The state administration on Thursday confirmed it had identified the official who had stamped a citizen’s palm as a form of travel permission, adding that he had claimed to have done it “in good f...

An image of a stamped palm, whose authenticity is yet to be established officially, has served as a fresh reminder of how security-driven clampdowns can trigger unexpected consequences and help those ...

The Centre has found a candidate fit to be sent to the “de-radicalisation camps” that Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat spoke about last month — former chief minister and former Union minister ...

Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Saturday said it was not the proper forum to scrutinise the merits of an administrative decision to detain a person under the Public Safety Act, the stringent law that ...

Kashmir witnessed two killings the past week but while the one attributed to the forces evoked a storm of protests, the one blamed on militants raised hardly a murmur.The lone voice censuring the “s...

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...

Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti hit Srinagar’s streets with her supporters on Saturday against the Centre’s ban on the separatist Jamaat-e-Islami, with which her party is alleged to have had ...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Sunday briefly sealed the office of the pro-India People’s Democratic Party in Jammu ahead of its president Mehbooba Mufti’s visit, the development unfoldin...

Normality can wait in Kashmir but so-called grassroots democracy cannot.The administration of governor Satya Pal Malik on Sunday announced elections to the second tier of panchayats in Jammu and Kashm...

No one in the government has ever called the three detained former chief ministers of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir 'anti-national,' home minister Amit Shah has said, adding that a decision...