After finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday cancelled his participation in the India Today Conclave apparently because of the presence of controversial author Salman Rushdie who, according to the organisers, was the “gala night speaker” at the event’s concluding session. Mr Abdullah’s newly-appointed counterpart in UP Akhilesh Yadav was only to follow suit ostensibly for the same reason.

Curfew has been re-imposed in Rajouri following fresh clashes in the frontier town of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, a day after round-the-clock restrictions had been lifted.

Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, now in its budget session in winter capital Jammu, on Monday witnessed pandemonium over the alleged embezzlement of funds in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA), closing with a protest walkout of Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The faculty of veterinary sciences and animal husbandry at Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology here has made a breakthrough by successfully cloning the world’s first pash

The police on Friday detained the spouse of a top Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant declared fugitive by National Investigating Agency (NIA) probing the September 7, 2011 Delhi high court blast and her parents from a remote village of Jammu and Kashmir’s eastern district of Kishtwar for questioning.

A Territorial Army (TA) jawan opened indiscriminate fire from his service weapon killing two women residents and wounding two other persons, including his wife in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier town of Poonch on Wednesday.

The two suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operatives whose claimed arrest from Tughlaqabad Extension in South Delhi was described by Union home minister P. Chidamabaram as “a very important breakthrough” and had complimented the security agencies for it have been identified. They are Tauseef Ahmed Pir and his cousin Ahtisham Ahmed Malik, both residents of Sopore, a town 48-km northwest of Srinagar.

The verbal as well as physical brush witnessed in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on September 29 last year over the issue of granting clemency to Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru or sending him to gallows was replicated on the floor of the House on Monday leading to forcible eviction of lone Independent member Sheikh Abdur Rashid by marshals.

This year’s pilgrimage to Amarnath will begin on June 25 and conclude on August 2, coinciding with Shravan Purnima or Raksha Bandhan.

At least, 16 Army soldiers have been killed and three others are reported trapped as two avalanches swept their camps at Dawar in Gurez valley close to the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s northern district of Bandipore and at Sonamarg, a meadow frequented by tourists in summer. Thirteen soldiers have been rescued, some of them in injured condition.