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Srinagar, June 27 (IANS) Over 50 people, including 15 security personnel, were injured in violence across Kashmir Friday as the agitation against the land allotment to the Amarnath shrine authorities entered it fifth day. The annual Hindu pilgrimage to the cave shrine was also temporarily suspended. Massive demonstrations were held ... Read more...

New Delhi, June 27 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will arrive here today on a four-day visit to carry forward the peace process between the two countries. Qureshi, who is visiting India at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee, will be accompanied by a six-member delegation ... Read more...

Jammu, June 26 (ANI): A shutdown is being observed in Jammu today against the politicisation of allotment of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board. On Wednesday, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that an all-party meeting has been convened to find solution to the issue. "'There will ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 25 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Wednesday decided to convene an all-party meeting soon to work out a consensus on the land allotment to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), but ruling coalition leader Mufti Muhammad Sayeed demanded the deal be first annulled. "Some ... Read more...

Pahalgam (Jammu and Kashmir), June 25 (ANI): The annual pilgrimage to Amarnath Yatra undertaken by hundreds of thousands of Hindus from across the country in summer, comes as a boon for owners of mules and ponies, guides, taxi operators, shopkeepers and hoteliers in militancy hit Jammu and Kashmir to ... Read more...

Bhubaneswar, June 25 (IANS) Family members in an Orissa village have chained a man for the past 12 years to prevent him from committing suicide, the police said Wednesday. Prasanta Behera, 40, is chained to a cot in his house in village Anantpur in Kendrapada district, 132 kms from here, ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 25 (ANI): N N Vohra will be sworn-in as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir at the Raj Bhavan here today. Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Justice S.K. Radhakrishnan will administer oath of office and secrecy to Vohra. On June 11, President Pratibha Patil ... Read more...

By Afzal Bhat Srinagar, June 24 (ANI): As part of promoting various ventures in the State, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has facilitated setting up of the first ever Ice Cream factory in the Kashmir Valley with the brand name--Dairy Foods. "This ice cream factory has created lots of opportunity ... Read more...

Jammu, June 24 (IANS) Panun Kashmir, a leading organization of Kashmiri Hindus who were forced to flee the Valley in the 1990s, Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop "Talibanization of Kashmir". Panun Kashmir convenor Agnishekhar, in a letter to the prime minister, said a grim situation was emerging ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 23 (IANS) Three people protesting the allotment of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) were wounded in Nowhatta area of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar Monday evening when police and paramilitary personnel used force to disperse a violent mob. Scores of people had gathered in ... Read more...

New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) Monday denied allegations that one of its trainers had made a "sexual attack" on a Bihar Military Police (BMP) cadet in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir. Over 100 recruits of the Bihar Military Police had fled the Udhampur camp ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 23 (IANS) Three people, two pilgrims and a driver, were killed while six others were injured Monday in a road accident near Baltal base camp of the Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir. "A Tata Sumo taxi returning with pilgrims from the Baltal base camp had a head ... Read more...

Islamabad, June 23 (IANS) Pakistan's Prime Minister Syed Yousauf Raza Gillani Monday told a Hurriyat delegation from India's Jammu and Kashmir that his government was committed to supporting the just struggle of Kashmiris and was determined to seek a peaceful solution of the issue in keeping with the aspirations of ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 23 (IANS) Security forces Monday defused a powerful landmine close to the Srinagar-Baltal route taken by pilgrims to the Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir. The landmine had been placed under a bridge near the national highway in Wussan village, about 30 km from here. The highway is ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 23 (IANS) The police here Monday put some Kashmiri separatist leaders under house arrest in order to prevent protest demonstrations against the allotment of forest land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB). "We have supported the protest call given by Syed Ali Shah Geelani's Tehreek-e-Hurriyat for today ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 22 (IANS) Four separatist militants and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper were killed Sunday in two separate gun battles in Jammu and Kashmir. Police said a fierce gunfight between two militants, holed up in a house in Shupribagh on the outskirts of Srinagar, and security forces ... Read more...

Noida, June 22 (IANS) A temple here Sunday organised a prayer for peace of the soul of Aarushi, the teenaged murder victim. "We organised a shanti havan in the morning, followed by prayers for the peace of Aarushi's soul," said Rohit Rana, son of Dheeraj Kumar who established the Baba ... Read more...

Doda (Jammu and Kashmir), June 22 (ANI): Security forces here on Saturday detected 20 kilograms of Improvised Explosive Device (IED), planted by militants. Security men with the help of sniffer dogs unearthed the IED, planted in the middle of the road. Superintendent of Police (Operation) in Doda, Randeep Kumar said that ... Read more...

