By being the only chief minister to be invited to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s dinner for the visiting US President Barack Obama, Omar Abdullah got his much-hoped-for opportunity to meet him and Michelle Obama. While whatever may have been the subject of their conversation, the fact remains that in all the public speaking that Mr Obama did in Mumbai or New Delhi, which included a reasonably strong reference to Pakistan and terrorist groups there, he did not utter the word “Kashmir”.

US President Barack Hussein Obama, beginning his India tour from Mumbai, staying at the Taj, having a meeting at the Gateway of India and both Mr Obama and his wife Michelle dancing with kids to the t

The third phase in the Kashmir Valley (the first being three months of shouting and stoning and the second being the all-party delegation’s visit followed by an eight-point package), marked by new rab

Defence minister A.K. Antony visited Washington on September 27-28, with a high-level delegation, which included the Eastern Army Commander Lt. Gen.

Within three days of the visit of the all-party delegation to Jammu and Srinagar, the Centre has offered an eight-point initiative for peace in Kashmir.

As a delayed and extended in monsoon lashes and floods plains in both India and Pakistan like never before in the past century, it is raining stones in India’s Kashmir Valley.

Having given its ritual call to boycot Independence Day 2010 in the north-eastern region, with threats of attacks and some bomb blasts preceding it, the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) — which

Having given its ritual call to boycot Independence Day 2010 in the north-eastern region, with threats of attacks and some bomb blasts preceding it, the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) — which has been trying desperately to regroup under the aegis of its elusive boss Paresh Baruah — has tied up with the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and is attempting to garner support from Manipur-based terrorist groups. The Ulfa and the NDFB are engaging the Manipur People’s Liberation

The unprecedented flash floods in Pakistan, with no early warning, have only meant much more than insult after the injury of undisclosed collateral damage of thousands of people killed and displaced by the Pakistan Army “clamping down” with artillery and aerial bombardment on Taliban and other terrorist groups (almost all raised and

The dark horse has bolted out of the stable and is bucking and rearing but none of the cowboys around are trying to lasso it, forget saddling it.