The Latest Breaking News from Jammu and Kashmir

“As per the information provided by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, the land of 610 applicants [migrants] has been restored in the last five years,” Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said

He said if there is any pending issue between Pakistan and India it is that part of Jammu and Kashmir which continues to be under the illegal occupation of the neighbouring country.

One terrorist has been neutralised in an ongoing encounter in the Nadigam area of Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police informed.

Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday informed that they have killed five terrorists including Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) commander Zahid Wani in dual encounters in the Kashmir valley in the last 12 hours.

Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday said it arrested a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Jahangir Naikoo of Memander Shopian at Chadoora Budgam.

The inputs came out after the NIA submitted its charge sheet on Saturday against these four terrorists in a special court in Jammu in LeM criminal conspiracy case. Full Story

Students of the Delhi University held a protest against the lockdown in Kashmir at the Arts Faculty of North Campus on Thursday. It is over 70 days since the Indian government removed Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and put the valley on lockdown. 

The officials issuing detention orders under the Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir are mere rubber stamps. This is a common refrain among rights activists and lawyers fighting PSA cases. They argue that this law has been misused by the state ever since it received the governor’s assent on…

At the “Media Facilitation Centre” in Srinagar’s Sarovar Portico, three glum faces await the arrival of Rohit Kansal, Jammu and Kashmir’s Principal Secretary of Planning. The three individuals are the family members of 28-year-old Irfan Amin Malik, a Tral-based journalist working for Greater Kashmir, the largest circulated daily in Kashmir.