Kashmir

Gul — a dental surgeon turned real estates entrepreneur — has taken a shop on rent in the same [Altaf’s] complex where the alleged gunfight took place.

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the Hyderpora killings.

Jammu and Kashmir Police have detained family members of Altaf Ahmad Bhat and Mudasir Gul who were killed by Indian armed forces. The family members were on a sit-in protest demanding the return of the dead bodies of their kin at Press Colony in Srinagar.

“My father was innocent. He was not a militant. He was a civilian...He was afraid of security forces. Wherever there used to be any untoward incident outside, he would stay indoors and ask chachu [uncle] to check what is happening outside,” daughter of Altaf, who is in her 8th grades at IMI, said in a murmuring voice.

Jameela Bhat has recorded her statements hundreds of times before police officers in the valley in the last 25 years - repeating the same story again and again - in a case of her husband’s custodial killing. "Even when I talk about it now, I can see the same visuals of that day," she said. "I have been telling the same story all these years."

The Peoples Democratic Party alleged that its supremo and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti was on put under house arrest to prevent her from visiting Anantnag to meet the family of a youth who was killed in cross-firing between security forces and militants last week.

Three Kashmiri students of Raja Balwant Singh Engineering Technical campus, in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly celebrating Pakistan’s win over India in the opening T20...

A photojournalist from Kashmir valley, Manan Gulzar Dar, was one of eight persons arrested under draconian UAPA by the National Investigation Agency in a militant conspiracy case.

"We lost our son, we are devasted," lamented Aijaz Ahmad Rather, Shahid's father. "Following my illness, I had pinned my hopes with Shahid to feed the family."

The Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered two separate cases under draconian UAPA against students and non-teaching staffs of two medical colleges who celebrated Pakistan cricket team’s victory over India in the T20 World Cup match.

On Thursday, Indian forces killed two Kashmiri men in Dragad, Shopian. Authorities claimed the slain men were "militants" killed in an "encounter". But the family of one of the...

On Thursday, Sepoy Deeraj Kumar of the Engineering Unit posted at Kralpora pointed the barrel of his service rifle towards him and died by suicide by fired himself with...