The Supreme Court has said “some time needs to be given to restore normality” in Jammu and Kashmir and declined to issue any directives immediately to remove the restrictions there.“It is possib...

The Anantnag parliamentary seat in the Valley recorded its lowest turnout in decades on Tuesday but the reason may have its roots in a brief gunfight three years ago.That July 8, 2016, encounter in Ba...

The Indian State was never quite in love with journalists, but press freedom has been rather obviously endangered since 2014. One of the most difficult places in the country for journalists and newspa...

The quest for votes has finally melted the heart of Kashmir’s Iron Lady and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti.With elections scheduled in a few months, Mehbooba on Monday apologised for a remark ...

Twenty years ago, as the war over Kargil began to pirouette, was when I first went into Badami Bagh, the vast garrison headquarters of the 15th Corps on Srinagar’s southern flank. Journalists requir...

In death, Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani has brought a rare honour to this hamlet, nestled among orchards and paddy fields. He is the first Kashmiri to be chosen for the Ashoka Chakra, the country’s hi...

He lost his father and two brothers to the militants’ bullets. He and his family have faced half-a-dozen rebel attacks during a decades-long association with the pro-India camp.But none of this enti...

Terror group Hizbul Mujahideen's de facto chief Reyaz Naikoo, on the run for eight years, was killed on Wednesday by security forces in his village in Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.Anticipat...

Villages like Shaar, Khrew and Mandankpal in south Kashmir provide a clue why the Valley has not exploded as it did during past agitations.Like much of the countryside elsewhere, they faced a brutal c...