UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has declined comment over an Amnesty International report that blames India of not taking action against troops accused of atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir state.


UN declines comment on Amnesty report over Kashmir


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Justice is being denied in cases of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, Amnesty International India said on Wednesday.


Justice denied over human rights violations in Kashmir: Amnesty


Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived here on Wednesday on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir.


Rajnath Singh in Kashmir on two-day visit


The union home ministry on Wednesday announced it will extend help to Kashmiri student Zaman Ishtiyaq Bhat, from Shaher-e-Khaas city in Jammu and Kashmir, who cracked the IIT entrance examination this year.


Home ministry to help Kashmiri student who cracked IIT entrance


The residents of Kashmir valley on Friday heaved a sigh of relief as the water level in the Jhelum river began receding.


Jhelum water level recedes in Kashmir


Following daylong protests Thursday by Kashmir University students over the arrest of a student by police, varsity authorities have suspended class work till Saturday while asking hostellers to vacate their accommodation.


Protests rock Kashmir University, classes suspended


The looming flood threat in Jammu and Kashmir after incessant rains since Wednesday morning is likely to ease by Thursday evening, the Met office said.


Kashmir flood threat likely to ease


The Indian army on Wednesday handed over to Pakistani authorities a middle-aged woman, who had inadvertently crossed over border along Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, a defence official said.


Pakistani woman who inadvertently crossed LoC sent back


To overcome financial constraints, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed Wednesday suggested dovetailing of central and state plan schemes in the state.


Sayeed advocates combining state, central plan funds


A high level meeting was held here on Wednesday to review security and other related arrangements for the Amarnath Yatra, which is scheduled to commence July 2 simultaneously from both the Baltal and the Chandanwari routes.


High-level security review held for forthcoming Amarnath Yatra


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reviewed progress on the ambitious Jammu-Baramulla rail link, an official said here.


Modi reviews progress on Jammu-Baramulla rail link


Food safety officers in Srinagar on Tuesday seized over 24,000 bottles of a fruit drink being sold in retail despite having been spoilt in the recent floods.


Flood-spoilt fruit drink sold in Srinagar, stock seized


A young man from a militancy-plagued region in Jammu and Kashmir has cracked the AIIMS medical entrance test and is itching to join the country's premier medical institute as a doctor.


Student from troubled Kashmir area cracks AIIMS test


Security forces on Monday shot dead two separatist guerrillas in Jammu and Kashmir in a gunfight that also left a villager dead, police said.


Two militants, villager killed in Kashmir gunfight


Five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured Sunday in a road accident on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.


Five CRPF troopers injured in Kashmir road accident


A person arrested on charges of smuggling in Jammu district was killed as policemen escorting him resorted to firing at him when he reportedly tried to escape, police said.


Smuggling accused shot dead trying to escape


An arrested Pakistani guerrilla and a police constable were killed and five other policemen injured in a mysterious explosion in their vehicle as they were returning here from a court in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town on Saturday, police said.


Militant, policeman killed in Kashmir blast


The Jammu and Kashmir Crime Branch on Friday registered an FIR against a former jail superintendent and other staffers for misappropriating medieval era coins, belonging to period of Muhammad Ghauri, Balban and Allauddin Khilji, found in the jail premises.


Jammu jail staff booked for misappropriating old coins


An agitation demanding an AIIMS in Jammu was suspended after Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Thursday made a "categoric assurance" that the demand would be fulfilled.


Agitation for AIIMS in Jammu suspended after assurance


Two people were killed when their load carrier fell into a 400-feet-deep gorge on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district on Thursday, police said.


Two dead as vehicle falls into Jammu and Kashmir gorge


A total of Rs.1,805.87 crore claims have  been paid by the general insurance companies in the country towards losses due to floods in Jammu and Kashmir in September 2014, said the union finance ministry.

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