In a first train mishap in Kashmir Valley, at least 20 passengers were injured when a Qazigund to Srinagar train derailed at Sadhora village in south Kashmir's Anantnag district on Wednesday afternoon.
Ruling National Conference on Friday welcomed the army's decision to try five officers, accused in the Pathribal fake encounter case, in a general court martial for the killing of five innocent men in Anantnag district in March 2000.
Five personnel of the Border Roads Organisation, including a lieutenant colonel and an engineer, were gunned down by militants at Symbham top, the highest point on the Srinagar-Kishtwar Highway, in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday evening.
Leh in Ladakh region recorded the lowest temperature this winter as mercury plummeted to minus 17.1 degree Celsius on Tuesday night, a meteorological department official said.
Eleven people were killed and 48 injured when a bus in which they were travelling plunged into a stream in south Kashmir's Anantnag district on Saturday.
The pilgrimage to the 3,880 metre high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas was suspended from Pahalgam route on Thursday afternoon following inclement weather.
An encounter with militants was continuing in Baramulla.
Militants abducted two persons Abdul Majid Khan and Shabir Ahmad Reshi alias Tober from their houses at Lamad-Bernai in Qazigund area of Anantnag district Monday night.
A top Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant, active in the area for the last 20 years was on Saturday arrested in Patnazi area of Bonjwa belt of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Lone and two others were identified by police as the masterminds behind the grenade attack.
The bill seeks to reserve one-third of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies.
In all, over a dozen people were injured in the explosion in the main market in Bejibehara town located on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.
At least eight persons were injured, two of them critically, in a powerful hand grenade explosion in south Kashmir's Bejibehara town late on Sunday afternoon.A senior police officer said militants hurled a grenade in the main market in the highway town of Bejibehara in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, 54 kms from Srinagar late on Sunday afternoon. The grenade exploded under a passing car, injuring all the four occupants and four bystanders.
Two youth were critically injured on Sunday as mobs defied curfew and attacked the home of the state education minister in south Kashmir Anantnag district. Meanwhile 34-year old Mohammad Ashraf Mir who was critically wounded in police firing in Palhallan town on the Srinagar Muzaffarabad road on September 6 succumbed to injuries in the Soura medical institute this afternoon.
The toll in the fire and blasts at Field Ordnance Depot at Khundroo in the south Kashmir district has now risen to four with two killed and over 40 injured on Saturday.
The report published in the gazettes of India appeared in local newspapers on Monday and showed that Habba Kadal seat in Kashmir division and Suchetgarh seat in Jammu province had been restored.
Nineteen candidates saw an extremely close contest in the maiden District Development Council (DDC) polls in Jammu and Kashmir where the margin of victory was less than 100.
The martyred policemen were identified as Constable Ishfaq Ahmad Mir, Constable Javaid Ahmad Bhat, Constable Mohammad Iqbal Mir and SPO Adil Manzoor Bhat.
The death of their colleague due to illness had angered the jawans.
Curfew was re-imposed on Sunday in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir Valley, where the death toll in the ongoing unrest has risen to 102 with three more persons, including a youth leader of opposition PDP, succumbing to injuries.
Earlier in 2010, the highest number of 156 terrorists were killed between January and July that year.
The Jammu and Kashmir government wants the army's sophisticated ammunition depots in the valley relocated to safer, uninhabited areas
The encounter took place in Lacchipora village of Anantnag district.
Three more injured Central Reserve Police Force jawans succumbed to their wounds on Saturday, taking the death toll in Friday's Improvised Explosive Device blast in Anantnag district to five.
Heavy snowfall and avalanches have so far claimed over 150 lives in three villages of southern Kashmir.
'It was a helpless situation for me and my family. We were staying on the first floor as the ground floor was filled with flood water,' says Parveez Rasool, the only cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir to have played for India.
J&K Director General of Police A K Suri said the police learnt about the attacks following the arrest of Zia Mustafa, LeT's district commander-cum-finance chief for Anantnag.
The grenade was aimed at a Special Operations Group patrol near the Lal Chowk bus stand, but fell short of the target and exploded on the road.\n\n
Nine migrant Pandit families returned to their south Kashmir native village after 18 long years. Thousands of local Hindus migrated out of the Kashmir valley with the beginning of the ongoing militancy in Kashmir in 1990. The Prime Minister in March announced a relief and rehabilitation package of Rs 7.5 lakhs and a government job for each family returning to the valley.
Besides these teams, two quick response teams have also been constituted, which will be utilised as and when news regarding the presence of any wild animal is received, a police spokesman in Srinagar said.
Militants on Tuesday night gunned down Ghulam Hassan Laway, a Communist Party of India (Marxist) activist, inside his house at Chowalgam in Anantnag district, official sources said.
Major Ketan Sharma, the 29-year-old officer, was killed in an encounter in Achabal area of the south Kashmir district on Monday. A terrorist was also killed in the gun fight which broke out after the security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area.
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