J vs K

Valley hails Obama victory, sees 'hope'

As political parties in the Valley, cutting across the separatist-mainstream divide, welcomed Barack Obama’s victory in the US presidential elections...

Dinner invite lands Mirwaiz in a Bollywood spot

When senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq met Bollywood producer Bunty Walia and director Rahul Dholakia on Wednesday for kehwa...

Separatist to unite: Yasin Malik will marry Pak painter

Separatist leader and JKLF chief Yasin Malik is engaged to Mashal Malik, a Pakistani painter who is studying in London.

Yasin Malik’s arrest sparks protests

With the arrest of JKLF chief Yasin Malik during an overnight raid at his residence, the Government has begun a crackdown on the separatist leadership.

Looking for a window

It was August 11, 2008, when the change first became visible. As hundreds of thousands swelled the highway to the Line of Control...

For now it’s just barter between ‘two Kashmirs’: J-K

The Jammu and Kashmir Government says the trade between the divided Kashmir is domestic and not international.

Less time at hand, J-K parties feel poll jitters

As the Election Commission has sounded the poll bugle in Jammu and Kashmir with just four days to file nomination papers for the first phase...

Kashkari family just memories under a bridge

The 35-year-old Indian who has been tasked with bailing out the US economy from the credit crunch has his roots in Srinagar’s Safriyar locality.

Srinagar freezes under curfew

With massive iron barricades, thousands of policemen and a strict curfew, Srinagar becomes a gated city

Clampdown in Valley ahead of Lal chowk march

An indefinite curfew was clamped across the Kashmir valley on Sunday in order to prevent separatists from organising the much-publicised...

Most wanted in Delhi, Abu al-Qama is dead for J&K

Delhi Police claims that Lashkar-e-Toiba’s PoK-based commander “Abu al-Qama is the man who directs the Indian Mujahideen...

17 babies die in top J-K hospital in two months, probe ordered

While Kashmir is in the middle of a political crisis, newborn babies are dying in its top tertiary-care hospital, the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences...

Raj Bhawan to Lal Chowk: Yatra to the Valley mess

It was not just the transfer of 100 acres of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board that provoked the widespread protests in the Valley.