The Army on Thursday conducted a flag-march in curfew-bound Mendhar, in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier district of Poonch, where angry mobs torched almost all government buildings, offices and vehicles

The deadly outburst over the reported desecration of the holy Quran in the US claimed six more lives in incidents of police firing on protesting crowds in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, raising the toll to 24 since Monday.

At least 14 protesters, including a woman, were killed and scores wounded in incidents of firing by the security forces while a policeman was lynched by an angry crowd as reports about the desecration of a copy of the holy Quran in the United States fuelled mob fury in the Kashmir Valley on Monday.

The Jammu and Kashmir police on Sunday booked Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric and chairman of his faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, on charges of fuelling violence and

A police spokesperson in Srinagar said FIRs have been registered against Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Massarat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yakub Vakil, Nissar Hussein Rather and Mushtaq-ul-Islam for “instigating vio

The Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday signalled its intention to move against YouTube and Facebook for entertaining a three-minute video clip showing a group of three Kashmiri youth being paraded naked by the security forces somewhere near the north-western town of Sopore.

The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday arrested influential hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani from his Srinagar residence saying he posed a serious threat to peace and that his arres

Curfew-defying crowds clashed with the police and the CRPF at several places across the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday. About two dozen persons including some policemen were injured in stone-pelting.

After days of relative calm, three persons were killed and two others wounded when the police opened fire into groups of slogan-chanting protesters and rock-throwing youth at Palhalan, outside the north-western Kashmir town of Pattan, on Monday. The condition of one of the injured civilians is stated to be critical. A report said he too had succumbed at a Srinagar hospital.

Hard-line Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who is in the lead of political unrest which has claimed 65 lives, mainly in police firings, in the Valley since June 11 2010 has set five c