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The conflict between India and Pakistan goes back to Partition in 1947. Conflict has flared up regularly in Kashmir since then including in 2019 (above) and now in 2025. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

Kashmir’s ‘Black Day’ a reminder that the freedom struggle continues

The people of Kashmir and Palestine have suffered oppression for many decades, both starting with the British and then by India and Israel, respectively

Pre-paid cellphones a security risk, says Indian govt

India’s home minister said on Wednesday that pre-paid cellphones may be banned in Kashmir as concerns grow that they are impossible to trace.

Twenty killed as avalanches sweep Indian Kashmir

Twenty people were killed by avalanches and 15 others were missing in Indian Kashmir as the heaviest snowfall in recent years brought the Himalayan region to a standstill,…

Indian soldiers paraded naked in Kashmir

Hundreds of angry Kashmiri villagers paraded two Indian soldiers naked through the streets after they were ”caught trying to rape” a 17-year-old girl, witnesses and newspaper…

Anglers await return of Kashmir’s ‘tiger fish’

A giant freshwater carp nicknamed the "tiger fish" for its great fighting abilities is set to return to the fast-flowing rivers of Indian Kashmir, officials say. Scientists have…

India: Kashmir rebels still operating from Pakistan

Training camps for Muslim militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir are still functioning across the border in Pakistan, the Indian army said on Friday, ahead of talks between…

Kashmir city erupts in protest over death penalty

Police fired teargas shells in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday to quell violent protests over the planned execution of a Kashmiri man for his role in a 2001 militant attack on…

Grenade attacks kill seven tourists in Kashmir

Seven tourists were killed and 35 people injured on Tuesday in a series of grenade attacks targeting holiday areas in the main city of revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, police said. In…

Blast rips through tourist bus in Indian Kashmir

At least three tourists were killed and seven wounded on Thursday when a bomb planted by suspected Islamic rebels blew up a tourist bus in Indian Kashmir’s summer capital, police…

Army seals off bloodied capital of Indian Kashmir

Indian troops sealed off large parts of Kashmir’s summer capital following random grenade attacks and murders ahead of a visit on Wednesday by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.…

Quake survivors suffer in harsh winter

Survivors of the devastating earthquake that shook Kashmir three months ago are showing signs of hypothermia and frostbite, a doctor said on Monday, as temperatures plunged below…

Indian Kashmir casts net to lure fishermen

Fisheries inspector Muntasir Rah beams proudly as he struggles to hold steady a net full of thrashing trout at a hatchery in insurgency-racked Indian Kashmir. And when peace…

Powerful car bomb explodes in Indian Kashmir

Four people were killed and 45 wounded when a powerful car bomb triggered by Islamic rebels ripped through a busy intersection in the main city of Indian Kashmir on Wednesday,…

Civilians trapped in intense Indian Kashmir clashes

Intense clashes between troops and Islamic militants holed up in the heart of Indian Kashmir’s summer capital of Srinagar continued into Saturday, leaving dozens of civilians…

Kashmir’s deadly bus route

It is a five-hour journey through beautiful scenery in the northern foothills of the Himalayas. But when 20 passengers boarded two coaches under the snow-capped peaks in Srinagar…

Suicide attack on Indian Kashmir govt building

At least two police officers were killed on Thursday when heavily armed militants raided the administrative headquarters of Indian Kashmir, trapping about 250 civilians who were…

Assassination attempt as India gears up for elections

Muslim separatist militants in Indian Kashmir narrowly missed a former state chief minister in a grenade attack as the revolt-hit state geared up for national elections, police…

Kashmir grenade attack hits crowded market

About 60 people were injured on Monday when suspected Islamic rebels hurled a hand grenade that exploded in a crowded market near a bus terminal in Indian Kashmir, police said.…

Five killed, 51 hurt in Kashmir blast

Five people were killed and 51 injured in revolt-racked Indian Kashmir when Islamic rebels detonated a grenade to escape from a house where they had tried to abduct a civilian,…

India makes dramatic peace gestures

India has stunned Kashmiris with a range of surprise announcements — from agreeing to talk with separatist politicians to a proposed bus service connecting the portions of…