A police officer was killed and another wounded critically when militants fired at them while they were on duty in the capital, Srinagar, Sunday, authorities said.
An Indian army officer, a naval commando and two top militant commanders were among eight people killed in two extended gunfights in Indian-administered Kashmir, a senior police officer said Wednesday.
At least 20 people were killed and 26 others injured, 21 of them seriously, Monday afternoon in a road accident in the mountainous Doda district of Indian administered Kashmir.
A pair of attacks Saturday that killed two policemen and critically injured a third shattered a recent lull in violence in the summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state.
A massive rescue effort was underway Wednesday after a bus crashed in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 25 people and wounding 43 others.
Indian authorities have suspended four police officers and an official of the forensic science laboratory for destroying evidence and "dereliction of duty" in the alleged rape and killing of two Muslim women.
Two soldiers, including an officer, and three militants have been killed in a fierce gunfight in the Kupwara district on the north Kashmir frontier, the Indian army said Monday.
More than half of the voters in the eight states participating Thursday in India's general elections cast ballots for a new federal government, election officials said.
Indians were voting Thursday in the fourth phase of a marathon general election to choose a new federal government.
Shops and businesses sat idle on Wednesday, while paramilitary forces patrolled the empty streets of Srinagar a day before the latest round of Indian parliamentary elections.
A police officer was killed and another wounded critically when militants fired at them while they were on duty in the capital, Srinagar, Sunday, authorities said.
An Indian army officer, a naval commando and two top militant commanders were among eight people killed in two extended gunfights in Indian-administered Kashmir, a senior police officer said Wednesday.
At least 20 people were killed and 26 others injured, 21 of them seriously, Monday afternoon in a road accident in the mountainous Doda district of Indian administered Kashmir.
A pair of attacks Saturday that killed two policemen and critically injured a third shattered a recent lull in violence in the summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state.
A massive rescue effort was underway Wednesday after a bus crashed in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 25 people and wounding 43 others.
Indian authorities have suspended four police officers and an official of the forensic science laboratory for destroying evidence and "dereliction of duty" in the alleged rape and killing of two Muslim women.
Two soldiers, including an officer, and three militants have been killed in a fierce gunfight in the Kupwara district on the north Kashmir frontier, the Indian army said Monday.
More than half of the voters in the eight states participating Thursday in India's general elections cast ballots for a new federal government, election officials said.
Indians were voting Thursday in the fourth phase of a marathon general election to choose a new federal government.
Shops and businesses sat idle on Wednesday, while paramilitary forces patrolled the empty streets of Srinagar a day before the latest round of Indian parliamentary elections.
A passenger bus tumbled into the Chenab River in Indian-administered Kashmir's hilly Kishtwar district Monday morning, killing at least 29 people and injuring nine others, authorities said.
The toll in the raging gunfights between the militants and Indian army in the Indian administered Kashmir rose to 19 Monday with the killing of four more Indian army troopers and five militants.
The Indian army has found an officer and two troopers accountable for "lapses" in the killing of two youths in Indian administered Kashmir.
Protesters -- angry about the killing of a carpenter, allegedly by Indian paramilitary forces -- on Thursday stormed the streets of a village near Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir.
Indian police and paramilitary troops placed a large section of Srinagar under strict restrictions Saturday in hopes of thwarting further violence in the summer capital city of Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The Srinagar airport opened Saturday to international traffic, part of an effort to encourage tourism and trade.
The heavily guarded, seventh and final phase of voting for a state assembly ended Wednesday in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. Results are expected Sunday.
Separatist militants ambushed an Indian paramilitary patrol in Indian-administered Kashmir Monday afternoon, killing two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers, police said.
Anti-election demonstrators threw stones at two polling stations and clashed with Indian security forces Sunday as voters stood in long lines in Indian-controlled Kashmir to cast ballots in the second stage of state elections.
Indian paramilitary forces gunned down two youths in Kashmir on Saturday, one of them a high school student apparently taking part in an anti-India demonstration, authorities said.
