Jammu and Kashmir

Restoration of J&K’s statehood and economic development will be uppermost on the agenda of the Omar Abdullah government.

The results also indicate a triumph of Kashmir’s mainstream political forces over separatist sympathizers.

While foreign media were denied access, over a dozen foreign diplomats from New Delhi visited polling stations in the Srinagar and Budgam districts.

People say they knew their votes won't solve the dispute over Kashmir, but provided a rare window to express their frustration with direct Indian control.

The banned organization is backing independent candidates from several constituencies, marking a shift in its political strategy.

Behind the government’s narrative of new stability and prosperity lies suppressed, collective anger.

The real contest for power will unfold after election results are announced on October 8.

Restoration of J&K’s statehood and free and fair assembly elections would be the first step, albeit a small and long overdue one, toward righting the wrongs done to its people since 2019.

The targeted attack on Hindu pilgrims traveling by bus to a revered temple came weeks ahead of the start of the annual Amarnath Yatra.

The National Conference won two of three seats in the valley while the third seat was won by a jailed Kashmiri political separatist.

Kashmiris are voting in larger numbers than in the past, and seem determined to defeat the allegedly BJP-backed Apni Party and People’s Conference.

The Indian PM promised more development and opportunity, but was mum on the question of local elections and statehood.

The apex court ruled that both the substance and the procedure adopted by the Narendra Modi government to revoke Article 370 are constitutionally valid.

The gun battle took place in a mountainous and forested area in Rajouri district near the Line of Control.

While deeply unpopular in Kashmir, the move resonated in much of India, where the Modi government was cheered by supporters.

As tensions continue to simmer along the India-China border, the project will not only bolster India's security but also serve as a symbol of its presence in the challenging terrain of the Himalayas.

Village militias were first formed at the height of the militancy in the mid-1990s but were subsequently disbanded.

While enthusing India’s EV sector, the news left environmentalists wary of mega-mining initiatives in the geologically and ecologically sensitive Kashmir Valley.

In Kashmir, the Congress Party’s Rahul Gandhi set a conciliatory tone by expressing support for the restoration of the democratic processes and Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood.

Its notice for the Indus Water Treaty’s modification comes in the wake of a series of hydroelectric projects planned on the Indus valley rivers in India.

The Gupkar Alliance does not seem to have a promising future.

The seven new dams that India is constructing in the fragile ecology of Indian-administered Kashmir will carry a high human and environmental cost.

Altaf Ahmad Shah was in Delhi’s Tihar jail since 2017 in a terror funding case.

Assiduously promoting the Amarnath yatra as religious tourism, the government has recklessly raised the number of pilgrims stomping through this fragile environment.