A cyclonic wind storm has killed at least one person in Kashmir Valley and caused extensive damage to properties and disrupting communications. Entire region has been plunged into darkness as the electricity service lines have been snapped and poles and towers uprooted.

The death toll in an avalanche in north Kashmir has risen to three, an official said on Wednesday.

"Three bodies have been recovered from under the avalanche debris in Badwan village of Gurez tehsil.

Property worth crores of rupees was damaged by powerful overnight storms which hit Kashmir Valley forcing authorities to announce closure of all schools to ensure safety of the students.

As per prel

Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi

After finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday cancelled his participation in the India Today Conclave apparently because of the presence of controversial author Salman Rushdie who, according to the organisers, was the “gala night speaker” at the event’s concluding session. Mr Abdullah’s newly-appointed counterpart in UP Akhilesh Yadav was only to follow suit ostensibly for the same reason.

Yasin Malik, chairman of the Pro-Azadi Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), has sought permission from the Pakistan Supreme Court to appear before the Memogate probe panel.

Prominent local lawy

Curfew has been re-imposed in Rajouri following fresh clashes in the frontier town of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, a day after round-the-clock restrictions had been lifted.

A three-day international conference on the contribution of 14th-century Persian Sufi saint Mir Sayyid Ali bin Shahab-ud-Din Hamadani to “knowledge and learning” beginning here on Tuesday is expected to be attended by Islamic scholars, academicians and intellectuals from different parts of the world, including Iran, Turkey, Tajikistan and other central and south Asian countries.

Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, now in its budget session in winter capital Jammu, on Monday witnessed pandemonium over the alleged embezzlement of funds in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA), closing with a protest walkout of Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Thirty years ago, Avend village in the south Kashmir district of Shopian was also called 'Talaab Gaam' because of dozens of fresh water ponds surrounding it. All but one of these ponds have now disapp