Clashes broke out Thursday evening between locals and security forces at Baltal base camp of Amarnath Yatra in north Kashmir after CRPF men reportedly beat up a taxi driver, police said. Twelve people were reportedly injured.


Locals, security men clash at Amarnath Yatra's Baltal camp


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The union cabinet Wednesday gave a special sanction of Rs.710 crore to build roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in the border state of Jammu and Kashmir, a statement said.


Jammu and Kashmir to get Rs.710 crore for rural roads


A Jammu and Kashmir Police constable and three separatist guerrillas were killed in a day-long gunfight between security forces and the militants in Pulwama district Monday, a defence official said.


Three guerrillas, cop killed in Kashmir gunfight


Life across the Kashmir Valley was affected Monday by a separatist shutdown called to protest the alleged killing of two people by security forces in north Kashmir's Bandipora a day ago.


Separatist shutdown over killings affects life in Valley


Two people were killed in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday allegedly in firing by security forces.


Two killed in Kashmir firing


Few ever believed there could be an all-weather surface link  between the Kashmir Valley and the rest of the country. Even fewer believed there would  be one in their lifetime.


PM, Sonia's historic J&K visit delivered subtle message (News Analysis)


Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian posts in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday. The "unprovoked" firing lasted for 30 minutes. Indian soldiers fired in retaliation. No casualities were reported, official sources said.


Pakistani troops fire on Indian posts across LoC


A 11-km railway tunnel across the Pir Panjal mountain range, inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday, is not only the longest such in India but an engineering marvel and a "dream come true" for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.


Kashmir rail tunnel: A marvel of human endeavour and engineering


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday opened India's longest rail tunnel in Kashmir to provide a key link between the Kashmir Valley and Jammu region, even as UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi said that Kashmiris were fed up with violence.


PM opens rail link, Sonia says Kashmiris want peace (Roundup)


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced Rs.710-crore financial aid to Jammu and Kashmir to help it acquire land for the rural roads scheme, making it the first state in the country to get such assistance.


Jammu and Kashmir gets aid to acquire land for road scheme


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday that the new rail tunnel linking the troubled Kashmir Valley and Jammu region will help develop Jammu and Kashmir.


Rail link to help develop Kashmir: Manmohan Singh (Lead, Changing dateline)


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday that the newly opened rail tunnel linking the Kashmir Valley and Jammu region will better the lives of people in Jammu and Kashmir.


Rail link will help develop Kashmir: Manmohan Singh


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday inaugurated a key rail link in Jammu and Kashmir to connect the troubled Kashmir Valley with the Jammu region.


PM inaugurates vital Kashmir rail link


Prime  Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday hailed Kashmiriyat and the soldiers killed in a terror attack as he visited Jammu and Kashmir with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for the first time after Afzal Guru's controversial hanging over four months ago.


PM, Sonia visit tense Srinagar, hail Kashmiriyat (Intro Roundup)


A soldier from Andhra Pradesh was among the eight men of the Indian Army killed in Monday's terror attack in Srinagar.


Andhra soldier killed in Srinagar


Lauding Kashmiri poet Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said the revolutionary poet should have been honoured many years ago while Congress chief Sonia Gandhi stressed how he had delivered his message of brotherhood in the common's man language.


PM, Sonia extol Kashmiri poet Mahjoor's contribution


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi Tuesday flew into a tense Srinagar on a two-day trip to Jammu and Kashmir, a day after terrorists shot dead eight soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks in the state on the Indian Army.


PM, Sonia in tense Srinagar, salute soldiers (Evening Lead)


Cancer of the oesophagus  - or what is commonly called food pipe - has been detected as the third most common cancer in India, with people from the northeast and Jammu and Kashmir found to be the highest affected by the disease, said experts Tuesday.


Kashmir, northeast worst affected by food pipe cancer


Indirectly blaming the centre for lapses in internal security, former defence minister Jaswant Singh Tuesday said security problems would continue to remain till deficiencies in the government were sorted out.


Clear clogs to combat separatists, says Jaswant Singh


A civil rights group has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to restart criminal investigations into the 1991 Kunan-Poshpora mass rape case in Jammu and Kashmir and pacify the victims.

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