Indian-administered Kashmir elected Tuesday its first government since the restive Himalayan territory was brought under New Delhi's direct control, as voters backed opposition parties to lead its regional assembly. Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government cancelled Kashmir's partial autonomy to control its affairs in 2019, a sudden decision accompanied by
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Kashmir residents vote in polls under heavy security
Under elaborate security, residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir began casting their votes Wednesday in the second phase of a staggered election for a local government. About 2.6 million residents are eligible to elect 26 of the 239 candidates in six districts, including in the biggest regional main city of Srinagar, where voters
Two suspected Kashmir rebels killed in clash
Two suspected rebels were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during a firefight with soldiers, police said Tuesday, at a time when campaigning for national elections is underway in the disputed territory. Scores of soldiers besieged a residential area in southern Kulgam district, some 70 kilometres (43 miles) from Kashmir's biggest city Srinagar,
At least 30 people killed in bus crash in held Kashmir
At least 30 people were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir on Wednesday when a passenger bus skidded off a mountainous road and plunged into a deep gorge, police said. The accident took place on a remote road in the Doda area, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) southeast of the region's capital Srinagar. "Thirty
No breakthrough in India-Pakistan ties
In December 2021, Pakistan’s first-ever National Security Policy (NSP) understandably hit the headlines in India, which was mentioned more than any other nation in it—at least 16 times. The 62-page document prepared after what was described as a seven-year ‘strategic thought’ referred to a policy of peace at home and abroad.
Why Pakistan plans an invasion of Kashmir in October 1947?
Each year the people of Jammu and Kashmir, both in Indian Administered Kashmir and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir observe ‘Black Day’ on different dates across the most troubled border. The first Black Day was observed on October 22, 1947, when Brigadier Akbar Khan of the newly-born Pakistan Army was entrusted with a