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. Greece
- On November 27, 2003, the Greek authorities made gas mask available to people using Athens' subway.
- On August 27, 2004, about 6,000 people marched through the Athens' centre to protest against American's policy in Iraq. It is the biggest anti-American showing yet during the Olympic games. The protesters, many of whom made a point of saying they dislike American foreign policy, not Americans. During the protest, an American flag was burned, an American reporter was hit in the face with a handful of gravel, and there were numerous signs and chants urging "USA out of Iraq."
- US Secretary of State Colin Powell had decided to participate at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens. The day before, Saturday August 28, 2004, he cancelled his plans citing a busy work schedule. The announcement came only hours after clashes erupted in Athens as protesters rallied to condemn the planned visit.

- Attackers have fired a rocket at the US embassy compound in the centre of the Greek capital, Athens, on January 12, 2007. The rocket, fired from street level into the front of the embassy, caused minor damage to the building but nobody was injured. ---

- On Monday April 4, 2016, the first boats carrying migrants being deported from Greece have arrived in Turkey as part of an EU plan aimed at easing mass migration to Europe. 202 people who left Lesbos and Chios, have arrived at Dikili in western Turkey. Under the deal, for each Syrian migrant returned to Turkey, the EU is due to take in another Syrian who has made a legitimate request. Thirty-two Syrian migrants were the first to arrive in Germany from Turkey. They were flown to Hanover in Lower Saxony. The Greek authorities say 130 of those returned to Turkey on Monday were from Pakistan. There were 42 migrants from Afghanistan and others from Iran, Sri Lanka and Morocco, as well as several other countries. Two Syrians were on board, and the Greek authorities insisted that those deported only included migrants who had not sought asylum.

.Hong Kong
On January 6, 2003, 3 men in Hong Kong - two Pakistani and an Indian-born US citizen- agreed to be extradited to the US. They are accused of wanting to trade drugs for anti-aircraft missiles to sell to al-Qaida. Their names are Syed Saadat Ali Faraaz, Muhammed Abid Afridi and Ilyas Ali, the naturalised US citizen.

. Hungary
A US military training programme that was supposed to train up to 3,000 Iraqi exiles in Hungary to take part in the war against Saddam Hussein has been closed at the end of April 2003. Only 100 recruits participated in the programme.

On July 27, 2004, Hungary pledged not to withdraw its forces from Iraq, despite growing public pressure to do so after a Hungarian soldier was killed and other Eastern European coalition members were kidnapped and murdered in separate incidents. Secretary Powell expressed gratitude for the assistance Hungary and nine other former Communist countries are providing to Iraq, Afghanistan or both.

Fifty years after Hungary's revolt against communism, President Bush said Thursday June 22, 2006, that war-weary Iraqis can learn from this country's long and bloody struggle against tyranny. "Liberty can be delayed but it cannot be denied," the president said.

. India
- On July 7, 2004, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to issue a statement that the government had no intentions of sending troops to Iraq. External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh came under fire after allegedly saying to the overseas press while in the US that his country could do it. Natwar Singh kept denying that he had made any such statement and that he had not deviated from the consensus opinion reached under the BJP regime that no troops would be deployed in Iraq.
- On July 10, 2004, there were signs that India and Iraq are trying to forge a closer partnership. New Delhi let Iraq reopen its consulate-general in Mumbai. New Delhi will increase the strength of its mission in Iraq when the security situation stabilises and will send a new ambassador to Baghdad. However India will not commit troops to Iraq, only aid.
- On August 28, 2004, India said it will help Iraq and Afghanistan conduct their upcoming elections under an agreement between New Delhi and the United Nations. Under the agreement signed in New Delhi India would provide assistance "wherever the UN thinks India's services could be useful".

On July 12, 2006, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has reacted angrily to suggestions his country could be to blame for the Mumbai train bombings. He said India should be careful about linking the attacks, which killed 200 people, to militants based in Pakistan. India's foreign ministry has called on Pakistan to take action against militants operating from its territory. Police have detained about 300 people for questioning in a series of raids, and released sketches of suspects. ---

A major terror bid may have been foiled on January 1, 2015 by the North-West Coast Guard. A 'terror' boat which is believed to have sailed from Pakistan's Karachi was intercepted by the Coast Guard off Porbander coast. The Coast Guard ship warned the fishing boat to stop for further investigation of the crew and cargo; however, the boat increased speed and tried to escape away from the Indian side of maritime boundary, the government said. The hot pursuit continued for nearly one hour and the Coast Guard ship managed to stop the fishing boat after firing warning shots. Four persons were seen on the boat who disregarded all warnings by the Coast Guard ship to stop and cooperate with investigation. Soon thereafter, the crew hid themselves in below deck compartment and set the boat on fire, which resulted in explosion and major fire on the boat.

