'Militants waiting to infiltrate across the border'

Wednesday 25 March '09

Brigadier Gurmeet Singh said the operation is going on in the thick forests of Kupwara in the difficult mountainous terrain.

Kupwara, day 5: troops still battling infiltrators

Wednesday 25 March '09

The gunbattle between infiltrating militants and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district resumed on Tuesday night.....

Major, 3 soldiers killed in Kupwara encounter

Monday 23 March '09

An army Major and three soldiers were killed and another was injured in a fierce gun-battle in the dense Hafradu forests of north Kashmir.....

Army major, 3 soldiers killed in Kupwara encounter

Sunday 22 March '09

An Army Major and three soldiers were killed and another was injured in a fierce gun battle in the dense forests of North Kashmir’s Hafradu forests. The operation is still in progress.

Pak violates truce, Indian soldier hurt

Sunday 22 March '09

Pakistan on Saturday violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control in North Kashmir’s Uri sector.

Pak troops violate ceasefire, exchange fire on LoC

Saturday 21 March '09

Troops of India and Pakistan exchanged firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri’s Kamalkote sector.

Bomai killing: Army probe finds officer, two soldiers guilty

Friday 20 March '09

Army has completed its inquiry into the killing of two civilians at Bomai village in Sopore and held the Junior Commissioned Officer and two soldiers accountable.

Civilian killed in Pulwama, case against CRPF

Thursday 19 March '09

Even as Home Minister P Chidambaram was addressing a press conference in Jammu pledging zero tolerance towards human rights violation in the state....

14 years on, Baramulla’s dream hospital still building

Wednesday 4 March '09

Dreams attached to the new hospital have started fading and many believe that this hospital will take another two decades to complete.

This district hospital is a big primary health centre

Monday 2 March '09

The district hospital in Baramulla is suffering from shortage of both doctors and equipment. Doctors are lost to private practice and equipment to lack of doctors.

India may crack into list of top walnut producers in five years, say J-K varsity scientists

Friday 27 February '09

Scientists at Jammu and Kashmir’s agriculture university claim to have worked out the perfect script to make India one among world’s top walnut producers....

Kashmir lone children’s hospital craves for facilities

Tuesday 24 February '09

When the Valley’s lone children’s hospital got a fresh building inside G B Panth hospital in 2006 it was thought that its miseries would be over, but this is far from true.

Valley develops country’s first scab resistant apples

Friday 13 February '09

After more than a decade of hectic efforts and numerous trials, scientists at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture.

No money from PoK, so no apples: Kashmiris

Thursday 5 February '09

Kashmir's Fruit Growers, who organised massive protests for opening of the Srinagar-Muzuffarabad road for the trade activities, now have stopped sending their apple consignments to PoK.

Army kills three unidentified militants in J&K

Monday 2 February '09

In an ongoing encounter, Army killed three unidentified militants atop a mountain in the forests of Handwara.

RS polls: Cong may field Azad, Soz, Karan Singh in J&K

Tuesday 27 January '09

The Congress is likely to field three of its seniormost leaders in the coming election to J-K’s four Rajya Sabha seats with party sources revealing that Union Minister and JKPCC chief.

Sikh youth held for ‘LeT links’

Saturday 24 January '09

For the first time in the history of J-K militancy, the state police arrested a Sikh youth from North Kashmir...

Global orders for walnut kernels drying up

Friday 16 January '09

Just when Kashmir’s walnut kernel had begun doing brisk business in the international markets, recession hit and its rates tumbled, resulting in heavy losses to the growers, traders and exporters alike...

Migrant votes tip the scales for this business graduate

Monday 29 December '08

When 34-year-old MBA graduate Javid Dar emerged from the Rafiabad counting centre, he was sure of defeating two former cabinet ministers.

Shrinking fields don’t stop bumper paddy crop in Valley

Friday 19 December '08

Even as Kashmir loses thousands of hectares of its agricultural land to urbanisation...

Sonia’s message from LoC: we want amity but will fight terror head on

Thursday 4 December '08

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday warned India’s “neighbours” not to mistake its desire for friendship with them.

Development in Valley, Rahul talks terror in Jammu

Saturday 29 November '08

On the Line of Control in Tanghdar, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday sought votes for the party in the name of development and prosperity.

Ahead of second phase, 3 grenade attacks in Valley

Saturday 22 November '08

Two days ahead of the second phase of the Assembly elections, violence returned to Kashmir.

Kashmir fruit industry under a blanket of untimely snow

Friday 21 November '08

Just when Valley growers were celebrating the bumper fruit crop and the beginning of cross LoC trade, early snowfall in Kashmir this winter ruined their party.

First Cong rally in J&K talks peace, development

Friday 14 November '08

The Congress on Thursday kickstarted its campaign for Jammu and Kashmir from Sonwari, calling peace, development and eradication of corruption as its main agenda.