As India gear up for Diwali, Bollywood stars Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan have sent their special wishes to soldiers of Indian Army. The actors participated in a campaign - #Sandesh2Soldiers – started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking people to send their wishes to jawans fighting for the nation.

Indian soldiers killed two militants who attacked Army camp located in Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday morning. The massive search operation has been launched in the area to catch the other hiding militants.

18 armymen lost their lives and at least 11 were injured on Thursday in a militant attack on their convoy in Manipur's Chandel district. The attack has been marked as the worst Army suffered since the Kargil War of 1999. A counter terror operation has been planned to dig the militants out.

"China is highly attentive to the situation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said while replying to a question on the exchange for fire by Indian and Pakistani forces.

"107 people have died in Jammu and Kashmir due to flash-floods, landslides and house collapses," Singh told reporters in Jammu.