The Latest Breaking News from Kashmir

Learn about the upcoming regional election in Indian-controlled Kashmir and its implications on the region's governance and status.

India will hold the first legislative elections in a decade in the restive region of Kashmir, which lost its semi-autonomy and came under direct federal rule in 2019.

The meaning of assembly elections was already turned on its head before the announcement for polls in Jammu and Kashmir. 

Nearly nine million people are registered to vote in the polls from September 18 for the 90-member legislative assembly.

India's decision to conduct local elections in Kashmir aims to restore normalcy and empower locals in the conflict-ridden region, with implications for sta...

Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir will hold local elections for the first time in a decade, the head of the electoral commission said Friday, after polls were stalled in the disputed region following New Delhi's imposition of direct rule in 2019.

India has announced three-phased assembly elections in disputed Kashmir that will start on Sept. 18, the first since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 stripped the Muslim-majority region of its semi-autonomy and downgraded it to a federally controlled territory

In the remote Himalayas, tens of thousands of Indian soldiers maintain a tight vigil along the highly militarized Line of Control that divides Kashmir region between India and Pakistan. The terrain is tough and the weather is harsh as the soldiers go through counterinsurgency drills and tactical exercises following months…

Hundreds of angry people have taken to the streets in Pakistan-administered Kashmir to mark the fifth anniversary of India’s decision to strip the disputed region of its semi-autonomy and take direct control of it

For decades, Jammu was mostly peaceful, even amid clashes in other parts of Indian-administered Kashmir. Not anymore.

Kashmir has been reeling under intense heat wave with several places in the valley recording their highest July temperature in 25 years on Sunday. Read further on Dynamite News: