A pilgrim from Haryana collapsed and died on Saturday at the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, police said.


Haryana pilgrim dies at Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine


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Plains in Kashmir Valley received season's first snowfall on Friday, with the ski resort of Gulmarg recording 22 inches of fresh snowfall.


Snowfall in Kashmir


Two separatist guerrillas were killed in a shootout with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Tuesday, police said.


Two militants shot dead in Kashmir


External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to Pakistan for a regional security conference on Tuesday and also meet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif there.


Sushma Swaraj to visit Pakistan, meet Sharif (Roundup)


The alleged handler of "ISI moles" in Indian security agencies, arrested recently, was to be introduced to senior Pakistan High Commission officials and get directions on recruiting new spies in the Indian Army and Border Security Force (BSF) from among disaffected youth, high-level official sources revealed on Friday.


Arrested 'ISI handler' was to be introduced to Pakistan mission


An army captain was killed and three other soldiers injured on Friday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, police said.


Army officer killed in Kashmir road accident


The Indian Army on Thursday foiled an infiltration bid in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, and killed three heavily-armed guerrillas in a gun battle, the army said.


Army foils infiltration in Kashmir, three guerrillas killed


An Indian soldier, deployed on the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, on Sunday slipped and fell to his death into a gorge, a defence official said.


Soldier slips to death on LoC


Jammu and Kashmir legislator Engineer Rashid, who was assaulted by BJP legislators in the assembly after hosting a beef party, sustained minor injuries on Wednesday after being attacked by unidentified assailants in the state's Kishtwar district, police said.


Kashmir lawmaker Engineer Rashid attacked again


The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday recommended compulsory retirement of an examiner on the charge of casual evaluation of a physics paper of a student, after which the latter committed suicide.


J&K government recommends examiner's retirement after student's suicide


The Indian Army on Tuesday paid tributes to a soldier killed while foiling an infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.


Army pays tribute to soldier killed in Kashmir


Three separatist guerrillas were killed on Monday in a brief gunfight with security forces in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, an official said.


Three guerrillas killed in south Kashmir gunfight: Official


Security forces on Sunday busted a guerrilla hideout in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.


Guerrilla hideout busted in J&K's Poonch


A senior officer of the Indian Army was on Sunday seriously injured in a gunfight with separatist guerrillas in a forest area in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said.


Army officer injured in Kashmir forest gunfight


Electric power woes in winter have become endemic in Jammu and Kashmir and, for the moment, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. People of the state have become cynical enough to say that the problem would be solved only after India and Pakistan resolve the Kashmir issue.


Heart of Darkness: Why Kashmiris link power woes to India-Pakistan dispute (Special Focus)


Amid reports that Pakistani Army chief Raheel Sharif had raised the Kashmir issue with Secretary of State John Kerry, the US said it was for India and Pakistan to work out issues between them.


It is for India, Pakistan to talk Kashmir: US


The union cabinet on Wednesday cleared a proposal to provide state government jobs and transit accommodation in the Kashmir Valley for thousands of Kashmiri migrants forced to flee their homes in early 1990s.


Kashmiri migrants to get government jobs, transit accommodation


An Indian Army colonel was injured on Tuesday in a gun battle with separatist guerrillas in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district and died in a hospital, officials said.


Army colonel injured in Kashmir gun battle dies


An army Colonel was injured on Tuesday in a gun-battle with separatist guerrillas in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, the police said.


Army Colonel injured in Kashmir gun-battle


A man who migrated to Pakistan in 1947 came back to India with his wife and daughter, but all three were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, police said on Monday.


Man returns with family to Kashmir after 1947, arrested


Massive protests erupted in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district on Monday after residents alleged that security forces tortured four people during a search operation to nab separatist guerrillas hiding in the area.

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