The world's highest single-arch rail bridge is set to connect Indian-administered Kashmir with the rest of the country by train for the first time.
It took more than 20 years for the Indian railways to finish the bridge over the River Chenab in the (...)
The last time three-year-old Anirudh was captured on video, he lay listlessly on a hospital bed with wires attached to his hands.
His mother is seen desperately trying to feed him, talking about the games he can play once he recovers.
Three days (...)
Aalami Tehreek Urdu (International Urdu Movement), an organization based in India to promote the Urdu language, has decided to institute a global award in the name of Prof. Muzaffar Hanfi, a prominent Urdu Poet, critic, and writer. The award will be (...)
A grenade explosion at a bus stand in the Indian city of Jammu killed one person and wounded at least 29 on Thursday, police said, just weeks after a Pakistan-based militant group killed 40 paramilitary police in nearby Kashmir, almost sparking a (...)
Migrant workers are fleeing India's northern state of Jammu and Kashmir and tourist arrivals have fallen to a trickle amid an escalating conflict with Pakistan, badly hurting businesses in the Himalayan region known for its scenic beauty and fruit (...)
Indians took to the streets in celebration across the country on Tuesday after the government said it carried out air strikes inside Pakistan killing hundreds of militants in a training camp.
The reaction may be a sign that support for Prime (...)
India and Pakistan exchanged more gunfire across the disputed border in Kashmir on Sunday, Indian border guards said, according to Reuters.
One Indian border guard was wounded after Pakistan Rangers opened fire on a post in Kanachak, some 40 km (25 (...)
Eight defence personnel, including three crew members, were injured when an Indian Air Force helicopter crashed soon after taking off from the airport here Tuesday morning in the northern state .
The Mi-26 chopper carrying defence personnel took (...)
Qa'dah 08, 1431 / Oct. 16, 2010, SPA -- Two Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militants were killed Saturday in an encounter with the security forces in higher reaches of Budhal in Rajouri district of the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, defence sources (...)
Two army personnel were killed and 3
injured when unidentified militants, who sneaked into Indian
territory, attacked an Army patrol party's vehicle along the
Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The militants attacked (...)
India is withdrawing about 15,000 soldiers from Kashmir in a confidence-building move with the region"s separatist political groups as it seeks to restart negotiations to help end a two-decade insurgency, according to Reuters.
Kashmiri separatist (...)
A bus plunged into a gorge in mountainous northern India on Monday, killing at least 20
people and injuring 26, an official said.
The bus carrying 46 people went off the road as it tried
to take a sharp curve, said Iftekhar Ahmad, the (...)
A passenger bus plunged into a gorge in northern India early Wednesday, killing at least 25
people, police said.
An additional 40 people were injured in the accident near
Panthal, a town about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of
Jammu, a major (...)
A passenger bus plunged into a river
in the Indian part of Kashmir on Wednesday, killing at
least 33 people, AP quoted police sources as saying.
The accident occurred near Pranoo village, some 105 miles
(170 kilometers) northeast of Jammu town, (...)
ever chief minister was sworn in on Monday, promising to heal the wounds of a region hit by two decades of separatist rebellion against Indian rule which has killed thousands.
The 38-year-old Omar Abdullah is heir to a political dynasty that has (...)
India is considering building deep tunnels along its borders with China and Pakistan in Indian-administered Kashmir to protect its troops from nuclear, chemical and biological attacks, officials said.
“The Northern Command has mooted a proposal and (...)
At least 10 people were killed and as many missing, while 23 others injured when a mini bus skidded off the road and plunged into the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district today, police said, PTI reported.
The overloaded bus, which (...)
Suspected Muslim militants who slipped across the border from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir killed at least two civilians and an army officer in the Hindu-majority region of Jammu on Wednesday, police said.
After a shooting rampage around Jammu, (...)
Hundreds of Hindu protesters set fire to a police post on Wednesday in Jammu city in Indian Kashmir, defying a curfew imposed to defuse protests over a land row with the region's Muslims.
Hindu crowds also set fire to a government apartment in (...)
A bus veered off a mountain road in Indian Kashmir on Thursday and fell into a river, killing at least 28 people, police said.
The bus skidded off the road while negotiating a sharp bend and rolled down 300 feet (90 meters) into the Chenab River, (...)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday hoped that the Jammu and Kashmir state becomes a symbol of cooperation between India and Pakistan and the Line of Control (LoC) a line of peace.
"Our dialogue with Pakistan seeks to end the bitter legacy of (...)
Police killed three militants during a shootout in the Indian-controlled
portion of Kashmir on Thursday, a senior officer said, according to AP.
The gunfight occurred in Doda district, about 160
kilometers (100 miles) north of Jammu, the winter (...)
Security forces killed two suspected rebels during a shootout in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Tuesday, police said.
A joint army and police force raided the mountainous
village of Khari after receiving a tip that the gunmen were there, said (...)
Security forces killed one suspected rebel during a shootout early Saturday close to the cease-fire line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan, an army spokesman said.
The army recovered one AK-47 assault rifle from the
suspected insurgent (...)
SUSPECTED MILITANTS SHOT DEAD AT LEAST 22 HINDUS IN TWO SMALL VILLAGES IN INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR ON MONDAY, OFFICIALS SAID.
THE MASSACRE, ONE OF THE BIGGEST IN RECENT MONTHS, TOOK PLACE JUST DAYS BEFORE INDIAN PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH (...)
