Handwara

HANDWARA - Shouting pro-freedom slogans, thousands of people in a north Kashmir hamlet Wednesday pledged not to throw stones at security forces as long as the government did not curb peaceful protests and took concrete steps towards solving the over 60-year-old Kashmir issue.

HANDWARA - At least one soldier of the Rashtriya Rifles (RR) killed and another was injured in an encounter in the Rajwad forests of Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday morning.