Indian government is preparing to carry out another evacuation from Yemen. Two ships will go to Yemen to evacuate Indians, including Keralites, stranded there. Since all the airports in Yemen are closed, the plan is to bring people to the neighbouring country Djibouti by ships and from there to India in aircraft we were told on Saturday March 28, 2015.

On Friday April 10, 2015, the man accused of masterminding the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai has walked free from a Pakistani jail after detention orders against him were dropped. The decision of Lahore’s high court to release Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged military chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, was described as an “insult to the victims” of the attack, in which 166 people were killed. Delhi is frustrated by Pakistan’s seven-year failure to successfully prosecute any of those allegedly involved in sending a boatload of young suicide attackers to India’s financial capital.

On Saturday April 11, 2015, India has formally protested to Pakistan over its decision to release on bail the suspected mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. The US and France also voiced concern. Pakistan hit back, blaming India for what it called "inordinate delay in extending co-operation" over the case. Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was released from jail in Rawalpindi on Friday morning. He had been granted bail in December, but was kept in detention under public order legislation.

The Indian army killed three militants along the disputed border with Pakistan early on Saturday June 6, 2015, foiling the third infiltration attempt in the past two weeks. The Indian army, which killed 59 militants near the so called Line of Control (LoC) separating Indian- and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir last year, says it has seen a rise in infiltration attempts in recent weeks. The army killed four militants during a 16-hour gun battle in Kashmir last week. ---

India's army said it shot dead three militants from Pakistan on Sunday August 21, 2016, following an attack by the gunmen two days earlier on an Indian border post in the disputed Kashmir region. The militants were killed in the Tanghdar sector of North Kashmir; three rifles and military supplies had been recovered from the scene. Indian troops have killed 103 militants in the Kashmir Valley so far this year, the highest toll in recent years. 56 militants have crossed into Kashmir this year through July, up from 36 in the same period last year. India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, its northernmost state of which Kashmir forms a part. Muslim-majority Kashmir has been convulsed by protests since the killing by security forces of a field commander of a Pakistan-based militant outfit on July 8, with at least 65 people killed and 6,000 wounded in clashes with security forces. India and Pakistan have been engaged in a diplomatic back-and-forth to try to arrange talks between their foreign secretaries but they have yet to agree a date or specify the agenda. India is not willing to discuss the status of the part of Kashmir that it controls.

India has accused Pakistan of involvement in a deadly raid on a Kashmir army base that killed 17 soldiers, labelling its neighbour “a terrorist state”. Sunday morning’s attack (September 18, 2016) on the army camp near the disputed border with Pakistan was among the deadliest against security forces in Kashmir history, and sparked grief and anger across India. The death toll could yet grow, with about 35 soldiers injured, some critically. Four Fedayeen –highly trained militants on what are essentially suicide missions– died in the three-hour assault on the base at Uri, near the militarised “line of control” that divides Indian Kashmir from the Pakistan-controlled side. None of the four men was from the Indian side and that some of their equipment had Pakistani markings.
 
India Saturday September 24, 2016:

• India's prime minister said that he would work to isolate Pakistan internationally, accusing his country's arch-rival of trying to destabilize Asia by exporting terrorism. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that in the last four months, Indian security forces have killed 110 terrorists who crossed over the cease-fire line in Kashmir from Pakistani territory. There would have been a bloodbath had they succeeded in carrying out attacks in India," Modi said.
• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at Pakistan accusing it of "exporting terrorists" after a deadly attack on an army base that New Delhi has blamed on Pakistan-based militants. Modi's comments were the latest in a war of words between the neighbours over escalating tensions in disputed Kashmir, where 18 Indian soldiers were killed last week in the worst attack in the region for over a decade.

 

Pakistan continues to believe terrorist attacks will allow it to obtain territory it covets in Jammu and Kashmir, India's foreign minister said Monday September 26, 2016. In her speech before the U.N. General Assembly, Sushma Swaraj also rejected accusations made by Pakistan's prime minister from the same podium last week that India violates human rights, calling them "baseless”. She said India has a man in custody "whose confession is a living proof of Pakistan's complicity in cross-border terror. But when confronted with such evidence, Pakistan remains in denial.

