Amid apprehensions of violence, the first day of Amarnath Yatra on Wednesday was not a smooth go as it started amid hiccups from its first base camp at Yatri Niwas in the winter capital of state at the crack of dawn this morning.

Ahead of Indo-Pak foreign secretary-level talks beginning this Thursday and just a day after killing two civilian porters employed by the Army in Machil sector in Kashmir, Pakistan troops on Monday breached truce yet again on the second consecutive day. This time they targeted Indian forward Abdullian post and Casper vehicle of BSF in R.S. Pura sector in Jammu district.

Politicking over the brutal murder of 10-year-old Shalin Gupta by his kidnappers last week touched a new low, with the PDP and NC indulging in direct blame game and accusing each other of shedding crocodile tears over the spine-chilling incident.

All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Sonia Gandhi finally kept her date with the Gujjars by inaugurating “Gujjar Centre for Culture and Heritage” here on Saturday and also used the opportunity to revive age old links of party with the nomadic community with the promise that Centre would “do everything for its development.”

A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was on Tuesday critically injured in hostile firing from Pakistan side of the international border (IB) in Hiranagar sector of Kathua district in Jammu region. While the police claimed it as a “foiled infiltration attempt”, the BSF did not make any such claim.

The recovery of two “spy pigeons” in the past 24 hours in Katra town of Reasi district and Khour area of Akhnoor sector, in Jammu district, has set off alarm bells within the security establishment vis-à-vis new tactics being adopted by militants and their mentors across the border to facilitate terror activities in the state.

It literally proved to be a “black Friday” when around 23 people, including one Army Major, five jawans lost their lives and 79 others sustained injuries in four different road mishaps in the hilly districts of Rajouri and Reasi in Jammu region.

Two Army jawans were killed while three others were injured in militant firing from Pakistan side near Nangi Tekri, forward Indian post in Krishna Ghati sector of Mendhar tehsil, Poonch district, on T

After suffering major setbacks in the form of loss of their main leaders this year, the terrorist outfits in the state have started luring teenagers to meet serious crunch of new recruits.