Two separatist guerrillas were killed and a civilian was injured in a gunfight between the security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Sunday, police said.


Two guerrillas killed in Kashmir gunfight


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A guerrilla hideout was busted on Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district and a quantity of arms and ammunition seized, an army officer said.


Guerrilla hideout busted in Kashmir


Five people were killed and seven others injured in an accident  on Saturday on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district, police said.


Five killed, seven injured in J&K accident


Arrest

He was arrested for raising anti-India slogans at an event organised by students to commemorate the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru

JNU student union's head arrested for sedition

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, announcing stringent action against students who raised anti-India slogans on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus, said on Friday they will not be spared.


Will not spare who raise anti-India slogans, says Rajnath


Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley on Tuesday described how he was assigned to gather military intelligence in India and recruit spies from the Indian Army.


Headley was tasked with recruiting spies from Indian Army


A special police officer (SPO) on Saturday decamped with the service rifle of a constable from a police station here.


Cop decamps with rifle in Srinagar


The army on Friday released the names of its 10 soldiers who were buried in an avalanche on Siachen Glacier of Jammu and Kashmir's Ladakh region on Wednesday.


Siachen avalanche tragedy: Names of deceased soldiers released


Clashes erupted in old city areas here after Friday prayers as groups of youth pelted stones at security personnel and displayed Islamic State and Pakistani flags, police said.


Clashes in Srinagar's old city after Friday prayers


Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said Pakistan wants peace in the region and does not want confrontation with India, and reiterated that the Kashmir issue "be resolved" through dialogue.


Kashmir issue test for India, Pakistan leadership, says Sharif


Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif here on Friday said that the solution of all issues, including that of "disputed Kashmir", lies in a bilateral dialogue.


Solution to Kashmir issue lies in dialogue, says Sharif


Three minor sisters were electrocuted and their parents seriously injured in an accident in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Tuesday, police said.


Three minor sisters electrocuted in Rajouri


A Pakistani minister has said that Islamabad had always kept the Kashmir dispute on the top of the agenda in its talks with India, but terrorists seem to be toppling it, media reported on Monday.


Terrorists damaging Kashmir cause, says Pakistan minister


Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra on Saturday reviewed budget preparations for the new fiscal beginning April 2016, an official statement said.


Kashmir governor reviews budget preparations


A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander hailing from Pakistan was among three guerrillas killed in a gun battle with security forces on Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said.


LeT commander among three killed in Kashmir gunfight


The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the raising of 17 India Reserve Battalions (IR Bns) by Jammu and Kashmir and Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected states.


J&K, extremism-affected states to raise 17 India Reserve Battalions


Pakistan has expressed confidence that the UN Security Council will deliver on its pledge to hold a plebiscite in Kashmir.


Pakistan urges UNSC to implement its resolutions on Kashmir


Even as the authorities cried at the top of their voices that no child had died anywhere after being administered polio drops during Sunday's anti-polio campaign in the Valley, hundreds of weeping and wailing parents stormed hospitals because the rumour mill said dozens had died after being "administered expired polio drops in south Kashmir".


Assisted by modern technology, Kashmir grapevine becomes more deadly (News Analysis)


The police in Jammu and Kashmir has issued an alert after one of its constables in Anantnag district disappeared along with four service rifles.


Cop decamps with four service rifles in Kashmir


Imagine a carpet with a colour palette of 173 colours and 1 kg of gold! Priced at a whopping $2.2 million, this marvel from Iran is a key attraction at an ongoing Carpet and Art Oasis here as part of the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) 2016, where carpets from Kashmir and Agra have caught the eye of visitors.


In Dubai, carpet worth $2.2 million, Kashmiri craft steal limelight


Separatist groups and two Jammu and Kashmir legislators have been invited to a conference on Kashmir set to be held in Islamabad, and at least one legislator on Friday said he will attend.

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