Topic: Jammu and Kashmir
Suspected militants have shot dead three people in Indian-administered Kashmir, including a mother and her teenage daughter, a police statement said Monday. It said four masked militants barged into a house in southern Kulgam district late Sunday evening and shot dead a ...
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India re-imposed a curfew in Kashmir on Saturday and deployed thousands of police, officials said, a day after four protesters died in fresh anti-India demonstrations that have so far killed 55 people. The two-month-old protests, the angriest since ...
The fasting month of Ramadan looks set to be one of curfews, protests and hardship for Muslims in Indian Kashmir, which is experiencing a wave of popular unrest directed against Indian rule. For two months, violent demonstrations have rocked the troubled Himalayan ...
Three policemen and a woman were killed in Indian Kashmir, police said Wednesday, as the restive mainly Muslim region prepared for the fasting month of Ramadan. The woman was killed and eight other people injured when their bus was caught in cross-fire ...
Thousands of Hindu pilgrims are trekking along slippery trails to reach a shrine high in the mountains of Indian Kashmir despite violent protests in the Muslim-majority region. Strikes and demonstrations have paralysed the Kashmir valley over the killing of 11 civilians in ...
Tears flowed as thousands of Hindus who fled a Muslim insurgency in Indian Kashmir Saturday prayed at a revered shrine many had not visited for decades, as troops kept a tight vigil. An estimated 200,000 Hindus fled the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, where ...
Foreign tourists have been banned from entering a Muslim shrine in Indian-ruled Kashmir due to increasing curiosity about a theory that it contains the body of Jesus Christ. The shrine in Srinagar city is the focus of speculation that Christ survived the ...
At least a dozen people were injured when police used batons Monday to break up religious processions by Shiite Muslims who defied a ban and strict security lockdown in Indian Kashmir. Over three dozen others were also arrested for violating the ban ...
Some 40 people were injured when police fired teargas and used batons Saturday to break up banned religious processions by Shiite Muslims in restive Indian Kashmir. Forty people were also arrested for violating the ban on holding the processions, said police in ...
Indian Kashmir's tiny Christian community Friday prayed for the return of peace to the revolt-hit region as Muslims joined them in festivities. Overnight the region's tourism minister Rigzin Jora joined scores of Christians in a mass at a church in the ski ...