By Papri Sri Raman Chennai, June 22 (IANS) India is gradually moving to use of one emergency telephone number across the country, 108, on the lines of America's 911 and Britain's 999. In June, the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand adopted this number for providing emergency services. A 108 service ... Read more...

Jammu, June 21 (IANS) More than 100 Bihar Police cadets fled Saturday from a Border Security Force (BSF) training centre in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir after an alleged sodomy attempt on one of their colleagues. According to official sources, the cadets, all of them from Bihar, fled after ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 21 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir will have two exclusive silk production centres within the next 18 months, Union Minister for Textiles Shankarsinh Vaghela said here Saturday. The silk clusters will come up in Nowshera in Jammu region and in Srinagar. "The cluster scheme will provide all farm and rearing ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 21 (ANI): Kulkdeep Khuda, Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police, has said that police was alert to any situation arising out of the presence of a large number of militants in the State. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a passing out parade, Khuda said ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 21 (ANI): Union Minister for Textiles Shankarsinh Vaghela will dedicate the Indian Institute of Carpet Technology and the Craft Development Institute to the nation here today. These projects will give a boost to the promotion and development of textiles and handicrafts in the State. The two projects ... Read more...

New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The government will spend Rs.15 billion on supplying edible oil at subsidised rate through the public distribution system in 15 states from next month. One million tonnes of imported edible oil will be made available at a subsidised rate of Rs.15 per kg, and each ... Read more...

Jammu, June 20 (IANS) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Friday said its firebrand leader Praveen Togadia will be here Sunday to protest calls by Muslim groups to take back land given to the Amarnath Hindu shrine authorities. VHP Jammu and Kashmir unit chief Rama Kant Dubey said the Muslim groups, ... Read more...

Bandipora (Jammu and Kashmir), June 19 (ANI): Bandiporas affair with Tongas hasnt ended in spite of the rest of the world moving towards fast cars and high technology. People of Bandipora town, which is situated about 80 kilometers from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, still use the "Tonga" for ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 20 (ANI): The Indian Institute of Carpet Technology and the Craft Development Institute will be declared open here by Union Minister of Textiles Shankersinh Vaghela tomorrow. These projects will give a boost to the promotion and development of textiles and handicrafts in the State. The two projects are ... Read more...

Jammu, June 20 (IANS) The bodies of four soldiers killed on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir have not yet been picked up by the Indian and Pakistan armies even as Pakistan claimed it had lost four troops in a gun fight with "some miscreants". The Indian ... Read more...

Srinagar, June 20 (ANI): A self-styled divisional commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit was killed in a joint operation by army and police in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla District today. According to sources, troops of 32 Rashtriya Rifles and Special Task Force (STF) of local police launched the operation at Dangiwats-Khaipora ... Read more...

Srinagar/Jammu, June 20 (IANS) Three days after it began, the annual Amarnath pilgrimage in Jammu and Kashmir was suspended Friday following heavy rain along the Jammu-Srinagar highway and slippery conditions on the two tracks from Baltal and Pahalgam that lead to the cave shrine, a police official said. The temporary ... Read more...

Shimla, June 19 (IANS) The 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri project in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh Thursday evening resumed power generation after the level of silt suddenly came down in the Sutlej river. The plant was closed for nine days, causing power shortage in north India including Punjab, Haryana and ... Read more...

Agartala, June 19 (IANS) State governments in the northeast have urged New Delhi to relax norms for the students of the region for admission into the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) across the country. "Keeping in view the inadequate educational infrastructure and other problems typical to the northeastern states, intervention ... Read more...

Islamabad , June 19 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minster Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that his country was in favour of a resolution of the Kashmir issue in line with the UN Security Council resolutions and the aspirations of the Kashmiris. Speaking at the 35th session of the OIC Council of ... Read more...

Allahabad , June 18 (ANI): About 500 devotees from Allahabad with their tonsured heads painted with different names of Lord Shiva have embarked on the annual pilgrimage to holy Amarnath cave in Jammu and Kashmir . They have painted their heads with different names of Lord Shiva like `Har Har ... Read more...

Manali (Himachal Pradesh), June 18 (ANI): The strategic Manali-Leh road that connects the remote region of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir to the rest of the country is blocked due to landslide on Wednesday. The landslide struck at Gulaba near Rohtang Pass blocking traffic on the 476-kilometres highway. A number ... Read more...