The Latest Breaking News from Kashmir

From the Pathankot highway on the outskirts of Jammu, the sight of shipping containers and floodlights suggests you’re looking at an industrial complex. Peer a little closer, though, and you realise you’re looking at a camp of enthusiastic Congress workers who have walked 128 days to get here.

Earlier this week, Pakistan’s PM called for talks with India to discuss ‘burning issues such as Kashmir’.

Freezing cold conditions intensified in Kashmir valley as the tourist resort of Pahalgam experienced the coldest night of the season at minus 11.8 degree Celsius on Tuesday. Read on for details:

Minimum temperature further dropped in Kashmir valley as ski resort of Gulmarg experienced season’s coldest night at minus 12.0 degree Celsius on Monday. Read on for details:

For as little as $35, Indian women and girls are being sold by traffickers and forced into marriages against their will.

India is reviving a network of thousands of village guards in Jammu and Kashmir, including arming some with automatic rifles, after a militant attack in the disputed region killed seven civilians earlier in January, a police official said.

For the first time in her life, Asha, a street cleaner in the Indian city of Jammu, will be allowed to vote in upcoming local elections. And she's in no doubt who will get her ballot.

With the Rashtrapati Bhavan to their south, and the Nehru memorial to the north, the three statues at Delhi’s Teen Murti Circle have long stood witness to India’s tryst with destiny: from a brutal repression of the freedom struggle to the fall of the British Empire, and Independence.

It is believed that Geographical Indication (GI) will also have the potential to deliver wider benefits to rural areas by strengthening historical and cultural links between place and people. Read on for details: