2:55 pm: NOTAM (Notice to Airmen to alert aircraft pilots of potential hazards along a flight route) has been withdrawn. Flight operations will resume.
2:50 pm: Nepal Home Secretary: Helicopter carrying Nepal’s tourism minister crashes. It is suspected to have crashed in Tehrathum district.
2:41 pm: Sources: IAF pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan took off in a MiG 21 Bison jet today, he is yet to return.
2:34 pm: IGP Kashmir SP Pani on today’s Shopian encounter: Two terrorists belonging to JeM were killed in today’s encounter. One terrorist belonged to Pakistan and one was a local. Police has started investigation.
2:31 pm: Air India official: Air India avoiding route of Pakistan air space with immediate effect. India use Pakistan airspace for flights to Gulf countries, Europe and USA
2:25 pm: In wake of the prevailing condition on the border, Congress has postponed the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting and rally scheduled to be held in Ahmedabad tomorrow.
1:54 pm: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley: This used to be just an imagination, a desire, a frustration, a disappointment. But today this is possible.
1:53 pm: Finance minister Arun Jaitley: A week is too long a time for any country. If you look at last 24 hours, one week would appear to be a day. The kind of things we see…I remember when the US Navy SEALs had taken Osama Bin Laden from Abbottabad (Pakistan),then can’t we do the same?
1:15 pm: Uttarakhand: Flight operations at Dehradun airport also have been temporarily suspended.
12:39 pm: Sources: International flights that transit between Indian and Pakistani airspace now being affected. Some flights returning to origin, while others appear to be seeking alternate routing.
12:38 am: Punjab: Passengers stranded as flight operations at Amritsar airport have been suspended.
12:34 pm: Pakistan immediately stops its domestic and international flight operations from Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Sialkot and Islamabad airports.
12:01 pm: Flight operations have been suspended at Amritsar airport.
12:56 pm: Mohammad Faisal, Pakistan’s MoFA spokesperson: PAF undertook strikes across LoC from Pakistani airspace. Sole purpose of this action was to demonstrate our right, will and capability for self defence. We do not wish to escalate but are fully prepared if forced into that paradigm.
12:12 pm: SSP Budgam on military aircraft crash in J&Ks Budgam: Some aircraft has fallen. As of now we aren’t in a position to ascertain anything. Technical team is here, they’ll ascertain facts. We have found 2 bodies so far and have evacuated them. Search is going on here.
12 pm: Parachute seen as Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 was going down, condition of the pilot is unknown.
11:59 am: Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 that violated Indian air space shot down in Indian retaliatory fire 3KM within Pakistan territory in Lam valley, Nowshera sector.
11:28 am: Civilian air traffic to and fro Srinagar airport suspended: officials.
11:10 am: Jammu and Kashmir: IAF plane crashes in Budgam, pilot martyred.
