“Harud” (autumn in Kashmiri), a literature festival which the organisers claim will be the Valley’s first-ever such event, will be held in summer capital Srinagar in September this year.

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.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday removed Sopore superintendent of police Altaf Khan “in order to ensure fair and impartial investigation” into the custodial killing of a local youth, Nazim Rashid Shalla, alias Anjum. The 26-year-old trader was detained by the local police’s counter-insurgency special operations

Three Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MLAs and their supporting activists were on Tuesday attacked by angry mobs in the north-western Kashmiri town of Sopore where they had gone to visit the family of a local youth killed in custody of the Jammu and Kashmir police’s counter-insurgency special operations group

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General V.K. Singh, who is on a two-day visit, discussed the prevailing security situation of Jammu and Kashmir with the state chief minister Omar Abdullah.

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

Three Army jawans were killed and two others injured in a fierce gunbattle with infiltrating militants near the Line of Control in Kupwara district last night, official sources said.

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A youth, suspected to be involved in killing of a businessman, died in police custody in north Kashmir prompting the state government to suspend three policemen following the incident, which was terme

At least 10 people were killed and 42 others injured when a bus fell into a stream in south Kashmir's Anantnag district today.

The bus, en route to a tourist resort in Pahalgam from Bijbehara, sk