National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla constituency, party chief Farooq Abdullah announced on Friday.
In December 2019, months after Kashmir had been stripped of its special status under the Constitution and statehood, Lucknow-based infrastructure firm Apco Infratech Private Limited secured a contract in the Kashmir Valley to build a tunnel, and less than four weeks after receiving the go-ahead for the project, the firm donated 10 crores to the BJP through electoral bonds.
Yasraj Sharma, the interim editor of ”The Kashmir Walla” has been summoned by the Jammu and Kashmir Police counter-intelligence wing for questioning him about an article published in the online magazine in 2011.
A bank manager from Rajasthan was shot dead on Thursday by suspected militants in Kashmir’s Kulgam, days after a woman teacher was killed outside a school.
The militants fired at...
Soon after he saw his daughter lying in a pool of blood, Khazir Bhat fell consciousness. Hours later, his 30-year-old daughter, Amreen Bhat was brought home, dead.
Moments before, Amreen’s...
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The delimitation panel was formed in March 2020, and it was given a two-month extension to finish redrawing Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir last...
Ten persons have been arrested under the draconian Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act on Thursday after they staged protests against NIA court's sentencing of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik.
In several areas of the Valley including main city Srinagar and Malik's home town Maisuma, shopkeepers downed their shutters before the pronouncement of the sentencing against Malik.
Popular television actor Ambreen Bhat was shot dead and her 10-year-old nephew received bullet injuries after suspected militants fired at them on Wednesday evening in Chadoora town of Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district.
The well-known human rights defender in Kashmir Valley, Khurram Parvez, who has been imprisoned by the authorities under draconian laws, has been named by the Time Magazine in its list of "100 Most Influential People of 2022."
A special National Investigation Agency court in Delhi on Thursday convicted Jammu and Kashmir separatist leader Yasin Malik in connection with a terror funding case after he pleaded guilty last week.
The...