Three Jammu and Kashmir policemen and three Pakistani terrorists were killed in a fierce gunfight in Kathua district on Thursday, Times of India reported. The clash erupted when security forces con…
Kathua has become a key infiltration route for Pakistan-based terrorists trying to reach Udhampur, Doda, and Kishtwar, and further into Kashmir. A series of terror incidents over the past year high…
In view of the ongoing operation, security forces are on high alert in Kathua. The Border Security Force (BSF) has also heightened vigilance along the Pakistan border, as intelligence reports warn …
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has dismissed three government employees for alleged terror links, India Today reported, citing sources.
Among the sacked employees are a police…
A US plane carrying 119 Indian nationals deported for illegally entering the country is scheduled to land at Amritsar airport on Saturday (February 15) night, with another flight expected the…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday directed all security agencies to step up the fight against terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir with the goal of achieving ‘zero infiltration’.
Chairing two…
Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama saw a historic shift in public celebrations on the 76th Republic Day as it joined the rest of India, unfurling the national flag for the first time at Tral Chowk on Sunday….
The mysterious illness continues to keep residents of Badhaal village in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir under panic after the sixth child of a local man died suffering from the disease, taking…
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for delivering on his promise to conduct “free and fair” elections in the Union Territory and also urged PM Modi to…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the strategically important Z-Morh Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sonamarg town on Monday.
The inauguration of this key project will provide a boost to both…
Simran Singh, a popular RJ and Instagram influencer, dies by suicide in Gurugram. She was a hugely popular freelance radio jockey from Jammu and Kashmir. Simran was living on rent in a society in…
At least five soldiers were killed and five others were injured when a vehicle carrying them skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Tuesday…
Cold wave continues to grip North Indian states. Weather in Delhi-NCR along with many parts of North India is witnessing a dip in temperatures with light rains. Whereas the mountains are receiving…
The Winter Session of parliament will end on December 20 and with just five sessions left, there has been a curiosity as to when the BJP-led NDA government will table the two Bills related to the One…
In the Vande Bharat trains that will go to Kashmir, the Indian Railways has included unique amenities including central heating, according to authorities.
The first train directly linking the Kashmir…
Days after the election, the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly session convened on Monday and since then it has been witnessing ruckus. The situation turned murky on Thursday when a brawl broke out after…
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday offered his condolences on the demise of Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Devender Singh Rana and shared some of the fun moments spent with the BJP…
A day after an attack on Indian Army vehicle, three terrorists have been killed in Akhnoor in Jammu & Kashmir, said officials.
Terrorists had fired on an ambulance of the Indian Army on Monday morning…
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Friday said attacks like the one in Gulmarg would continue to occur until India and Pakistan found a way to be friends and that would end Jammu and…
Terror has engulfed the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. There have been four different terror attacks in the past week, the last one occurring on Thursday evening (October 24) when two soldiers…
A Chinese “interests” angle has surfaced in the terror attack carried out on Sunday evening by the Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba, on the labour camp at a…
Seven employees of an infrastructure company, including a doctor and six migrant workers, were killed after terrorists opened fire on a camp housing construction workers on Sunday evening near the…
A non-local man was reportedly killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, officials said on Friday, making it the first time after months that a nonresident came under terror attack…
After a gap of nearly a decade, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar travelled to Pakistan — a first by an external affairs minister in nine years — for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meet….
President’s rule was withdrawn in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, paving the way for the formation of a new government in the union territory.
A gazette notification to this effect was issued by the…
Two independent MLAs in Haryana extended their support to BJP on Wednesday with others including India’s richest woman Savitri Jindal in talks with the party.
Tally of the Bharatiya Janata Party,…
Jammu and Kashmir, which held its first Assembly election in 10 years, has given its verdict. It picked the National Conference-Congress alliance. The two parties together won 49 out of 90 seats in…
As Jammu and Kashmir returns to assembly elections after a decade, the Congress-National Conference (NC) coalition is set to edge out the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), indicating a significant shift…
Counting of votes is underway in Jammu and Kashmir, where assembly election was held after 10 years. The results, or the poll verdict, will pave way for J&K’s first elected government since the…
It has been a day full of surprises.
