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A fresh batch of 1,974 pilgrims, including 363 women, left Jammu city in a convoy of 85 vehicles early Sunday for the twin base camps in Kashmir to perform the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, officials said.

Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai on Wednesday tabled a Bill in the Lok Sabha to nominate two members from the “Kashmiri Migrants” community, who “migrated” when militancy was at its peak in the 1989-90, as members of the Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.…

Border Security Force (BSF) personnel foiled a drug smuggling attempt and neutralised a suspected Pakistani smuggler in the Ramgarh area in the Samba sector of Jammu on Monday. Read further on Dynamite News:

Child’s death follows hunger strike at Jammu & Kashmir jail amid increasing hostility towards 40,000 refugees ahead of elections

The BSF thwarted a major narcotic smuggling bid along the International Border (IB) as it shot dead a Pakistani intruder in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, a BSF spokesperson said on July 25.

The L-G administration, for the first time in over three decades, is mulling over lifting the ban on a set of Muharram processions in Kashmir’s Guru Bazar-Dal Gate route on 8th and 10th of the Islamic month.  

Amid tight security, the 22nd batch of 3,898 pilgrims left the base camp for the Amarnath Yatra on July 24 for the cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas

Cold-water trout is the most popular fish on Jammu and Kashmir’s platter .The past decade has witnessed a sea change in trout farming since the J&K government decided to allow the entry of private players

Truck driver Doreswamy, 39, from Dharmapuri, TN, was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Devanahalli, Karnataka. He had come from Jammu & Kashmir to Chikkaballapur to transport potatoes. Another speeding truck mowed him down while he was trying to cross the road. Police are trying to identify the vehicle involved.