Gurdaspur Terrorist Attack

Thwarting a possible terrorist attack ahead of Republic Day, Punjab Police on Friday have seized RDX, a grenade launcher, two compatible grenades, nine electrical detonators and two sets of timer devices for IEDs from Gurdaspur.

Seventeen soldiers have died and several others are injured after a group of terrorists attacked an Army base in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri. The base is located just 6 km from the Line of Control, in the Baramulla district of north Kashmir. All four terrorists, part of a suicide squad, were killed in a six-hour encounter.

Army on Friday conducted a joint mock drill with the Punjab Police in Pathankot to see their preparedness to thwart any attempted terrorists strike, ahead of terror attack at Dinanagar completing a year.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) was today allowed by a Special Court to conduct a lie-detector test on senior Punjab Police officer Salwinder Singh in connection with the Pathankot terror attack probe.

A Superintendent of Police rank officer of Punjab Police Salwinder Singh was quizzed for the fourth day today by National Investigation Agency (NIA) whose interrogators also questioned his cook and the caretaker of 'Panj Peer Dargah', which the official had claimed to have visited before he was kidnapped by terrorists involved in Pathankot attack.

The Punjab Police officer who was allegedly abducted by terrorists involved in the Pathankot attack on December 31, has appeared before the National Investigation Agency or NIA for questioning in New Delhi today. He is likely to undergo a lie detector test.

After a massive combing operation spanning over three days, security forces today declared that the Air Force station in Pathankot in Punjab was fully sanitised, seven days after six terrorists struck the sprawling facility.

Security has been strengthened around all installations in the country of the Indian Army, Air Force and Navy, in view of the terrorist attack on the air base in Pathankot last weekend.

The police officer who says his car was hijacked by terrorists in Punjab has been summoned to Delhi for questioning by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

No terrorist has been caught in Gurdaspur's Tibri in the three-day operation, but reports of suspicious men seen in the area continue to surface.

Security agencies were on their toes and a combing operation was on in and around Tibri military cantonment area in Punjab, a day after some locals in a nearby village claimed sighting of two men in army fatigue moving in suspicious manner.

The police officer who has said he was abducted by Pakistani terrorists before they raced away with his SUV was "kidnapped" for a second time on Wednesday, with investigators recreating his encounter based on his description of what happened to him on the night of December 31.

The role of a senior Punjab policeman is being investigated, as operations against terrorists who attacked an air force base in Pathankot continued well into a third day.

At a small, remote village in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab, a group of women are gathered in a house to mourn a man who has become a national hero. They sit around Madhu, the daughter of Subedar Major Fateh Singh, who was martyred as he fought the terrorists who opened attack on the Pathankot Air Force base early on Saturday morning.

Superintendent of Police Baljit Singh who laid down his life fighting heavily-armed terrorists from Pakistan in Gurdaspur last month, is among three policemen of Punjab chosen for the top police medal on the eve of Independence day.

Thwarting a possible terrorist attack ahead of Republic Day, Punjab Police on Friday have seized RDX, a grenade launcher, two compatible grenades, nine electrical detonators and two sets of timer devices for IEDs from Gurdaspur.

Seventeen soldiers have died and several others are injured after a group of terrorists attacked an Army base in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri. The base is located just 6 km from the Line of Control, in the Baramulla district of north Kashmir. All four terrorists, part of a suicide squad, were killed in a six-hour encounter.

Army on Friday conducted a joint mock drill with the Punjab Police in Pathankot to see their preparedness to thwart any attempted terrorists strike, ahead of terror attack at Dinanagar completing a year.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) was today allowed by a Special Court to conduct a lie-detector test on senior Punjab Police officer Salwinder Singh in connection with the Pathankot terror attack probe.

A Superintendent of Police rank officer of Punjab Police Salwinder Singh was quizzed for the fourth day today by National Investigation Agency (NIA) whose interrogators also questioned his cook and the caretaker of 'Panj Peer Dargah', which the official had claimed to have visited before he was kidnapped by terrorists involved in Pathankot attack.

The Punjab Police officer who was allegedly abducted by terrorists involved in the Pathankot attack on December 31, has appeared before the National Investigation Agency or NIA for questioning in New Delhi today. He is likely to undergo a lie detector test.

After a massive combing operation spanning over three days, security forces today declared that the Air Force station in Pathankot in Punjab was fully sanitised, seven days after six terrorists struck the sprawling facility.

Security has been strengthened around all installations in the country of the Indian Army, Air Force and Navy, in view of the terrorist attack on the air base in Pathankot last weekend.

The police officer who says his car was hijacked by terrorists in Punjab has been summoned to Delhi for questioning by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

No terrorist has been caught in Gurdaspur's Tibri in the three-day operation, but reports of suspicious men seen in the area continue to surface.

Security agencies were on their toes and a combing operation was on in and around Tibri military cantonment area in Punjab, a day after some locals in a nearby village claimed sighting of two men in army fatigue moving in suspicious manner.

The police officer who has said he was abducted by Pakistani terrorists before they raced away with his SUV was "kidnapped" for a second time on Wednesday, with investigators recreating his encounter based on his description of what happened to him on the night of December 31.

The role of a senior Punjab policeman is being investigated, as operations against terrorists who attacked an air force base in Pathankot continued well into a third day.

At a small, remote village in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab, a group of women are gathered in a house to mourn a man who has become a national hero. They sit around Madhu, the daughter of Subedar Major Fateh Singh, who was martyred as he fought the terrorists who opened attack on the Pathankot Air Force base early on Saturday morning.

Superintendent of Police Baljit Singh who laid down his life fighting heavily-armed terrorists from Pakistan in Gurdaspur last month, is among three policemen of Punjab chosen for the top police medal on the eve of Independence day.