After trailing in early leads in Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged third-time lucky — it is set for a big win in the Hindi heartland state.
In…
The votes are in and officials have begun counting ballots cast in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections — the first in the region since Article 370 was abrogated. All eyes are on the Union…
Political parties and leaders wait with bated breath for the Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir Assembly poll results on Tuesday, with the ruling BJP expecting to retain Haryana for a third term, and the…
Israel has pulled down a map of India from its official website which had incorrectly depicted a part of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan. The map was taken down after a massive criticism on social…
In an exclusive interview with Firstpost Managing Editor Palki Sharma at the Chanakya Defence Dialogue in New Delhi on Tuesday, Indian Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi discussed a range of critical…
After over four years of the ongoing military stand-off in eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the situation on India-China borders is “stable but not normal”, Indian Army chief…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said India would have given a larger bailout package to Pakistan than sought by Islamabad from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had the neighbouring…
Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus met Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) during which the two leaders called for the revival…
Amid tight security, Jammu and Kashmir will hold Phase 2 of Assembly elections on Wednesday, with voting scheduled from 7 am to 6 pm.
Over 2.5 million voters will decide the fate of 239 candidates in…
The second phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections is over. Wednesday’s polling process went smoothly with no cases of violence or skirmishes reported.
Voting took place across 26 assembly…
After years of ambiguity, Jammu and Kashmir is all set to vote for its new government in the assembly elections. The region will go to polls on Wednesday in the first phase of the election.
The Jammu…
Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress on Monday released its manifesto, with key promises of restoring statehood, forming a minority commission in J&K within 100…
Days before the first round of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army on Wednesday said it killed two terrorists.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the 9 Corps of Army said two…
An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists at the Kathua-Basantgarh border in Udhampur area of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.
Based on specific intelligence, an operation was…
Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah came down heavily on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday for his remark on reservation and said it has once again brought to the forefront the…
Engineer Rashid, the MP from Kashmir’s Baramulla, has been granted interim bail for 23 days on Tuesday by a Delhi court. This will only be the second time since the independent leader walked out of…
In the first show of force in Jammu and Kashmir since 1987, the outlawed Jamaat-e-Islami held an election rally for the first time on Sunday.
As the Jamaat stands proscribed, it has indirectly fielded…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday that India is ready to start dialogue with Pakistan if it stops terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a rally in this assembly segment of Ramban…
A scenic beauty par excellence, Jammu and Kashmir has been a special story in India, mostly for political reasons. It goes to the polls after 10 years in three phases on September 18, 25 and October…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday released BJP’s manifesto for the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
The document details the party’s pledges and future strategies to enhance…
On the intervening night of August 28-29, security forces in Jammu and Kashmir engaged in an encounter with terrorists in Rajouri district, following a targeted cordon and search operation. This…
The Centre on Monday announced the creation of five new districts in the union territory (UT) of Ladakh.
The five new districts are named Zanskar, Drass, Sham, Nubra, and Changthang. So far, Leh and…
The Election Commission on Tuesday issued the notification for the first phase of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, marking the start of the nomination process.
Voting will be held on 24…
Years after the ties turned sour over Kashmir in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim are turning a new leaf in bilateral relations.
Ibrahim is on his first visit to India…
Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held in three phases starting September 18, while Haryana will head to polls on October 1, Election Commission of India announced on Friday.
Addressing…
The Election Commission of India on Friday will unveil the schedule for the upcoming General Election to Legislative Assemblies. While the Commission did not specify the states and Union Territories…
The ECI is likely to release the dates of the subsequent assembly polls today itself at 3 PM as assembly elections are imminent in Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir Union…
Since taking over in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a slew of legislative as well as executive actions that have come to shape his premiership.
While some of these actions are in line…
Ahead of the 78th Independence Day celebrations, national capital New Delhi and neighbouring states have turned into a fortress. Security has been intensified and the intelligence agencies have been…
Election Commission of India (ECI) has scheduled a meeting with Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Wednesday to review the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the Assembly polls, the dates for…
Article 370 of the Indian Constitution was a landmark provision that granted special autonomy to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Enacted in 1949, this article was designed to recognise and…