Jammu and Kashmir was put on high alert on Monday with the police, paramilitary forces and Army troops in a state of alacrity to meet possible violent reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden by the US forces in Pakistan.

In the latest incident of fratricide in the Army, a soldier killed four colleagues and seriously injured a fifth at a 42 Rashtriya Rifles camp at Panzpora Chachkote, outside Awamtipora town in southern Kashmir, early on Thursday. The accused, identified as havildar Abhay Kumar of 42 RR, has been arrested and separate investigations into

An unexpected meeting between the Centre’s interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir and prominent separatist leader and Shia cleric Maulvi Abbas Ansari here on Wednesday has set off fresh crisis in the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference.

The Kashmir police on Saturday said it had arrested three persons involved in the murder of the prominent cleric and moderate separatist leader, Maulana Showkat Ahmed Shah, whereas the man who, along with a former militant commander, plotted the killing is currently in detention at Central Jail, Srinagar.

Disregarding hard-line separatist leader Syed Ali Shah’s boycott call, Kashmiris, including women in large numbers, turned up at the polling booths on Wednesday to vote in the first phase of panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The polls are being held for the first time in more than a decade in the state.

Maulana Showkat Ahmed Shah, a prominent Kashmiri cleric and a familiar face in the temperate ca-mp of the separatists, was killed, and three persons, including two women, wou-nded by a bomb detonated

Security across Jammu and Kashmir has been beefed up further ahead of the India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final match at Mohali. Yet the authorities are keeping their fingers crossed as the passion run high with the population’s devotion being at variance rather diametrically opposed.

The US ambassador to India Timothy J.

Twenty two residential houses were gutted and more than five hundred livestock perished in a devastating fire incident in village Baraub, close to LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore district and about 150-km north of here overnight, the police here said on Wednesday.

The Kashmir Valley witnessed a tense Republic Day on Wednesday as the authorities enforced a tight security clampdown to foil attempts by BJP activists and Muslim separatists to pour into Srinagar’s Lal Chowk.