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Six-year-old Muneefa Nazir, a Kashmiri girl whose right eye was hit by a marble ball shot allegedly by Indian paramilitary soldiers on August 12, 2019. This image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP/Mukhtar Khan)

3 J&K photojournalists win Pulitzer Prize for photography

Mukhtar Khan, Dar Yasin and Channi Anand cited for excellence in news photography under trying circumstances

5 May 2020 10:52 PM IST

Army personnel leave after an encounter with the militants in the Chanjmullah area of Handwara in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, Sunday, May 3, 2020. An Army Colonel and a Major were among five security personnel killed in the encounter with terrorists. (PTI Photo) (PTI03-05-2020_000190A)

Horror in Handwara again: 3 CRPF men killed in militant ambush

Another person too killed in the combat; local sources say it's a 14-year-old boy

5 May 2020 8:18 AM IST

Security forces during an encounter with the militants near the Chanjmullah area of Handwara in Kupwara district of North Kashmir. PTI photo

How the Handwara encounter unfolded

Col. Sharma was the commanding officer of 21 Rashtriya Rifles and had been decorated for gallantry twice in Kashmir

4 May 2020 10:10 AM IST

Villagers carry the mortal remains of a 72-year-old Covid-19 victim for burial in his ancestral graveyard in Baramulla district of North Kashmir on April 25, 2020. (PTI)

Corona toll in J&K rises to 6, while 40 new infections detected

Officials say surge in fresh cases due to increased testing

25 April 2020 10:56 PM IST

a man stands guard to restrict the entry of outsiders to their locality. Several localities in Srinagar have been declared red zones and severe containment measures have been taken up. (DC Photo: H U Naqash)

J&K records fifth death due to Covid-19

14 more coronavirus positives take the state's count to 328

17 April 2020 11:19 PM IST

Mehbooba Mufti has been in detention for more than eight months. (PTI)

Mehbooba Mufti shifted to her home; detention under PSA to continue

Former chief minister's residence designated as a subsidiary jail

7 April 2020 4:44 PM IST

A second militant was killed in the fire fight raging in Jammu and Kashmirs northern Bandipore district since Sunday morning. (Representational | PTI)

5 infiltrators, 3 Army jawans killed in ongoing gunfight in Keran area...

An Army jawan identified as Sepoy Satendra Kumar Tomar committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in...

5 April 2020 5:28 PM IST

Srinagar looks like a ghost town due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The central government amended the Jammu & Kashmirs domicile laws, a move that has been criticised by all political civil society groups in the Kashmir Valley. (DC Photo: H U Naqash)

Domicile law amended as Kashmir struggles to cope with Covid-19

Under new law any person who has lived 15 years in the UT will be treated as a domicile resident

2 April 2020 8:46 AM IST

A police personnel spray disinfectants inside a vehicle as a precautionary measure during the nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Jammu on Monday. PTI photo

Covid19 cases in J&K climb to 48, J&K hospitals in doldrums

In J&K, as many as 11, 644 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases are under surveillance, including 355...

31 March 2020 12:09 AM IST

Police and paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a road leading to the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital in Srinagar, where most patients with symptoms of COVID-19 are being kept in quarantine. (AP)

26 Covid-19 suspects flee after quarantine riot at Srinagar hospital

They are retraced and brought back but one doctor loses her job for negligence

28 March 2020 11:46 PM IST

A man walks under a umbrella near the main gate of historical Jamia Masjid locked for the congregational Friday prayers, during 3rd day of the 21-day nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic, in Srinagar. PTI photo

J&K Friday congregations put off; Four more covid19 cases reported

In most cases the custodians of mosques voluntarily called off the weekly gatherings

27 March 2020 10:46 PM IST

File photo of health staff carrying out a door-to-door campaign in Khanyar locality of Srinagar. The first patient to test positive for the coronavirus was from this locality. On Thursday a person who had flown on the same flight as the first positive also tested positive for coronavirus. (DC Photo by H U Naqash)

Places of worship shut after first Covid-19 casualty in Kashmir

Authorities probing why coronavirus victim was allowed to leave hospital despite having symptoms

27 March 2020 12:07 AM IST