On Monday September 26, 2016, India has told Pakistan to abandon its dream of obtaining territory in Jammu and Kashmir through what it describes as terrorist attacks. India's foreign minister also used her speech to the United Nations General Assembly to reject accusations from Pakistan that India had violated human rights. Pakistan immediately responded, describing the speech by Sushma Swaraj as a "litany of falsehoods".

Elite troops have launched “surgical strikes” on Pakistan-based terrorists in the contested territory of Kashmir, India said on Thursday September 29, 2016, in a major escalation of a deepening crisis between the nuclear-armed rivals. Troops conducted multiple night-time raids across the line of control (LOC), the ceasefire line agreed in 1972 that divides the Himalayan region, to attack militants preparing to cross into Indian-controlled territory. Pakistan said two of its soldiers had been killed in exchanges of fire, but denied India had made any targeted strikes. Pakistan later captured an Indian soldier on its side of the border who had inadvertently crossed the frontier and had nothing to do with the earlier raids. It is the first time the Indian army has publicly acknowledged that its troops have launched raids across the LOC.

Fresh fire was exchanged between India and Pakistan on Saturday October 1, 2016, in the Kashmir region. Both sides blamed one another as tensions grew in an increasingly hostile relationship between the neighbouring countries. A Pakistani military statement said that: "Pakistani troops responded to Indian unprovoked firing." A senior Indian army official said: "Pakistani troops today violated the ceasefire along Pallanwala sector of Akhnoor area of Jammu." "They targeted five of our posts with small arms and we also responded and fired back. However, there was no damage." The latest development in the ongoing conflict comes two days after Indian troops are said to have crossed the Pakistan border of Kashmir, killing suspected militants in what they called a "surgical strike".

Indian and Pakistani troops fired at each other in disputed Kashmir on Monday October 3, 2016, as Indian troops searched an army camp elsewhere in the region where suspected militants killed an Indian paramilitary soldier. The exchange of gunfire lasted about five hours and caused no casualties. The army said earlier that Pakistani troops had fired without provocation using small arms and mortar shells in the Poonch sector of the Line of Control separating the Indian and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir. Pakistan's army said in a statement that its troops were responding to unprovoked firing by Indian soldiers. ---

India started constructing underground bunkers along its frontier with Pakistan in Kashmir in the past two weeks, amid growing fears the nuclear-armed rivals are preparing for a major escalation in conflict. The Indians said that cross-border gunfire in northern Kashmir now occurs “every night. Work on the bunkers began after a deadly militant attack on India’s Uri army base in north Kashmir on September 18, which killed 19 soldiers and provoked massive public anger in India.

At least three more people, including an Indian soldier, were killed in fresh shelling across the India- Pakistan border on Sunday 23 October, 2016. India's Border Security Force (BSF) accused Pakistan of violating the ceasefire twice on the day, following which their soldiers gave a "suitable reply". One soldier was killed in the overnight firing and another injured, along with five civilians, including two women and a child. Pakistan's military said that one of the two civilian casualties included a one-year-old child in the village of Janglora.

Seven members of a family were injured as a Pakistani shell fell on a house in Suchetgarh village in R S Pura tehsil on Tuesday October 25, 2016. The victims were busy with their daily chores inside the house when an 82 mm mortar shell fell within their premises. All the injured happened to be females and after first aid, they were admitted to Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu.

Pakistan on Friday October 28, 2016, accused India of killing three civilians (including a women and a girl) and wounding five others in cross-border fire, as tensions soar in disputed Kashmir. The incident occurred in Nakyal sector, near the frontier dividing Indian-held Kashmir from Pakistan's Punjab province.

On Friday October 28, 2016, an Indian soldier was killed and his body mutilated by terrorists in an encounter in Machhil sector of Kupwara district, near the Line of Control (LoC), in Jammu and Kashmir. A terrorist was also killed in the incident; the Army warned of an “appropriate response”.

A day after an Indian soldier's body was mutilated by terrorists who escaped back into Pakistani under covering fire from Pakistani troops, the Indian army said on Saturday October 29, 2016, that it had hit back, destroying four Pakistani posts and inflicting "heavy casualties". The posts were destroyed in a massive fire assault in Keran sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara. Sepoy Mandeep Singh, who was killed in the gunfight with the infiltrators on Friday, was beheaded by the terrorists who fled back to Pakistan-administered Kashmir under covering fire from Pakistan Army.

