The decision to offer a flat bonus means the state government will not implement the so-called PM-AASHA (Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan), a programme announced by the Centre on September 12 to ensure remunerative prices to farmers.  read more

Mattu, 34, a former financial analyst who returned from the US barely a decade ago to join politics, was the NC’s spokesperson and considered a confidante of former chief minister Omar Abdullah, but left the party in September after it decided not to... read more

Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik said former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf told Kashmiri separatist leaders to get concessions from New Delhi through a dialogue because India was a superpower and he would not be able to break it. read more

The body of sub-inspector Imtiyaz Ahmad Mir, who was posted with the CID in Srinagar’s Sheergadi, was recovered from Chewa Kalan area of Pulwama district, officials said. read more

As India takes steps connected to its legitimate security concerns in the region, it must ensure that it is not perceived as an overbearing presence but one that has the best interests of the Bhutanese people at heart read more

The second phase of urban bodies’ elections in Jammu and Kashmir, being held on Wednesday, covers 384 wards and has 1,094 candidates in the fray. Separatists had called for a shutdown in the areas going to polls. read more

By 1 pm Jammu had recorded 43.4 percent polling, Poonch 63.5 percent and Rajouri 67.7 percent. read more

Political observers do not read much into the BJP’s ‘victory’ and feel that these elections were ‘meaningless’ after the state’s major political parties -- National Conference and PDP -- decided to boycott the elections. read more

Adil Bashir was deployed at a PDP lawmaker’s residence in Srinagar when he allegedly abandoned his duties. read more

Four parties — National Conference (NC), People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Bahujan Samaj Party — have announced that they will be boycotting the polls. read more

Officials said the SPO was posted with legislator Aijaz Ahmad Mir representing Wachi constituency of Shopian district. The SPO, who also hails from Shopian, had fled off with seven rifles from Mir’s official residence at Jawhar Nagar, a senior police... read more

Omar Abdullah says Narendra Modi has done pretty much nothing on Kashmir in four-and-a-half years. read more

Jammu and Kashmir’s two main political parties, National Conference and People’s Democratic Party, are boycotting the elections to protest against the Centre’s ‘unclear’ stand over Article 35A. read more

In an exclusive interview to HT, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti talks about boycotting local body elections, her party’s stand on Article 35A and the alliance with BJP. read more

Mehbooba Mufti said that the BJP lacked the vision of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was credited for an outreach to Kashmiris in the late ‘90s and the early 2000s. read more