Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday said flag meetings between the BSF and Pakistan Rangers were important to ease border tension between India and Pakistan.


Flag meetings must to ease borer tensions: Abdullah


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Pakistan Monday continued to build pressure on the UN over the border tensions with India as it Monday briefed envoys of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council on the matter.


Pakistan briefs P5 envoys on border tensions


After an overnight lull, Pakistan troops Monday broke the ceasefire again, opening unprovoked firing on Indian positions on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, police said.


Pakistan opens fire on LoC again, woman injured


A soldier was killed Monday in a gunfight between militants and the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said.


Soldier killed in Kashmir gunfight


Pakistan has again approached the UN on the "deteriorating situation" along the Kashmir border, and called for an end to the Kashmir dispute in line with UN Security Council resolutions.


Border situation deteriorating, Pakistan tells UN


Two more civilians were injured in overnight mortar shelling by Pakistan Rangers along the International Border in Jammu district, police said here Sunday.


Two more civilians injured in Pakistani shelling


After a day's lull, the Pakistani Army Saturday resumed unprovoked firing at Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, while Pakistan Rangers started heavy shelling across the international border in Jammu district, officials said.


Pakistan resumes firing, shelling along LoC, border


After a day's lull, the Pakistani Army Saturday resumed unprovoked firing at Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.


Pakistan resumes unprovoked firing along LoC


A group of Kashmiri students studying in a private engineering college in Punjab have developed a unique android application (app) which gives all information related to the recent floods in Jammu and Kashmir on one platform.


Kashmiri students create App on flood information


The Pakistani Army Saturday resorted to unprovoked firing at Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.


Pakistani Army resumes unprovoked firing along LoC


Jammu and Kashmir government has submitted a proposal to the central government, seeking a special financial package of 44,000 crore rupees for the rehabilitation of flood affected people.


J&K government seeks Rs. 44,000 cr flood relief package from centre


With Jammu and Kashmir still trying to emerge from the worst flood in decades, a civil society group Friday demanded a probe in the causes of the deluge.


Civil society group demands probe in cause of flood in J&K


As darkness descended on the International Border in the Jammu region Friday evening, people's blood pressure  started rising.


Calm on border in Jammu for past 24 hours


A three-member team of the National Museum in New Delhi has begun conserving the historical artefacts and manuscripts at the Shri Pratap Singh (SPS) Museum in Srinagar that suffered extensive damage during the recent floods.


Flood ravaged SPS museum in Srinagar being restored


India Friday squarely blamed Pakistan for the tensions along the border, saying "de-escalation is entirely in Pakistan's hands" and also scoffed at it trying to term India the aggressor, saying the allegations were coming from a country that had harboured Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for over a decade.


Pakistan has to de-escalate tensions, will respond appropriately: India


Pakistan and India need to respect a 2003 ceasefire along the Kashmir border to end clashes "without indulging in blame-game and point-scoring", the Pakistani government said Friday.


Respect truce, war not the answer, says Pakistan


The Supreme Court Friday said that the rules and regulations governing the payment of insurance claims could be not come in the way of people of Kashmir who lost their properties in the recent devastating floods that had hit the state.


Ignore rules in calamity times, pay claims: SC to insurance firms


Director General Punjab Rangers Major  General Khan Tahir Javed  said Friday that Pakistan was only responding to unprovoked shelling by Indian security  forces from across the frontier.


'Pakistan only responds to Indian firing'


Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday directed the state administration to procure prefabricated structures to provide shelter ahead of the onset of winter to those rendered houseless by the recent floods.


Omar orders prefab structures for homeless Kashmir flood victims


Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said people who have been displaced from border villages of Jammu and Kashmir due to ceasefire violations by Pakistan should be compensated.


Government to compensate those displaced by Pak shelling


UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the escalation of violence along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and called for "dialogue" between India and Pakistan to resolve their differences.

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