Pakistan accused India Monday October 31, 2016, of killing four civilians and wounding six others in cross-border fire, amid heightened tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals. The incident occurred in Nakyal sector near the border dividing Indian-held Kashmir from Pakistan's Punjab province.

Pakistani troops Tuesday November 1, 2016, shelled Indian civilian areas along the border from Samba to Poonch, leaving eight persons dead and at least 20 others injured. Among the dead were two children and four women. Pakistani troops used 82 mm and 120 mm mortar shells on civilian areas including Mendhar town. ---

Undergoing treatment for severe neck, spinal and abdominal injuries at a hospital, 14-month-old Pari is a testimony of the “barbarism” unleashed by the Pakistan Rangers on unarmed civilians on the Indian side. The girl has lost her grandfather, an aunt and two cousins in the cross-border shelling by Pakistan on her village in Rangoor Camp on November 1. She underwent a lifesaving surgery at the Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital on Wednesday November 2, 2016.

Indian Army had used guns to destroy four Pakistani posts in a massive assault across the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district last month we were told Friday November 4, 2016. This is the first time the government sources have confirmed that artillery fire was indeed used by the Army to launch a massive assault against Pakistan, something which was always suspected.

Pakistani shelling killed two Indian soldiers at posts along the border of Indian-administered Kashmir on Sunday November 6, 2016; five others including three civilians were injured.

Pakistan accused India of killing three people including a policeman, a man and a woman, and wounding four others in cross-border firing at a time of heightened tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals. The incidents occurred near the border dividing Indian-held Kashmir from the Pakistani sector of the territory, in the Nakyal sector.

India Tuesday November 8, 2016:

• Indian and Pakistani troops once again traded fire across the Line of Control in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir killing three civilians and wounding four others on the Pakistani side, and killing one Indian soldier.
• Indian troops fired shells and mortars in frontier villages. One shell hit a house, killing a woman, her daughter and wounding another person who died on the way to a hospital.
• Four civilians were wounded in other villages along the Line of Control.

Pakistan Monday November 14, 2016:

• Seven soldiers have been killed by Indian firing on the frontline of the contested Himalayan region of Kashmir.
• The incident happened in the Bhimber sector of the line of control. Pakistani troops responded to Indian unprovoked firing by targeting Indian posts.

ia Saturday November 19, 2016:

• India fired mortar shells targeting a village along the disputed Line of Control (LOC), leaving three children killed and three others injured.
• Two girls and their brother died when mortar shells fired by Indian troops hit their house in Kotli district. The eldest girl was aged 10 and the youngest girl was five. All belonged to the same family.

India Monday November 21, 2016:

• Indian shelling has targeted several villages in Kashmir, killing four civilians and wounding 10. Pakistan fired back. There was no immediate comment from India.

On Monday November 21, 2016, four people, including two children and a woman, have been killed and 10 others wounded in cross-border fire in disputed Kashmir. There are reports of heavy casualties of Indian soldiers due to effective retaliatory fire by Pakistani troops, claiming at least six Indian troops had been killed.

India, Tuesday November 22, 2016:

• Three Indian soldiers were killed along the highly militarized de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
• The attackers also mutilated the body of one soldier in Machil sector in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

At least nine civilians were killed, and nine injured, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir when an Indian artillery shell hit a passenger bus in the disputed region on Wednesday November 30, 2016. The ambulance heading to the site came under attack as well. The bus was heading towards Muzaffarabad from Kel when it came under attack.

A Pakistani school bus driver was killed and several children were wounded on Friday December 16, 2016, in an Indian firing along the frontier in the disputed Kashmir region. A shell landed near a school bus in Mohra village of Nakyal sector, leaving the driver dead and eight children wounded. The firing was a violation of a 2003 ceasefire, the Pakistani army said in a statement. ---

India Sunday April 9, 2017:

• The Indian army killed four suspected rebels who attempted to cross into the Indian-administered part of Kashmir at the unofficial border dividing the disputed territory with Pakistan.
• The shootout happened when soldiers guarding the border known as the Line of Control (LoC) intercepted four armed men in Keran, 140 kilometres northwest of Srinagar.

India Wednesday May 3, 2017:

• India has summoned Pakistan's ambassador to demand that Islamabad take action over the alleged killing and mutilation of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani forces.
• The troops were killed and dismembered on Monday in an ambush along the highly militarised Line of Control -the de-facto border in the disputed region of Kashmir- and said Pakistani soldiers were to blame. Pakistan has denied the claim.

