After days of relative calm, three persons were killed and two others wounded when the police opened fire into groups of slogan-chanting protesters and rock-throwing youth at Palhalan, outside the north-western Kashmir town of Pattan, on Monday. The condition of one of the injured civilians is stated to be critical. A report said he too had succumbed at a Srinagar hospital.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday assured Shiromani Akali Dal president and Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal that his state government would take all requisite

Barring Anantnag town in south Kashmir, curfew was on Wednesday lifted from the entire Kashmir Valley with people flocking markets to buy essentials.

Parts of Kashmir Valley continued to simmer with irate crowds clashing with security forces at a number of places in and outside Srinagar on Tuesday, leaving scores injured on Tuesday.

Hard-line Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who is in the lead of political unrest which has claimed 65 lives, mainly in police firings, in the Valley since June 11 2010 has set five c

An 11-year-old boy was killed and nearly two dozen people wounded in fresh clashes across Kashmir Valley on Monday, breaking a comparative four-day lull in violence.

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday hinted at a political solution of the Kashmir problem by the Centre in the coming days. “The Union government is actively working for a political solution,” he said, expressing the hope that an “amicable and peaceful” settlement would not be too far off.

Sayeda Aasiya Andrabi, the leader of the radical all-women Kashmiri group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Faith), was on Saturday arrested by the police in a raid on a house at Habbak here.

Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet, which met here on Thursday, ordered a major reshuffle in both police and administration, shifting about 30 senior officials from their present responsibilities.

Jammu and Kashmir Roads and Buildings and Mechanical Engineering minister Gulam Muhammad Saroori was on Thursday dismissed by the state governor following recommendation of the chief minister.