A woman is trapped inside a house with militants in Lolab area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district, officials said here today.

Security forces launched a search-cum-cordon operation in Maidanpor

Curfew in parts of summer capital Srinagar, a shutdown elsewhere in the Valley and placing key separatist leaders under house arrest or taking them in preventive custody marked the Kashmir “martyrs’ day” on Wednesday.
However, chief minister Omar Abdullah, some of his Cabinet colleagues and leaders of various mainstream

Devotees going to Amarnath in the last days of the yatra, ending August 13, coinciding with Shravana Poornima and Raksha Bandhan, might be disappointed as the Shivling, the most interesting phenomenon of the annual pilgrimage, is melting fast and might even disappear soon.

A few years ago when the ice-lingam did not form because the glacial cover atop Amarnath had depleted and the snow cover around too had vanished thus no melt water dropping into the cave was possible, the custodians of the cave shrine secretly allowed creation of an artificial Shivling. This with a view that thousands of devotees who

A new political party was launched in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, which apart from working towards “peaceful, amicable, permanent and everlasting” settlement of the Kashmir dispute will encourage people of the state to exploit sagaciously the locally available resources to achieve self-reliance and also promote educational network.

Kashmir’s police on Friday arrested three junior doctors of Srinagar’s Government Medical College (GMC) for allegedly circulating pamphlets which ask the participants to stay away from a musical conce

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday reiterated that Kashmir “is not the issue of money or gun but a political one.” He added that its genesis was linked with New Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan.
While addressing a public rally at Sumbal near here, the chief minister said, “The resolution of political issues of

The Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet on Thursday approved a new hydroelectric policy under which no IPP will be awarded to more than three projects or projects aggregating over 200 MWs, whichever is higher.

At least six policemen were injured today when militants triggered an IED explosion near a police station in Sopore in Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

Militants fired a

The Amarnath pilgrimage has been suspended again in view of hostile weather conditions prevailing along both shorter but steep Baltal and traditional Pahalgam routes and elsewhere in the hilly region,