Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah seems to be in a fix again. The State Accountability Commission (SAC) has issued showcause notices to his government after initiating a formal inquisition into a complaint that it has picked up an army of political favourites and some “blue-eyed boys” and appointed them advisers and heads of various government-sponsored bodies, some of them holding the rank and status of Cabinet minister and drawing hefty salaries, besides enjoying other perks at the cost of state exchequer.

Kashmiri youths are increasingly leaning towards non-violence and also moving away from Pakistan. So says a survey by a New Delhi-based research body.

The survey by the Institute for Research on Indi

The recent killing of a sarpanch by unidentified gunmen in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern Kulgam district seems to have panicked those elected with him during the state’s first major urban local body elections held last year after a gap of more than 10 years. These elections had witnessed an enormous interest among the people and in most cases the turnout recorded was between 60 and 80 per cent.

The state government on Saturday decided to seek the army's help to survey and subsequently blast through a Kashmir stream blocked by an avalanche that resulted in a glacial lake, threatening the live

A newly-married woman died in unexplained circumstances during a brawl between her family and a youth, who claimed to be her former lover, in Lolab area in Kashmir's Kupwara district.

The woman, who

The Jammu and Kashmir high court on Wednesday gave four weeks’ time to the defence ministry to respond to a petition filed by a Kashmiri woman alleging that her son was killed in a fake encounter and later branded as a foreign militant involving Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh, the Eastern Army Commander and top contender to the Army chief post, in March 2001.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who is camping in New Delhi for the past many weeks essentially to escape the harsh winter back home — for health reasons as is being claimed — has been lately engaged in such pastime that reflects a major change in his outlook. Many Kashmir watchers have described it as a “from-inflexibility-to-malleability” kind of tale which has, by and large, gone unnoticed in the national media though.

The Congress has reaffirmed that there will be no leadership change in Jammu and Kashmir and that chief minister Omar Abdullah will complete his tenure of six years at the head of the National Conference-Congress coalition government.

Fresh snowfall and slippery road conditions blocked the Srinagar-Jammu highway for the second consecutive day on Tuesday.

Brigadier T.P.S. Rawat, chief engineer of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO)

Rain and snow has been forecast again across the Kashmir Valley Sunday and over the next two days, an official said.

The fresh snow and rain is due to the western disturbance, he said.

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