Pahalgam Terror Attack Live Updates: India Suspends Exchange of All Inbound Mails, Parcels from Pakistan

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out maiden flight-trials of Stratospheric Airship Platform from Sheopur Trial site in Madhya Pradesh today. 

Dr Krishnamurthy Subramanian as Executive Director (India) at the International Monetary Fund terminated with immediate effect.

Pakistan Ranger caught on Pakistan border in Sri Ganganagar. Pakistan Ranger was trying to cross the border and enter Indian territory.

India considers Pakistan's test launch of a ballistic missile on Saturday amid escalating tensions between the two countries over the Pahalgam terror attack as a "blatant" act of "provocation".

Srinagar Police Intensifies Searches At the Residences of Terrorist Associates In Connection with Investigation of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Indian Navy Chief Dinesh Tripathi is briefing the NSA at LKM. 

Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah leaves from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official residence after meeting him.

Pahalgam Terror Attack Live Updates: SriLankan Airlines said that Flight UL 122, operated by aircraft 4R-ALS, arrived in Colombo from Chennai at 11:59 hrs today, underwent a comprehensive security inspection upon arrival.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is scheduled to arrive at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence shortly for a meeting

Special Counter terrorism forces have launched search operations in dense forests near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir Valley.

Angola is today India's 40 percent of land mass with 35 million people. There was massive mining during the civil war: MEA

As tensions escalate along the India-Pakistan border after the horrific terror attack in Pahalgam, residents of Tanot village in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer, located just 20 kilometres from the Line of Control (LoC), are expressing both concern and resilience.
Basru Ram, a long-time resident of Tanot, recalled the days of the 1965 war and said that he has lived in the region for 50 years but even today, the government has not provided much support to the citizens residing in the region.

PM Modi Vows to Avenge Pahalgam, Slams Terrorism

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravinder Raina on Saturday accused the Congress party of betraying the nation after Congress MP and former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi casted doubts on the 2019 surgical strikes carried out by the Indian armed forces in response to the Pulwama terror attack, which claimed the lives of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans.
 

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sambit Patra on Saturday launched a scathing attack against the Congress after its leader Charanjit Singh Channi demanded proof for the surgical strikes carried out by the armed forces, labelling the party's working committee (CWC) as the Pakistan Working Committee.

"From the outside, they are the Congress Working Committee (CWC), but from the inside, they are PWC (Pakistan Working Committee)," Patra said in a press conference.

He said that it was the planning of the opposition party to hold a parallel press conference and cast doubts over the surgical strike carried out by the armed forces in retaliation against the 2019 Pulwama attack.
 

India Halts All Imports from Pakistan Amid Pahalgam Attack Tensions

Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district have imposed an immediate ban on the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), citing national security concerns. The move comes after intelligence inputs suggested that VPNs were being used to facilitate unlawful activities and spread inflammatory content to incite unrest in the region.

The ban, which came into effect on Friday, will remain in force for two months. Officials stated that the decision aims to curb the misuse of digital platforms to destabilize peace and order in the district.

BJP Slams Congress for Undermining Terror Attack, Accused of Lowering Army Morale

Amid a reported manpower crisis, the Pakistan Army has begun training local youth in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to use firearms and prepare them for deployment along the border with India, according to intelligence inputs.

Sources said the decision comes in light of a growing shortage of regular soldiers in the Pakistani Army. In response, the Army is allegedly turning to residents of PoK, primarily young men, and enrolling them in makeshift training camps.

These camps are believed to be operational in several areas across PoK and are reportedly being run with direct support from terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba. Intelligence officials claim that recruits are being taught to handle arms and ammunition, along with guerrilla tactics commonly used in cross-border infiltration.

According to security agencies, this shift reflects Pakistan's increasing reliance on proxy elements to maintain pressure along the Line of Control (LoC). Many of these training centres overlap with known terror hubs where groups such as Lashkar have long maintained infrastructure for radicalisation and combat instruction.

Officials believe that the Pakistan Army's desperation to fill its ranks could lead to a fresh wave of infiltration attempts in the coming weeks. Security has been heightened across forward posts in Jammu and Kashmir in anticipation of possible border activity involving these newly trained recruits.

In a fresh development in the Pahalgam terror attack probe, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is currently questioning two overground workers of the Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit inside Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal Jail. The two individuals—Nissar Ahmed and Mushtaq Hussain—are already in custody for their role in past terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.

According to official sources, the NIA is probing their suspected links with the group that carried out the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, which left 26 people dead. Investigators suspect that some of the terrorists involved in earlier attacks in Rajouri district during 2023 could also have played a role in the Pahalgam strike.

Nissar and Mushtaq were arrested in 2023 for their involvement in two major terror incidents. The first was the Dhangri terror attack in Rajouri on January 1, 2023, in which seven civilians were killed. The second was the April 20 ambush in Bhatta Durrian area of Poonch’s Mendhar region, where five Indian Army personnel lost their lives.

The NIA is exploring whether there’s a larger network connecting these previous incidents to the Pahalgam attack, possibly involving sleeper cells and logistical support from Lashkar overground workers.