On Saturday afternoon, an Indian Army Major was killed while he was in the process of defusing an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) placed close to the Line of Control at Nowshera sector of Rajouri district in J&K. A soldier, who was injured in the blast, has been admitted in a hospital
in Udhampur.

Major Chirtesh Bisht (31) was to go on leave from Sunday to his hometown in Dehradun, where he would have got married on March 7. He had got engaged just six months ago.