Police on Wednesday gunned down two militants, one of whom was the longest surviving militant in Kashmir valley.
Two 'foreign' militants were killed in a daylong encounter in Chattergul village of north Kashmir's Ganderbal district on Sunday.
Clarifying her stand on alleged custodial death of a ruling National Conference activist, opposition Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that her party was not demanding the dismissal of the state government on the issue, but only stepping down of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his junior home minister Nasir Aslam Wani to enable a fair investigation.
The Jammu and Kashmir government has rubbished allegations by the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party about the death of a worker of the ruling National Conference allegedly in police custody. PDP has demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Minister of State for Home Nasir Aslam Wani so that the "judicial probe can proceed impartially'.
An army officer, a trooper, two cops and five militants were among nine persons killed in the four-day-long fierce encounter in the northern forests of Kupwara district.
A resolution seeking clemency for Afzal Guru, a death row convict in Parliament attack case, was stalled in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Wednesday after pandemonium broke out leading to adjournment of the House without any business being transacted.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
A joint commission can be the biggest Jammu and Kashmir centric confidence building measure by the two countries for the people of the state, says J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Mukhtar Ahmad reports.
Three cops of the Jammu and Kashmir police and three terrorists were killed in an ongoing north Kashmir gunfight on Tuesday.
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party has decided to vote in favour of the resolution seeking clemency for Afzal Guru to be tabled in the state assembly during its forthcoming short session beginning in Srinagar on Monday.
The interlocutors appointed by the Centre to look into a resolution of the Kashmir issue on Wednesday said that "prevailing peace in Kashmir is fragile and would continue to be so unless a political solution is arrived at". Ending their 11-month long tenure as central interlocutors on Kashmir, Dileep Padgaonkar, M M Ansari and Professor Radha Kumar held a joint press conference in Srinagar.
Former prime minister of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and senior Pakistan Peoples Party leader Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhary met Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and senior separatist leaders in Srinagar during his visit to the Valley. Chaudhary, the first senior politician from PoK to visit Kashmir since 1947, is on a four-day visit to the Valley to attend the marriage ceremony of a prominent businessman and his friend.
The controversial resolution for clemency to the Parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru, shall come up for discussion in the state assembly on September 29.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has expressed dismay and anguish over speculation in the media about his private life and the status of his marriage. In a message on social networking site Twitter, Abdullah said, "Have seen with dismay and anguish the growing tide of speculation in the media about my private life and the status of my marriage. While it's true that my wife and I have separated, speculation about the motives and my future actions are unfounded"
At least 22 passengers were killed and 10 others wounded when a minibus met with a tragic accident on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway this afternoon.
There has been no breakthrough yet in the investigations of seven persons detained by Jammu and Kashmir police in Kishtwar town of Jammu region in connection with the Delhi high court blast.
A top militant commander of the Laskar-e-Tayiba was killed in a fierce encounter in North Kashmir's Sopore on Tuesday afternoon.
Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma on Monday visited the Tangdhar sector of the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
An independent member of legislative assembly in the 87-member Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly has submitted a resolution to the speaker seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday reiterated his idea of setting up of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to probe all the killings in Jammu and Kashmir in the past 21-years.
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