Overview

• After deadly clashes in Leh, Ladakh LG Kavinder Gupta led a high-level review and reported four deaths and 90 hospital cases, including seven critical injuries.
• In Srinagar, LG Manoj Sinha chaired the Unified Headquarters with senior Army, police, CAPF, intelligence and civil officials to assess the security posture.
• Sinha urged continued kinetic and non-kinetic operations, pressed a whole-of-government approach against radicalisation and the drug trade, and praised recent anti-terror results.
• Twelve destinations closed following the April Pahalgam attack will reopen on September 29, with seven sites in Kashmir and five in Jammu cleared after the security review.
• An encounter at Seoj Dhar on the Doda–Udhampur border remained active, one soldier was injured, and officials said two to three Pakistani terrorists may be trapped.