After losing its peak autumn tourist season last year due to unprecedented floods, Kashmir is bedecked with flowers to receive tourists this year. The good news is that tourists are already arriving here in encouraging numbers.


Flower bedecked, Kashmir looks to a tourist boom


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Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Tuesday that the youth killed in Pulwama on Monday had died in exchange of gunfire between guerrillas and security forces in which a hardcore guerrilla had also been killed.


Guerrilla also killed besides youth in Kashmir gunfight: Police


Indian and Chinese army personnel met on the border in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday on the occasion of the north Indian harvest festival of Baisakhi, a defence statement said.


Indian, Chinese army personnel meet on border in Kashmir


Over two dozen people were injured in clashes between security forces and stone-pelting protestors on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.


Two dozen security men, protestors injured in Kashmir


Veteran actor Anupam Kher on Sunday said Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which guarantees special status to Jammu and Kashmir, should be repealed and a Smart City should be built in the Kashmir Valley for the displaced Pandit community.


Repeal Article 370, build Smart City for Pandits: Anupam Kher


Bollywood's romance with Kashmir that began in  the 1960s and blossomed in the 1970s and 1980s, was interrupted for over two decades by violence that plagued the Valley. Bollywood then shifted its outdoor shoots to Europe and America. As violence began waning, Bollywood like a smitten lover, rebounded to its old love.


Bollywood's eternal romance with Kashmir lives on


Union Home Secretary L.C. Goyal on Saturday reviewed the flood relief and rehabilitation measures undertaken by the Jammu and Kashmir government.


Union home secretary reviews flood relief in Kashmir Valley


A major fire on Saturday destroyed what was once the best hotel in this Jammu and Kashmir winter capital.


Fire destroys once best hotel in Jammu


A total of 44 people were killed and 25 injured in the recent landslides and flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government said on Wednesday.


44 dead in Kashmir floods, says minister


Teachers of government schools in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday accused the government of having "no clear policy" to streamline the education system and of adopting a "discriminatory attitude" towards them.


Government teachers in Kashmir decry state apathy


The composite township concept for the return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley, which they had fled following an Islamist militancy that began in the 1990s and which continues to fester, is the latest of many such proposals that have so far failed to woo the frightened community back to the land of its ancestors.


Townships for migrant Pandits: Neither salve nor solution (News Analysis)


One-way traffic was allowed from Srinagar to Jammu on the strategic Srinagar-Jammu National Highway on Wednesday. Earlier,  over 1,000 trucks carrying supplies reached here overnight from Jammu.


Supplies reach Kashmir as Jammu-Srinagar highway opens


The time has not yet come for security forces to move without weapons in Jammu and Kashmir, a top army officer said on Tuesday.


Soldiers can't move without weapons in Kashmir: Top officer


Security forces on Tuesday busted a guerrilla hideout in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition, an official said.


Guerrilla hideout busted in Jammu and Kashmir


Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday asked Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to provide land for composite townships for Kashmiri Pandits in the state, an official release said.


Rajnath Singh asks Sayeed for land for Kashmiri Pandits


One-way traffic will be allowed on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Tuesday, said officials.


Jammu-Srinagar highway opened to one-way traffic


It was a cloudy Tuesday morning with light rain in Srinagar where the minimum temperature settled at 10 degrees Celsius.


More rain likely in Kashmir


Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed was on Monday briefed by the western army commander on the security situation along the international border in Jammu region.


Kashmir CM briefed on border situation


Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on Monday hoped that the Valley would see a record number of tourists this year.


Sayeed hopes more tourists visit Kashmir this year


The strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed for the fifth day on Sunday, triggering shortages of essentials of life in the landlocked valley.


Jammu-Srinagar highway shut for fifth day


Four soldiers were killed and two others injured after an avalanche hit their vehicle in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, an official said.

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