Jammu And Kashmir

A municipal worker sprays a disinfectant to prevent the spread of virus amid national lockdown in Jammu. PTI photo

2 attendees of Tablighi Jamaat booked for concealing travel history

The duo had recently returned to Ramanagar with a travel history of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, before attending the event at Nizammudin

09 Apr 2020 1:27 PM

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

07 Apr 2020 4:44 PM

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

An Army jawan identified as Sepoy Satendra Kumar Tomar committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in J&K’s Bandipore

05 Apr 2020 5:28 PM

Govt withdraws privileges given to former J&K chief ministers

The move comes months after J&K Law Commission had recommended repeal of the legal provisions providing facilities to former chief ministers

02 Apr 2020 12:21 PM

Srinagar looks like a ghost town due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The central government amended the Jammu & Kashmir's 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

02 Apr 2020 8:46 AM

A man waves from inside a bus after he is discharged from a makeshift coronavirus quarantine facility set up at a hotel requisitioned for the purpose by the authorities in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. Hundreds of local residents who were on their return from outside Kashmir were quarantined in such facilities. The authorities say that most of the 49 persons tested positive a have history of travel to various parts of India and abroad. (DC Photo: H U Naqash)

J&K takes up 'robust' contact tracing in Valley

About 2000 contacts of Covid-19 positive persons have been identified

02 Apr 2020 8:23 AM

Health workers spray disinfectant in a locality of Srinagar. (AA Photo by H U Naqash)

Why are so many fleeing quarantine in Kashmir?

Photographs of street dogs in the corridors of major hospitals put the focus on hospital conditions

31 Mar 2020 12:22 AM

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 in quarantine

31 Mar 2020 12:09 AM

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 Mar 2020 11:46 PM

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 Mar 2020 10:46 PM

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 Mar 2020 12:07 AM

Deserted view of Khanyar neighbourhood during lockdown in Srinagar. PTI photo

Kashmir records first coronavirus death

A 65-year-old man who had been with a Tablighi Jamaat outside Valley dies in a Srinagar hospital days after testing positive

26 Mar 2020 3:20 PM

A preventive lockdown continued in Srinagar for the seventh straight day on Wednesday to arrest the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 in Jammu & Kashmir. (Photo: H U Naqash)

Panicky Kashmiris rush to hospitals after COVID-19 cases swell in J&K

With 4 more testing positive for the deadly virus, authorities decide to get tough with lockdown violators

25 Mar 2020 10:37 PM

Former Jammu&Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was released from detention on March 24, 2002. (AA Photo: Habib Naqash)

Omar Abdullah: It's callous and cruel to keep Mehbooba Mufti in detention

Former J&K chief minister says there was never any justification to detain her in the first place

25 Mar 2020 2:03 PM

Omar Abdullah speaking to reporters after his release from detention. (AA Photo: Habib Naqash)

Far & Near: Kashmir after the Abdullahs' release

If the NC and PDP now show common purpose, efforts by the Centre to degrade the Abdullahs' party is likely to receive a setback

25 Mar 2020 10:54 AM

Omar Abdullah released

His release order was issued after charges under the Public Safety Act (PSA), slapped on him in February, were revoked

24 Mar 2020 11:56 AM

National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah with his wife Mollie Abdullah (left) and daughter Safiya Abdullah (right) speaks to the media after his release from detention on March 13, 2020. (PTI)

Farooq’s Abdullah's silence is a statement

People in Kashmir have grown sceptical about Dr Abdullah’s next move

16 Mar 2020 4:39 PM

AA EDIT: Now that Farooq Abdullah is 'free', will Kashmir be back to normal soon?

Dr Abdullah’s release yields the surmise that the Narendra Modi government has just had an attack of realism

16 Mar 2020 12:15 PM

Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a meeting with a delegation from J&K’s newly formed Apni Party led by Altaf Bukhari, in New Delhi, on Sunday. PTI

Amit Shah assures Bukhari of restoring J&K statehood

Shah assured the delegation that J&K will have a better domicile policy than other states in the country

15 Mar 2020 7:21 PM

PSA against Farooq Abdullah revoked, to be released soon

Abdullah was under preventive detention since August 5 last year, the day Centre abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir

13 Mar 2020 3:56 PM