Observing that the Question Hour has a special significance in the proceedings of the House, Speaker Meira Kumar on Sunday said some key decisions aimed at increasing its efficacy will be operative fr

The latest killings in CRPF actions here have angered chief minister Omar Abdullah who summoned top security officials to his official residence here on Sunday and pulled them up for disregarding his

Another Srinagar youth was killed and four others wounded when CRPF personnel opened fire to quell a mob which allegedly attacked one of its pillboxes at Noorbagh in central Srinagar on Sunday.

Thousands of Kashmiri Pandit expatriates and other devotees turned up at the annual Kheer Bhawani mela at Tulla Mulla, 27-km north of here, on Saturday.
Kheer Bhawani is the most revered place of worship for Kashmiri brahmins and the fair marks the annual pilgrimage to the sacred spring to seek the blessings of G

Dozens of pro-independence Jammu Kashmiri Liberation Front (JKLF) activists, led by its chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik, on Friday courted arrest to protest against what it alleged are increasing human rights violations by Indian security forces.

The Srinagar police on Thursday arrested Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric and leader of his faction of Hurriyat Conference alliance Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, along with dozens of supporters and senior colleagues on way to the office of United Nations Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) here.

Kashmir Valley was shut on Monday to mourn and protest the June 11 killing of a Srinagar student in police action against a group of stone-pelting anti-India protesters which he reportedly was not a part of. During the strike called by separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, irate mobs clashed with police and CRPF at more than a dozen places in summer capital Srinagar and in the towns of Sopore and Anantnag leaving scores injured.

Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar continues to simmer in the aftermath of the killing of an 18-year-old student in police action here on Friday.
For the second day running on Sunday, irate crowds clashed with police and CRPF at about a dozen places across the city even as the undeclared curfew continued to be in force in vast downtown Srinagar areas falling under five police stations, leaving dozens injured.

Security agencies are trying to ascertain the purpose of the visit of diplomat Madhuri Gupta, arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan, to Rajouri district, amid mounting suspicion that she was there to receive documents from a “source” but could not do so after her movements were detected by the Jammu and Kashmir police. Contrary

A radical Islamic women’s group in Jammu and Kashmir has called for social boycott of local policemen accusing them of working as a tool in effecting “genocide” of the state’s Muslim youth.