US ambassador Timothy J. Roemer on Friday declined to comment on the WikiLeaks report on the purported purchase of opposition MPs ahead of the confidence vote in 2008.

Twenty two residential houses were gutted and more than five hundred livestock perished in a devastating fire incident in village Baraub, close to LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore district and about 150-km north of here overnight, the police here said on Wednesday.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday announced the removal of 12 more bunkers from the city as part of an exercise launched last year to reduce the footprints of the security forces in the Valley.

Two siblings were killed and three other members of their family injured when a shell, left over during a fierce gunbattle with militants in Malroo area of the Srinagar city in October 2010, exploded

Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday asked the Centre as well the state government to try to learn lessons from the collapse of the Hosni Mubarak government in Egypt under the weight of people’s power in Egypt and help the people of Jammu and Kashmir in finding their destiny.

The killing of a civilian by troops set off widespread protests by residents in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier district of Kupwara on Saturday.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday created history of sorts when he soon after hearing about the killing of an innocent youth by Army troops in frontier Kupwara district drove

A civilian was shot dead in an army ambush, in the first such killing in Jammu and Kashmir in 2011. The Police swiftly registered a murder case against the soldiers on Saturday and a magisterial enquiry was ordered into the incident.

Condemning the killing of a youth in an Army operation in Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said the incident could have been avoided if a "suggestion" made by him at a meeting of the unified headquarters had been implemented.

The Kashmir Valley witnessed a tense Republic Day on Wednesday as the authorities enforced a tight security clampdown to foil attempts by BJP activists and Muslim separatists to pour into Srinagar’s Lal Chowk.