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Security camps in Kashmir raise compound walls, install alarms to repulse terrorists

Major construction work is going on in a majority of security camps and police stations in the Kashmir valley after the Ministry of Home...

Hurriyat will soon take a call on Centre’s offer of talks

The Hurriyat leaders, especially Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, have shown interest in the olive branch being offered by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Mirwaiz Farooq...

Ceasefire will be extended after assessing agencies’ inputs

The security agencies in the Kashmir valley have told Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh that they were in favour of continuing with the current...

‘Violence will not solve Kashmir issue’

Manipuri rights activist Irom Sharmila has advised the Kashmiri youths and also women to take to peaceful demonstration to press for their cause since...

Leh is on the brink of a water crisis

Leh may be on the brink of a drinking water scarcity with the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department curtailing water supply to it and...

Villagers along border return to broken houses

The administration is yet to make any damage assessment or release grants.   Residents of the border villages in Jammu are upset with the indifference shown...

Families living in fear along IB in Jammu

Though there was suspension of border shelling in Jammu, Kathua and Samba sectors on Friday, thousands of families living near the International Border (IB)...

J&K worried as school dropout rate among girls increases

The Jammu and Kashmir Education Department is rattled by the increase in the dropout rate of girl students in the Kashmir valley and is...

Centre explores possibility to extend Ramzan ceasefire

Rajnath Singh is satisfied with the drop in stone-pelting incidents.   The Central government—in particular the Home Ministry and the Defence Ministry—is taking regular feedbacks from...

PMO thought separatists, not Mehbooba, would ask for Ramzan ceasefire

CM Mufti has claimed she had discussed the issue with all political parties of J&K, but the Opposition denies that.   If newspaper reports are to...

Students in South Kashmir eager to resume school

The ceasefire announcement has rekindled hopes among the students in South Kashmir that their schools may be resumed soon. People in general, and students...

Operation All-out may not resume till Amarnath Yatra

There is a belief that the Union government, which has asked the security forces not to launch anti-militancy operations during the month of Ramzan,...

‘Peace will come only through development’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that development, and development alone, was the only solution to all the problems of the people of Jammu and...

Mehbooba Mufti’s proposal for ‘ceasefire’ red flagged by ally BJP

Amid newspaper reports that Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will discuss a possible cease-fire of Operation All Out in Kashmir with Jammu and Kashmir...

J&K reviews security to protect tourists

The Jammu and Kashmir government has reviewed security arrangements of tourists going to different health resorts in North and South Kashmir after a young...

Agencies prepare early to contain summer unrest, infiltration bids in valley

The security apparatus in the Kashmir valley recently held a detailed meeting along with the intelligence agencies to finalise the strategy to contain infiltration...

Militant count surges despite operation all out in valley

Contrary to the Army’s claims that South Kashmir will be soon militant-free, as a consequence of Operation All Out started in the summer of...

South Kashmir simmers after Army lays siege to village in Shopian

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, also the state Home Minister, has reportedly asked the police to probe the recent Turkwangan siege and...

Rebellion brewing in BJP, PDP ranks in J&K

Both the Mehbooba Mufti led People’s Democratic Party and its ally Bharatiya Janata Party are facing rebellion from their ranks in Jammu and Kashmir,...

After Bar Council clean chit, Jammu protests will intensify

The right wing activists in Jammu region have decided to intensify their protests demanding a CBI inquiry in the Kathua rape and murder case,...

Salman ‘secures permission’, Kashyap to face law in Kashmir

Without permission to shoot in the endangered Thajiwas glacier, Salman Khan’s film would have landed in trouble.   Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has...

Minor nomad girl’s tragic end stirs hornets’ nest in Jammu

With former BJP ministers Chowdhary Lal Sinagh and Chander Prakash Ganga, who resigned recently under pressure, out on the streets in Jammu asking for...

Woman cop in Kathua case feels ‘hurt’

DSP Shwetambari Sharma, who was the only woman police officer in the Special Investigation Team (SIT) which was set- up by the state crime...

Tulips, pleasant spring entice Bollywood back to Kashmir

With Asia’s largest tulip garden in Kashmir giving a real push to tourism here, rains and pleasant spring have brought back Bollywood crews to...

Mehbooba govt to make new law for minor’s rape

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who wants a special court and fast track trial for the culprits responsible for the rape and...

‘BJP ministers’ resignations sent to CM’

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary in-charge of Jammu & Kashmir Ram Madhav told the media in Jammu that resignations of two BJP ministers...

Congress’ connections with Hindu Ekta Manch tumble out

Kant Kumar, secretary, Hindu Ekta Manch, is a prominent Congress leader. Romi Sharma of the Youth Congress is a vocal supporter of the Manch.   While...

Do not question our sincerity: J&K police chief

Jammu and Kashmir police chief Shesh Paul Vaid is in the centre of media attention for his recent utterances over the killings of youths...

Disillusioned Mehbooba may take final call on coalition with BJP

She says she cannot preside over civilian killings in the valley and remain silent.   Two Cabinet Ministers of the People’s Democratic Party have confirmed to...

Jammu varsity gets autonomy

Students’ protests in Jammu University and the university authorities’ tough handling of the scholars have eclipsed the institution’s marked achievement which it accrued by...

With eye on tourism, Mehbooba wants halt in military operations

The Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir government have together made determined efforts to revive tourism in Kashmir and make the current spring season...

Kupwara gunfight alerts security grid in Kashmir

The Army, CRPF and the SOG wing of the Jammu and Kashmir police have gathered leads which suggest that highly trained infiltrators have either...

Mehbooba silent over state BJP demands

The BJP’s state unit in Jammu and Kashmir is waiting for a response from the state’s Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on their demand for...

J&K’s Zanskar Muslims seek Dalai Lama’s help

Nobel Laureate and spiritual head Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit the Central University in Jammu on Sunday, 18 March. The Muslims of Zanskar...

Authorities fear ISIS is very active in Kashmir

The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir fear that there are more ISIS terrorists active in the Kashmir valley than is estimated. The government and...

Tulip garden may open this month in anticipation of tourists

With very little tourist footfall in Jammu and Kashmir, the state tourism and floriculture departments are bracing up with events and attractions to attract...

J&K springs into action to save water bodies

In the past few months, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has issued several directions to the state government to save the state’s water...

J&K police rebuffs Army’s theory in Shopian killing

The Jammu and Kashmir police, while investigating the killing of six people including two militants on Sunday evening in Pahnoo village of Shopian in...

CM Mehbooba gives state police free hand in Kathua case

J&K Crime Branch is going to intensify its probe into the alleged rape and murder of a minor girl, after Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti...

100 remote villages in Ladakh electrified

The Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE), along with other people including some wings of the state government, has been able to bring out about 100...

J&K police confirms ISIS presence, centre denies

The Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir Police have issued contradicting statements regarding the presence of ISIS in the valley. Whereas the Union Home...

J&K will shift 40 prisoners to other states

The Jammu and Kashmir prison department has decided to shift all hardened prisoners out of the Kashmir valley after a directive to this direction...

CM Mehbooba presses for talks with Pak

According to PDP insiders, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make some movement on the “agenda of...

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