The death toll in Thursday's gunfight on Jammu and Kashmir's border has risen to six, and Indian troops are searching the area for more bodies, an official said on Saturday.

The incident took place a

In a rare case, a woman in Kashmir on Thursday gave birth to quintuplets - three boys and two girls - at a government hospital here, officials said.

Afroza, a resident of Larkipora village of central

The internal strife in the so-called moderate faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference alliance, headed by Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, is getting murkier by the day.

Security forces shot dead two guerrillas of the Hizbul Mujaheedin in Jammu and Kashmir early on Saturday, police said.

Men from 29 Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group (SOG) surrounded Nilla

Prominent separatist leader Syed Shabir Ahmed Shah on Thursday cautioned India and Pakistan against seeking to freeze the Kashmir issue or put it on the backburner in order to improve their trade and cultural relations saying the people of the state will not be a party to any such arrangement. “Kashmir is the core issue between the two countries and other troubles be it Siachen, Sir Creek or trade and cultural gaps are only offshoots of Kashmir problem,” he asserted.

Kashmir’s Grand Mufti on Wednesday stirred up a real hornet’s nest by asking for declaring Ahmadis or Ahmadiyyas as non-Muslims through a legislation in the state Assembly.

The cleric, Mufti Muhammad

“Catch them young” seems to be Kashmiri leader Sajjad Gani Lone’s new mantra to make his People’s Conference (PC) a popular voice of the present and future. After successfully bringing in some hopeful young faces of the Valley, he has made an attempt to reach out to the students of the region’s main university and other higher educational institutions.

Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric and chairman of one of the two factions of separatist Hurriyat Conference alliance Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has blamed the government for the sectarian divide among the local

The Justice H.S. Bedi Commission, probing ruling National Conference (NC) worker Haji Yusuf's death, on Friday disallowed a plea to summon Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for cross-examination.

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An exercise book prescribed for Class 3 by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) represents Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir as “Azad Kashmir”, the name given to the held territory by Islamabad.