The J&K government on Sunday announced to release all those youth who were arrested for their involvement in over 1,200 cases of stone-pelting in the Valley during and after summer 2010 civil unrest.

As many as 12 Islamic militants were killed in the latest and biggest infiltration bid of the season from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.

US Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain arrived in Srinagar on Tuesday on a two-day “familiarisation” visit of Kashmir

Valley. He is being accompanied by foreign policy advisors Christian Brose and Vance Serchuk (HSGAC) and Lt. Lawrence Heyworth, USN, military

Escort, besides some officials of the US embassy, New Delhi.
Soon after his arrival here from New Delhi by a special aircraft, Mr McCain met governor N.N. Vohra at Raj Bhavan overlooking world famous Dal

Lake. “During their wide-ranging discussions lasting for about two hours, Mr McCain and the governor exchanged views on various important issues of

mutual interest,” an official statement said.

In a sequel to such or similar incidents witnessed in the past, the Indian and Pakistan troops on Monday exchanged bullets and sweets on a day when India was celebrating its 65th Independence Day.

Two securitymen were arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police after a mentally ill Hindu civilian seized by them from a Rajouri market was later killed in a fake encounter in the Surankote area of Poonch over the weekend. The

Civilians marched towards an encounter site chanting pro-freedom slogans and started hurling rocks at security forces engaged in a gunfight with a lone militant holed up inside a private house at Puchal, in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern district of Pulwama, on Thursday.

At least half-a-dozen protesters were injured in clashes with the riot police as Sopore, a politically sensitive town 48-km northwest of here, erupted on Sunday following the death of a local youth in

Interpol supposed to chase criminals across borders is being used by some countries including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, Russia and Venezuela to punish political dissenters and opponents, a new invest

Curfew in parts of summer capital Srinagar, a shutdown elsewhere in the Valley and placing key separatist leaders under house arrest or taking them in preventive custody marked the Kashmir “martyrs’ day” on Wednesday.
However, chief minister Omar Abdullah, some of his Cabinet colleagues and leaders of various mainstream

Devotees going to Amarnath in the last days of the yatra, ending August 13, coinciding with Shravana Poornima and Raksha Bandhan, might be disappointed as the Shivling, the most interesting phenomenon of the annual pilgrimage, is melting fast and might even disappear soon.