Muhammad Yasin Malik, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was held here on Thursday after protests following the arrest of a local.

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale struck Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning. The epicentre of the quake was located in Pakistan, the local disaster management authority said.

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An unexpected meeting between the Centre’s interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir and prominent separatist leader and Shia cleric Maulvi Abbas Ansari here on Wednesday has set off fresh crisis in the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference.

Inspite of the killing of a woman candidate by unidentified gunmen ahead of the polling, the second phase of Jammu and Kashmir panchayat elections witnessed a brisk 82 per cent voter turnout on Sunday

The Kashmir police on Saturday said it had arrested three persons involved in the murder of the prominent cleric and moderate separatist leader, Maulana Showkat Ahmed Shah, whereas the man who, along with a former militant commander, plotted the killing is currently in detention at Central Jail, Srinagar.

Railway officials in Jammu and Kashmir were caught napping as a train from Qazigund in the Kashmir Valley plied for over 20 kilometres without a driver, leading to an inquiry for action against offici

The election authorities in south Kashmir's Anatnag district have suspended 22 government employees for allegedly remaining absent from election duty during the ongoing Panchayat polls in the state.

Militants have shot dead a woman candidate of panchayat elections in Chrar-e-Sharief area of Budgam district in central Kashmir, officials said here on Saturday.

Hasina Begum (40) was shot dead by th

The BJP on Wednesday said its government in Gujarat will bring in the Lokpal Bill in the state Assembly, provided the Opposition Congress puts its weight behind the move.

Disregarding hard-line separatist leader Syed Ali Shah’s boycott call, Kashmiris, including women in large numbers, turned up at the polling booths on Wednesday to vote in the first phase of panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The polls are being held for the first time in more than a decade in the state.