Director General of Police Kuldeep Khuda today said the year 2011 erased to a great extent the grim memories of the past two decades of militancy as the state witnessed lowest ever militant activities.
A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was today allegedly killed by his colleague after an altercation in south Kashmir’s Awantipora area, fourth death in just a week in similar incident of fratricide in the state.
Heading a police force in Kashmir is walking a tightrope over one of the state's deep gorges. Nevertheless, a year after the summer of protests, the authorities have managed to keep peace in the valley.
The new power cut direction, which includes three nightlong and three daylong cuts, has the state government's Power Development Department (PDD) under severe criticism from civil society and the business community.
Moderate Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is also Kashmir's head priest, on Tuesday accused social activist Anna Hazare of deviating from the principles of Gandhi when it comes to people of Kashmir.
The scenic Kashmir Valley may have been devoid of snowfall this Christmas, but the cold spell continued on Sunday as the minimum temperature fell to the season's lowest in Srinagar at minus 4.8 degrees Celsius.
Three CRPF jawans were killed and another injured in a fratricide incident, the first of this year in the force, at a camp in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said on Sunday.
A safety audit of J&K hospitals has thrown up a startling revelation — total lack of basic fire safety requirements.
At least 100 guerrillas were waiting to infiltrate into the Kashmir Valley from across the Line of Control (LoC), the army on Monday said quoting information gleaned by intelligence agencies.
Over 1,000 youths from Jammu and Kashmir have been recruited in various private firms across the country under a centrally-sponsored programme, which aims at giving training and placement to over one lakh people in the state, officials said in Srinagar today.
Curfew has been imposed in parts of Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district following violent protests by villagers over a video containing "objectionable" content, officials said in Srinagar today.
An indicator that militancy might be down but not out, the police on Thursday claimed to have busted indigenous Hizbul Mujahideen and the Lashkar-e-Taiba modules in south Kashmir by arresting eight militants. In north Kashmir, one Hizb militant was arrested in a separate operation.
Sub-zero temperature during nights engulf Kashmir valley as the meteorological department forecast chilly nights ahead. The chill has people of the valley braving odds to go on with their routine life.
The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons(APDP), whose relatives disappeared during the violent years of the valley, today filed 132 cases of involuntary disappearances suspected to be enforced by security forces and militants of Hizbul Mujahideen in north Kashmir's Banihal area before the State Human Rights Commission on the International Day of Human Rights in Srinagar.
Suspected militants made an attempt on the life of Jammu and Kashmir minister Ali Muhammad Sagar when he was at a party in the old city of Srinagar.. HT reports.