Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari Sunday visited Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir amid a rousing welcome in the cold desert region of the state. 
 
Ansari is the first vice president of the country to visit the Kargil sector, bordering Pakistan-administered part of Kashmir, where ...

Jammu and Kashmir will host an international ski championship from March 1, 2009. According to state's tourism minister, Nawang Rigzin Jora, the four-day international sports event will take place at the snow-clad Gulmarg resort in Kashmir. The minister also informed that the state's tourism ...

Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd has inked an accord with the state government to set up IT centres in the state. Under the newly signed agreement, as many as 1109 service centres will be set up in all the 22 districts which will cover 6654 villages and generate 2000 jobs for the computer-skilled ...

Dr. Farooq Abdullah, former Chief Minister of J & K and President of National Conference, was elected to Rajya Sabha along with his party colleague Mohammad Shafi Uri, on Friday (February 13).
 
According to the returning officer, while Farooq Abdulla polled 27 votes, his party man ...

The National Conference party of Jammu and Kashmir has got former CM Farooq Abdullah as its president once again. Farooq Abdullah was made the president of the party because Omar Abdullah who earlier held the post became the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on January 5. Farooq Abdullah had ...

Jammu and Kashmir Governor N. N. Vohra on Wednesday (7th January) reconstituted the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) by appointing six new members including santoor maestro Pandit Bhjan Sopori, spiritual leader Sri Ravi Shankar and leading writer Kapila Vatsayan.
 
According to a ...

The 87-year-old former CM of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Mohammed Shah passed away on Tuesday (January 6). The president of the Awami National Conference, Shah was rushed to the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Srinagar following severe cardiac arrest. According to the doctor at ...

The 38-year-old president of National Conference (NC) party, Omar Abdullah became the youngest chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir after he took oath on Monday (January 5). Congress MLA Tara Chand took oath as the deputy chief minister of the state. Omar Abdullah's NC party has formed a ...

Finally, all sorts of confusion were cleared off when National Conference (NC) patron Farooq Abdullah proposed the name of his son Omar Abdullah for the office of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. While interacting with media, Farooq Abdullah stated that he will recommend his party to ...

Former chief minister and National Conference (NC) patron Farooq Abdullah has expressed his wish to become the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. State assembly poll results showed that NC has emerged as the single largest party overtaking the People's Democratic Party (PDP), but they are short ...

The state of Jammu and Kashmir got its first army public school on November 12, 2008. Army chief General Deepak Kapoor inaugurated the army school at Pahalgam hill resort in south Kashmir. While delivering his speech the army chief stated that the education system in Kashmir valley has ...

The Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested the chairman of the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Yasin Malik. The leader was accused of propagating anti-election campaign in Kashmir. Yasin Malik urged the people of Kashmir to boycott the upcoming assembly elections in the state ...

The state of Jammu and Kashmir got its first ever train service on October 11, 2008. The Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh inaugurated the Srinagar to Anantnag train service on his two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir. He also inaugurated the Bhaglihar hydro-electricity project in ...

The Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh has commissioned the Baglihar hydro-electricity project on the river Chenab of Jammu and Kashmir on October 10, 2008. Manmohan Singh was on a two-day visit to Kashmir. The installation of this hydro-electricity project has been opposed by neighboring ...

The state of Jammu and Kashmir is all set to get its first train on October 11, 2008. According to official sources, the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh will flag the train off from Budgam to Nowgam during his two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir. The short distance train connecting central ...

Ahead of the Navratra festival in Katra, the base camp of holy cave shrine of Vaishnodevi will be provided tight security to avoid any type of terrorist attack. As the part of the plan, the police have decided to install close circuit television cameras (CCTVs). The cameras would also be placed at ...

In a bold move to foster the industrial sector as well as employment in the Kashmir valley, Union Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday, September 22, 2008, laid the foundation stone for the very first steel plant there. Located at Lassipora industrial growth centre in south Kashmir's Pulwama ...

Hurriyat, and PDP have rejected J&K-SASB (Shri Amarnath Shrine Board) accord. The accord gives right to SASB to manage forestland at Baltal during the pilgrimage season. The accord establishes that the state government will set aside land at Baltal and Domail comprising 800 kanal for exclusive ...

The Amarnath land row in Jammu region that has been hogging the media and the national limelight for over two months now got finally suspended on Sunday, August 31. This happened after the government panel along with a company of Hindu groups conceded providing the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board ...

Irked with the statement of UNCHR (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) India has remarked that the statement was irresponsible and uncalled for. The Foreign Ministry is livid against the statement of UNCHR that there has been violation of human rights by J&K security forces in dealing ...

Separatist forces in Kashmir once again have started talking offensive. One of the strongest separatist party Hurriyat with other fractions of it have decided to march to the United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOG) office in Jammu. They will present a memorandum and will ask the ...

After adding many accolades for holding successful elections in various parts of India during tough times, now, Election Commission has the challenge of holding elections in the state of J&K. In order to go smoothly, the Commission will review circumstances in the state to hold elections ...

Putting law and order in front, J&K police detained former MP Chief Minister Miss Uma Bharti. She was there intending to participate in Amarnath protest going on for weeks. Similarly, other BJP leader Arun Jaitley along with Hindu saint Ritambhara too were detained by police, these too were ...

Amarnath row does not seem to stop it seems. Earlier political turmoil and violence disrupted the valley because of the issue and now after the committal of suicide by a youth activist for Amarnath cause again has created tension in the region. According to reports activist collapsed because of ...

The helicopter service from the north Kashmir Baltal base to the reverent Amarnath Cave Shrine got suspended due to bad weather on Sunday, July 20. This has, however, not deterred devout pilgrims, who continued their journey on foot to the 3,888-metre-high cave amid intermittent showers. Officials ...

Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) has dropped its plan involving the installation of a marble Shiv Lingam at the mouth of the Amarnath cave shrine. The decision came after the board received a high court notice in the regard. B.B. Viyas, Principal Secretary to the J&K Governor and an official ...

The Amarnath yatra began early on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, as the first batch of pilgrims left for cave shrine from the Jammu base camp. The pilgrims were escorted by personnel of paramilitary forces as part of the three-tier security for the devotees. Buses, trucks and light motor vehicles carrying ...

Militants on Saturday, June 14, 2008 fired a rifle grenade at the Civil Secretariat, injuring two persons. Amongst the two injured, one is a CRPF constable. P Tripathy, CRPF spokesman revealed that the militants fired one grenade towards the Civil Secretariat but the explosive landed near Neelam ...

The paid darshan scheme enforced at the venerated Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu & Kashmir region, which allowed special ’darshan’ and ’aarti’ through special gates and passages to devotees on extra payment, has been scrapped. This decision was taken by the Shri Mata ...

NN Vohra, former Union Home Secretary will be the new Governor of the state of Jammu & Kashmir. He will be replacing SK Sinha, whose tenure ended earlier this month. Mr. Vohra is known to be a seasoned and veteran diplomat and has occupied several high posts in the government, including being ...