In occupied Kashmir, strict curfew remained imposed, for the second consecutive day all across the Kashmir Valley to thwart the Lal Chowk march, which was planned by the Jammu and Kashmir Coordination Committee. Heavy contingents of police and ...

Indian security forces detained two top Muslim leaders in Kashmir amid strict curfew to prevent Kashmiris from holding a pro-independence rally. Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the leaders of two factions of pro-independence All Parties Hurriyat ...

Occupation Indian troops fanned out across Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) on Tuesday to enforce a curfew ahead of the burial of a key Kashmiri leader martyred in the growing conflict, officials said. Sheikh Abdul Aziz was martyred by ...

Suspected militants in Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) on Thursday shot dead a former rebel and three of his family members, including his wife and daughter, police said. A police spokesman said Ghulam Hussain was a former member of the disputed region's main militant group, the pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahedin, who surrendered in ...

Indian troops shot dead four Islamic militants on Saturday in revolt-hit Kashmir after the rebels snuck across a militarised border from adjoining Pakistan, police said. The militants were killed in a "fierce gun battle with (Indian) soldiers after they ignored repeated orders to surrender," police ...

India's defence minister warned on Saturday that attacks by separatist "militants" in the disputed Kashmir region could increase as local elections draw near. The comments by A.K. Anthony came a day after suspected rebels killed five people, including four Indian soldiers, and injured 12 civilians in two attacks in the ...

India has deployed more 6,000 additional troops and 70 companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in occupied Kashmir. According to  private TV, 5,000 troops with high-tech Israeli equipment have been mobilised in Kupwara district, which will further strengthen the brigades of the 28- division in Tangdhar, Keran, Machil ...

The death toll in a weekend gunfight between suspected rebels and troops in Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) has risen to eight, a senior military officer said on Monday. The prolonged shootout that erupted on Sunday in the Himalayan region's Samba area, 70 kilometres (44 miles) south of Occupied Kashmir's winter capital ...

Police fired tear gas to break up a protest by stone-throwing demonstrators against alleged prison abuses as a strike paralysed life here on Saturday. Police said more than 100 young Kashmiri protesters hurled rocks at them ...