India Tuesday June 20, 2017:

• Fifteen Muslim men have been arrested for shouting "anti-India and pro-Pakistan" slogans during the Champions Trophy cricket final. The men were denied bail in Madhya Pradesh state after appearing in court where they were charged with sedition.
• They were arrested after their Hindu neighbours complained that they had burst firecrackers and shouted "pro-Pakistan" slogans during the game. Pakistan won the final, defeating India by 180 runs.

India Friday June 30, 2017:

• Two women were injured in fresh ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops in Baramulla and Poonch. Naseem Akhter, a resident of Dharati Balakote in Poonch, was injured when Pakistan resorted to firing and shelling, which was retaliated “in equal measure”. Another woman identified as Shakeela, 45, sustained splinter injuries at her residence in Baramulla’s Uri sector. She was staying at Behak Dardkote.

India Monday August 7, 2017:

• The Indian Army killed five militants in the Machil sector of the LoC who were trying to enter from Pakistan across a disputed Kashmir frontier.
• India and Pakistan have been in a confrontation for decades across the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border separating parts of Kashmir held by both countries. ---

India Monday October 2, 2017:

• Indian and Pakistani troops fired at each other in the disputed Kashmir region killing a 10-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl and injuring 12 other civilians on the Indian side.
• The boy and girl were killed in firing by Pakistani soldiers in the Poonch sector on the Indian-administered side of Kashmir. The injured included a 5-year-old girl

India Sunday December 31, 2017:

• Pakistani troops again violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control in Rajouri and Poonch district of Jammu Kashmir killing an Army jawan.
• The jawan, posted in a forward area in Noushera sector of Rajouri district, was killed when he was hit by a bullet from across the border. Pakistani troops also fired indiscriminately in Digwar sector of nearby Poonch district.

India Sunday February 4, 2018:

• Indian and Pakistani officials traded accusations following the deaths of four Indian soldiers and one Pakistani civilian, who were killed during an exchange of gunfire along the highly militarized de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir between the nuclear-armed rivals. Two Pakistani children and two Indian soldiers were injured.
• India said Pakistan started firing artillery and small arms onto Indian positions, while a Pakistani official said Indian forces started the violence by firing onto the Pakistani side. Each said their forces returned fire only in retaliation.

India Thursday March 1, 2018:

• Pakistan said an “unprovoked” Indian attack killed two soldiers and a 70-year-old villager in the disputed Kashmir region.
• Pakistan’s army returned fire after coming under attack, causing “substantial” damage to Indian military posts. It was unclear whether Indian troops suffered any casualties.
• The two nuclear-armed rivals each claim Kashmir in its entirety, and have gone to war over the region twice since they gained independence from Britain in 1947.

India Sunday March 18, 2018:

• Five members of a family were killed and at least eight other people injured in cross-border shelling between Indian and Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir.
• The five were killed after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home in the Poonch region of India-controlled Kashmir along the militarized Line of Control that divides the Himalayan territory between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
• The dead included a 35-year-old man and his 32-year-old wife, and three of their children —two young boys and a teenage boy. Two of the couple's daughters, one 7 and the other 12, were among the injured. The family had gathered in their kitchen for breakfast when a shell hit their home. ---

India Monday October 2, 2017:

• Indian and Pakistani troops fired at each other in the disputed Kashmir region killing a 10-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl and injuring 12 other civilians on the Indian side.
• The boy and girl were killed in firing by Pakistani soldiers in the Poonch sector on the Indian-administered side of Kashmir. The injured included a 5-year-old girl

India Sunday December 31, 2017:

• Pakistani troops again violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control in Rajouri and Poonch district of Jammu Kashmir killing an Army jawan.
• The jawan, posted in a forward area in Noushera sector of Rajouri district, was killed when he was hit by a bullet from across the border. Pakistani troops also fired indiscriminately in Digwar sector of nearby Poonch district.

India Sunday February 4, 2018:

• Indian and Pakistani officials traded accusations following the deaths of four Indian soldiers and one Pakistani civilian, who were killed during an exchange of gunfire along the highly militarized de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir between the nuclear-armed rivals. Two Pakistani children and two Indian soldiers were injured.
• India said Pakistan started firing artillery and small arms onto Indian positions, while a Pakistani official said Indian forces started the violence by firing onto the Pakistani side. Each said their forces returned fire only in retaliation.

