Elections are considered to be the life line of healthy, vibrant democracies. But polls in Kashmir have, over the years, raised serious questions about this inference. In May this year, when the rest ...

No one doubts the paramount importance of national security. But its necessity cannot become an alibi for inconveniencing the people who should benefit first from measures for citizens’ protection. ...

National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on Thursday said cases registered against Jammu and Kashmir youth since 2015, after the PDP-BJP alliance came to power in the state, would be reviewed ...

Suspected militants on Saturday shot dead a woman special police officer in a rare attack on a female cop in Kashmir, triggering widespread condemnation.The police said SPO Khushboo Jan was shot at fr...

Jailed former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s own flock is deserting her Peoples Democratic Party to hold the Tricolour aloft in their hands, brushing aside her prophecy that no one would do so in t...

The National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said on Friday that they were mulling moving court against the Centre's decision to extend the 77th and 103rd Amendments of the Indi...

If you flip through the pages of the local dailies in the Kashmir Valley, their pro-government tilt would stare you in the face. Press releases from the state’s information and public relations depa...

National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Friday backed Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s credentials as prospective Prime Minister, a tricky subject many in the Opposition camp have so far prefe...

The Peoples Democratic Party has expelled its Rajya Sabha MP Nazir Ahmad Laway for attending the swearing-in ceremony of Jammu and Kashmir’s first lieutenant-governor on Thursday, making him the fir...

The Election Commission’s decision not to hold Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir with the Lok Sabha polls has prompted charges that it’s an admission of the failure of the Centre’s Kashmir...