Militants  

Zakir Musa was the head of the Ansar Ghazwatul Hind. He was persuaded to surrender but is said to have retaliated and fired back at the forces
 

As the joint team of forces intensified the searches and fired some warning shots towards the suspected spot, the terrorists hiding inside opened fire leading to a gunfight in which two militants have been killed
 

Tirong Aboh, his son, security personnel and party workers were shot dead by suspected militants of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland near Bogapani in Tirap district on Tuesday
 

Aboh’s son and nine people were also killed in the ambush allegedly led by the Naga outfit group. Aboh's PSO is also said to be in a critical condition.

According to reports, the gunfight is going on in the forest area of Yarwan in Shopian. It is believed that two to three militants are trapped there
 

In 2010, as many as 270 militants were killed in action by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. The number reduced to 119 in 2011. Then in 2012, 84 ultras were killed, 100 in 2013, 110 (2014), 113 (2015), 165 (2016) and 218 last year

Terror outfits have already threatened to boycott polls. Coincidentally the 17th day of Ramzan is on May 23, and even in past militants have chosen the 17th day of Ramzan, which is also the day of the battle of Jang-e-Badr, to attack security installations in the Valley.
 

Sources quoting the police personnel told MyNation that the security force personnel took the man who was found with explosives for questioning to ascertain the motive behind the explosives, and where he brought these explosives from

Assam chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal took to Twitter to condemn the blast and directed “DGP to immediately apprehend the culprits and ensure the security of common people.”

The exact number of terrorists hiding in the areas could not be established as the operation is still on. However, an army spokesperson confirmed that two militants have been killed in the encounter so far.

Three Hizbul Mujahiddin militants, including Lateef Tiger, who was the only surviving militant of the Burhan Wani group was killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian

Earlier on Wednesday morning, the naxals had set 27 machines and vehicles at a road construction site in Kurkheda on fire. 

In an IED attack by Naxals 16 jawans have been killed on Wednesday in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. The incident happened when a team of the C-60 squad commandoes, an anti-naxal unit, was patrolling the Kurkheda-Korchi road

Recently, addressing a joint press conference in Srinagar, GoC KJS Dhillon and DGP Dilbagh Singh said that many youths returned to the mainstream and their identity stands protected.

‘They were undoubtedly militants… RAB had to fire 150 rounds of bullets to bring the situation under control,’ said the Rapid Action Battalion of the Rapid Action Battalion, describing his department’s encounter with terrorists in Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday