Surging crowds protesting the killing of a local teenage student allegedly in police action defied curfew to join his funeral here on Saturday.

Tens of thousands of nomadic Gujjar children in Jammu and Kashmir are subject to child labour, which is otherwise prohibited under law, says a survey released here on Saturday on the eve of World Day

The three-day Singhey-Khababs Spring Festival of Ladakh, previously known as Sindhu Darshan, began in the land of celebrations on Saturday.

An 18-year-old youth was killed under mysterious circumstances during renewed anti-India protests and clashes between irate mobs and the police here on Friday.
Meanwhile, a policeman, Mushtaq Ahmed Mir, has been admitted to a hospital in a critical condition after he was severely beaten up by a mob which also snatched his s

The much-awaited talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the separatist outfits in Jammu and Kashmir took place on Tuesday. Earlier on Monday, the Prime Minister had pledged his government’s commitment to implement the recommendations of the five working groups he had formed after three round table conferences held in 2006 and 2007.

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s offer of conditional talks has failed to stimulate the Kashmiri separatists as they see in it “old wine in new bottle” and a mere “rhetoric.” “What is new in there?” asked chief Muslim cleric and leader of his faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, regretting the Indian leadership

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Monday that the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir had been “strictly instructed” to respect citizens’ human rights.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday that he would like to say to the neighbours across the Line of Control that they should help in creating an environment in which people from both the sides

Speaking in chaste Urdu, the official language of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh said here on Monday that the Centre had announced a slew of measures for economic development and

Mobile services across Kashmir Valley on Monday were blocked as part of extraordinary security arrangement made for Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s two-day visit.