A total of 4,97,238 domicile certificates were issued in Kashmir division and 13,35,643 in Jammu division.

Ministry of Defence reports constant ceasefire violations by the Pakistani Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.

The sarpanch, identified as Sajad Ahamd Khanday, was killed by suspected militants outside his residence at vessu Qazigund in Kulgam district of South Kashmir.

Taking note of a media report which quoted J&K LG on the delimitation exercise in J&K and holding of polls, the EC in a statement said it 'takes exception to such statements and would like to state that in the Constitutional scheme of things, the timings etc. of elections is the sole remit of Election Commission of India.'

The Party spokesman said that the National Conference has taken note of and expresses strong objection to Chattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel’s statement.

The boy can be seen sitting on the dead body of his grandfather who was killed in the crossfire during a militant attack in J&K's Sopore.

In a short audio, Geelani said, 'keeping in view the present situation in the Hurriyat Conference, I announce to part ways from the Hurriyat forum. The decision has been conveyed to all the constituents of Hurriyat through an official letter.'

A group of Hindu Americans have reached out to the Biden campaign expressing their resentment to the language used against India and have urged them to reconsider their views.

The 8x8 drone (from blade to blade) was spotted hovering in the skies by a BSF party on patrol duty at Rathua village in the vicinity of Border Out Post (BOP) Pansar.

District Magistrate of Jammu has ordered a magisterial probe into the entire incident.

A CRPF spokesperson told Outlook that the pledge taken by a paramilitary unit to boycott the Chinese products was an emotional response of an individual unit to the prevailing situation along the LAC in Ladakh region.

The submissions were made in response to a plea filed by Foundation for Media Professionals seeking restoration of 4G internet services in the union territory in view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic.

The declared containment or 'red' zones across the Valley have been sealed to ensure strict adherence to the standard operating procedure, the officials said.

The party gave figures of the militants killed in Jammu and Kashmir, stating that the “professionalism and the daunting spirit of the security forces can be gauged from the fact that in the current month, more than 25 militants have been killed by them so far."

With the increase in testing, the number of COVID-19 positive cases also spiked as 40 new patients -- all from Kashmir -- tested positive for the infected on Saturday alone. The government attributed the rise in positive cases to the increase in testing in the region.

Jammu and Kashmir has also re-employed 126 retired doctors, de-contamination tunnels are being set up in hospitals and walk-in sample collection booths have been set up, the statement said, adding that all frontier personnel have been provided with masks and safety kits.

Doctors in the Valley have advised the people to unlearn the "learned behaviour" while observing the nationwide lockdown, announced two weeks ago to contain the spread Novel Coronavirus.

There are almost 500 Kashmiri students stranded in Bangladesh right now.

The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus worldwide has exceeded 372,000, over 16,000 have died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation report.

Several other senior leaders were also put under house arrest and the government over the past few months has released them in phases.