Hundreds of police and paramilitary troops enforced tight security in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday to prevent separatists from staging a rally amid renewed violence in the divided Himalayan region.
Shops, businesses and schools were shut in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Saturday to protest a visit by the Indian prime minister
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the first intra-Kashmir train Saturday, even as police and paramilitary enforced an undeclared curfew in parts of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Indian security forces sealed off Srinagar's center Monday to thwart a rally by separatists and tighten a round-the-clock curfew now in its second day in the violence-torn Himalayan region.
A strict Indian-imposed curfew continued for the third day in Kashmir on Tuesday, with the death toll for the past 24 hours reaching five after clashes between Indian security forces and pro-separatist protesters defying the curfew.
Once again, the hatred between Muslims and Hindus in the state of Kashmir and Jammu has ignited a crisis
A dispute over 99 acres of land for a Hindu shrine has prompted protests by hundreds of thousands, reviving the separatist movement and threatening to further undermine the India-Pakistan peace process
Violent protests continued across Kashmir Wednesday, as the death toll from the past two days of demonstrations rose to 20, a senior police official said.
A mother and her four children were killed Thursday in a grenade attack on a bus stand in Srinagar, police said.
Five people, including three children, were killed Thursday in a grenade attack on a bus stand in Srinagar, police said.
Two people were killed and four wounded Sunday when militants hurled a grenade at a crowd in a popular mountainous resort in Kashmir, police said.
A blast from an improvised explosive device Saturday killed nine Indian soldiers and wounded 14 traveling in an army convoy, an army spokesman said.
Security concerns and sympathy toward Tibetans prompted a Buddhist temple in Nagano, Japan, to withdraw from participation in the Olympic torch relay next week, a temple official said on Friday.
The Olympic flame arrived in Bangkok early Friday from New Delhi, India, where extraordinary security measures kept thousands of anti-Chinese protesters mostly at bay during a shortened relay on Thursday.
A gun battle between security forces and militants fighting against Indian rule in the Himalayan territory of Kashmir left five people dead and two others injured Sunday.
Six family members were buried alive after an avalanche crashed into their house in a remote village in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said Friday.
Two Indian soldiers were killed and three others were wounded Friday when suspected militants threw a grenade into the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Mehama, police said.
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Indian security forces Monday afternoon joined the state wildlife department's hunt for a leopard that has killed three children in less than a week in Chattergul village, nestled in the foothills of Pir Panjal Himalayan mountain range in south Kashmir.
A senior Indian army officer was killed on Saturday during a search for militants in a Kashmiri village, police told CNN.
Thousands of Kashmiris thronged to the funeral Tuesday of a top Islamic militant leader killed in a fierce pre-dawn gunbattle in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
A 22-hour standoff between Indian security forces and a group of heavily-armed militants ended Thursday morning, leaving a total of seven police officers, one civilian and two militants dead, police said.
Kashmiri militants Saturday lobbed a powerful hand grenade at an opposition legislator, wounding her and killing five others -- including her colleague -- police officials said.
Suspected militants opened fired on a police station in central Srinagar early Thursday, killing two officers, police have said.
A shootout between suspected militants and security forces in a northern Kashmiri village has left five people dead, a police official said.
One person was killed and eight others wounded when militants in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar lobbed a grenade at a paramilitary police vehicle, police said.
Two attackers who targeted a cinema hall being used as a paramilitary barracks were killed Wednesday, along with three paramilitary soldiers, after a brief standoff and firefight, authorities said.
Three people were killed and 44 injured, 16 critically, when a car bomb detonated in Srinagar near the passing motorcade of Usman Majeed, a former deputy minister for planning, authorities said.
A car packed with explosives has detonated at a police checkpoint in Srinagar, killing five people -- including the bomber -- and wounding 14, one critically, just hours before the new chief minister of Indian-controlled Kashmir was to be sworn in, authorities said.
Kashmir's junior education minister was killed after two attackers infiltrated his home in the high-security area of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
Relief workers trying to help the millions of people hit by Pakistan's worst-ever earthquake are working around treacherous mountainous terrain to get to them.
