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).

Thirty years ago, Avend village in the south Kashmir district of Shopian was also called 'Talaab Gaam' because of dozens of fresh water ponds surrounding it. All but one of these ponds have now disapp

An earthquake, measuring 5.6 on Richter scale struck North Western Kashmir this morning. No casualties or damage to property have been reported yet.

The epicentre of the quake is said to be Gilgit, a

An irate mob on Saturday torched an Army vehicle after a cyclist Yasir Ahmed Wani was crushed to death by it in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern town of Anantnag. The incident has sparked off widespread protests in the area and police and CRPF reinforcements have been rushed in to control the situation.

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.

Changing its strategy, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrilla outfit has been trying to engage local boys, holding passports, after its foreign cadres started coming under pressure from the security forc

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.