers had also visited...

But wanted to know who is involved in this attack and who is responsible for it. A new front has been tried to open with Jammu and Kashmir.

Militants have attacked a police station in the Indian border-town of Gurdaspur.

Suspected militants fired at a bus station and entered police barracks on the outskirts of a northern town bordering Pakistan early on Monday, wounding at least six people, police said. Superintendent Baljit Singh, who was in the forefront, took a bullet on the head and was...

Two army helicopters were also pressed into the operation and a gunbattle was on when reports last came in. Times of India reports that no hostages have been taken at this point.

According to reports, the attackers, three to four in number first attacked a state roadways bus and then entered the police station.

Security officials have said under the condition of anonymity may have been a vehicle blast but this is yet to be confirmed.

Suspected Boko Haram fighters blew themselves up during a police raid in Chad’s capital early on Monday, killing five officers and six militants, police and government officials said.

The four countries-all of which border Lake Chad, a focal point of Boko Haram unrest-launched offensives against the militants early this year as it became apparent that the armed group was gaining too much ground in Nigeria.

N’DJAMENA: Chadian security forces killed six militants and lost five officers as they stormed an illegal arms cache east of the capital, the state prosecutor said on Monday. That attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on two police offices was the largest of its kind in Chad.