India Thursday March 1, 2018:

• Pakistan said an “unprovoked” Indian attack killed two soldiers and a 70-year-old villager in the disputed Kashmir region.
• Pakistan’s army returned fire after coming under attack, causing “substantial” damage to Indian military posts. It was unclear whether Indian troops suffered any casualties.
• The two nuclear-armed rivals each claim Kashmir in its entirety, and have gone to war over the region twice since they gained independence from Britain in 1947.

India Sunday March 18, 2018:

• Five members of a family were killed and at least eight other people injured in cross-border shelling between Indian and Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir.
• The five were killed after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home in the Poonch region of India-controlled Kashmir along the militarized Line of Control that divides the Himalayan territory between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
• The dead included a 35-year-old man and his 32-year-old wife, and three of their children —two young boys and a teenage boy. Two of the couple's daughters, one 7 and the other 12, were among the injured. The family had gathered in their kitchen for breakfast when a shell hit their home. ---

a Tuesday April 10, 2018:

• Two Indian soldiers were killed in firing by Pakistani troops along the highly militarized frontier that divides Kashmir between the two rivals.
• Pakistani soldiers used mortars and automatic gunfire overnight to strike at Indian positions in Sunderbani sector along the Line of Control in violation of the 2003 cease-fire accord between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
• The Pakistani firing and shelling were "unprovoked and indiscriminate" and Indian soldiers retaliated "strongly and effectively."

India Wednesday June 13, 2018:

• Indian and Pakistani forces traded fire along the highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir after Pakistani firing killed at least four Indian paramilitary soldiers and injured three others on border patrol.
• Indian border guards said Pakistani soldiers first targeted a soldier around midnight by sniper fire as the Indian soldiers patrolled a border area in the Jammu region.
• As other soldiers tried to rescue their fallen comrade, Pakistani soldiers opened a volley of gunfire at them, triggering further exchange. Thee soldiers were killed on the spot while the other died later while being evacuated.
• Pakistan denied initiating the firing, saying its soldiers only responded to the Indian "unprovoked" fire. Islamabad also summoned an Indian diplomat to protest a civilian's killing.
• The nuclear-armed nations had recently agreed to stop fire exchanges along the volatile frontier and uphold a cease-fire accord dating back 15 years.
• Pakistan said India troops also targeted a village in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, killing a villager who was grazing cattle in a field near his home.

India Tuesday October 9, 2018:

• U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's crude oil exports come into force from November 4, with Washington ratcheting up the pressure on governments and companies around the world to slash their Iranian oil imports to zero.
• However, Indian Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said India would continue to purchase Iranian crude in November.
• The country was considering evolving a different payment system to buy Iran's oil and that it could pay using Indian rupees.

India Friday November 23, 2018:

• Two medical students on a bike were killed at the brand new Signature Bridge in Delhi after ramming a divider at a high speed and falling 30 feet.
• Satya Vijay Shankaran and Chandrashekhar, both studying medicine at the Hindu Rao Medical College in north Delhi, fell off the bridge. The police suspect they were trying to take a selfie while speeding on the KTM Duke bike.
• One biker's foot was allegedly caught in a stray wire from a streetlight. The bike, moving at a high speed, was flung up in the air. The bike was left dangling from a railing and the riders fell.
• This is the first accident at the bridge, which opened to the public on November 4 after eight years of construction.
• Over the past few weeks, the bridge described as an engineering marvel has emerged as a site for daring selfies and traffic violations. Thrill-seekers are often spotted climbing the suspension cables to take selfies.

India Saturday October 19, 2019:

• In heavy retaliation to Pakistani attempts to infiltrate terrorists into India, Pakistan Army posts and gun positions giving protection to the terror launch pads were hit by the Indian Army in Tangdhar sector in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) across the Line of Control (LoC).
• At least three terror launch pads in Jura, Athmuqam and Kundalsahi in PoK were targeted and destroyed by the Indian Army. Five Pakistani Army personnel were killed in the retaliatory firing by the Indian Army.
• The action by the Indian Army was taken after posts assisting terrorist infiltration were identified and hit after Pakistan used artillery fire targeting civilian areas.
• The Indian Army which had specific inputs about the presence of terrorists in the area started targeted the terror launch pads using the artillery guns by firing deep inside the territory controlled by Pakistan.
• At least three terror camps have been damaged badly in the Indian Army's action, the sources said. They added that the number of terrorists present in each of the terrorist launch pads was around 40-50 and they were being "protected and aided by Pakistan Army bunkers and troops".
• Later, Pakistan resorted to heavy unprovoked firing on the civilians. One person was killed and three were injured in the Pakistan Army artillery firing in Ghundhishat Village, Tangdhar.