Five Indian soldiers were killed Saturday when their convoy was ambushed in the southern part of the disputed territory of Kashmir, police said.
A grenade has exploded at a Protestant missionary school in central Srinagar, killing two women and wounding 45 other, police say.
A powerful car bomb targeting a paramilitary convoy in Srinagar's uptown Jawahar Nagar neighborhood exploded Wednesday morning, killing at least one person and wounding more than 40 others, Jammu and Kashmir state police said.
The first bus service across disputed Kashmir in nearly 60 years came under fire minutes after it started its journey, according to local media.
One of a handful of militants who attacked a tourist reception center in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar has been shot dead by police.
Two gunmen stormed government offices in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, sparking a three-hour siege Thursday that resulted in seven deaths -- including the two gunmen -- police officials said.
Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan stare each other down in the disputed region of Kashmir. Both sides say Kashmir is theirs, and they have fought two wars over it.
A paramilitary officer and a local policeman were killed Friday when suspected Islamic militants stormed Kashmir government offices, setting a building on fire and briefly taking more than 50 workers hostage.
A roadside bomb has killed 11 people, including nine Indian soldiers, in the Indian-ruled portion of Kashmir, in one of the deadliest attacks there in recent months.
A constable in India's Central Reserve Police Force opened fire at a paramilitary headquarters in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing seven officers before he was shot to death, police say.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz says he is optimistic about achieving sustainable peace with India but has stressed that settling the thorny issue of Kashmir remains the key.
Indian soldiers traded gunfire with militants in the Kashmiri summer capital of Srinagar as New Delhi started withdrawing some troops from the highly militarized frontier with Pakistan.
Nine Indian policemen have been killed and eight wounded in an 11-hour overnight gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said.
An overnight gunbattle between suspected Kashmiri militants and Indian paramilitary forces in central Srinagar has left seven people dead -- two militants and five troops, police in Indian-administered Kashmir said Wednesday.
The deputy chief minister of Indian-controlled Kashmir has narrowly escaped the second apparent attempt on his life in a week.
The bodies of an Indian railway engineer and his brother, kidnapped two days ago, have been recovered in a corn field in the Indian part of Kashmir, local police say.
At least 29 people were killed and seven others wounded when Kashmiri militants bombed an Indian Border Security Force convoy in Kashmir, police in Jammu and Kashmir state told CNN.
A string of attacks, some at political targets, in Indian-controlled Kashmir have killed two civilians and left more than 70 others injured, including several police.
Indian police say they are taking no chances in Monday's round of parliamentary elections, a day after violence hit the disputed state of Kashmir.
Three people were killed and dozens wounded Sunday in a pair of grenade attacks in Jammu and Kashmir state as the restive province prepares to vote in India's national elections, state police officials said.
A bomb planted in a garbage truck detonated in central Srinagar Thursday, killing two people and wounding a third, police said.
Twenty-six Indian police died Thursday when their convoy drove over a series of land mines, and nine people were killed in the Kashmiri town of Uri when an explosion went off at an election rally, Indian officials said.
A grenade has exploded in a busy market in the town of Pulwama in Indian-Kashmir, wounding 57 people, including a policeman, police sources told CNN.
A roadside bomb has ripped through a bus carrying Indian army forces in Kashmir, killing three and wounding 39 others -- seven critically -- police say.
A top commander of the Kashmiri extremist group Hizbul Mujahideen was killed along with two other militants in an operation launched by the Indian Army, police sources told CNN.
Violence in Kashmir Friday has killed more than a dozen people -- seven Kashmiri militants and six Indian soldiers -- Indian defense sources said.
A Kashmiri boy was killed Monday and four other children were critically wounded when a hand grenade they found in a field exploded as they were playing with it, police said.
A senior police official was gunned down Mondayoutside a mosque in central Srinagar, following morning prayers, police said.
Moderate Kashmiri separatists have accepted an invitation from Indian for talks on the disputed region and have nominated five senior leaders to take part in them, a separatist leader has said.
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