Suspected militants Wednesday hurled a hand grenade ata police checkpoint at Pattan in north Kashmir's Baramulla district. Reports said that suspected militants were travelling in a passenger vehicle when they hurled a grenade towards a police party, manning a checkpoint at...More

Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for shutdown on Thursday against the “atrocities being inflicted on people including gruesome killings, arbitrary arrests and PSAs, destruction of homes, harassment of students attack on journalists and all other measures of...More

Students of Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) Awantipora held a protest on Tuesday against the killing of a civilian in Fateh Kadal Srinagar. A student from the Varsity informed Rising Kashmir that class work was suspended in IUST after news spread about ki...More

Kashmir Press Photographers Association (KPPA) Wednesday condemned the thrashing of several photojournalists by Police while they were discharging their professional duties, covering a gunfight at Fateh Kadal in Srinagar downtown. KPPA spokesman said that two senior Police o...More

Saudi Arabia and Turkey should "reveal everything" they know about Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance, a top UN human rights official has said while demanding a "thorough and impartial" probe into the whereabouts of the dissident Saudi journalist. Khashoggi, 60, is feared to ha...More

The Palestinians have won backing to lead the biggest bloc of developing countries at the United Nations, raising their profile at the world body despite opposition from the United States. The General Assembly on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to grant the observer-state of Pa...More

The militants who were killed in a gunfight at Fatehkadal area of Srinagar on Wednesday have been identified as Mehrajuddin Bangroo and Fahad Waza of Downtown. Police said three militants and a policeman were killed in a gunfight at Syed Ali Akar in Fatehkadal area of the ci...More

A Pakistani serial killer was executed at a prison here on Wednesday after a court dismissed a petition for his public hanging filed by the father of a seven-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered by the convict. Imran Ali, who was convicted for the rape and murder of the...More

Kashmir Press Club (KPC) Wednesday condemned the thrashing of journalists by policemen at a gunfight site in Fatehkadal area of Srinagar. “Many reporters and photo journalists were beaten up while they wereperformingtheir professional duties this morning,” KPC sa...More

Clashes between youth and government forces erupted at Downtown areas of Srinagar city after the killing of three militants in a gunfight at Fatehkdal area. Reports said clashes erupted at Zaldagar, Fatehkadal and Karfali Mohallah areas of downtown. Witnesses said youths too...More

University of Kashmir has suspension of class work on Wednesday as a precautionary measure to prevent law and order problem in the aftermath of gunfight between militants and government forces at Fatehkadal area of Srinagar. A university Spokesperson said "the class work in...More

In the aftermath of gunfight between militants and government forces at Fatehkadal, the district administration ordered the closure of all schools and colleges in Srinagar on Wednesday. Officials said the decision to close educational institutions was taken as a precautionar...More

Three militants and a policeman were killed in a gunfight at Fatehkadal area of Srinagar city on Wednesday. Sources said special operations group of police and paramilitary CRPF cordoned off the Fatehkadal area in the wee hours following intelligence inputs about the presen...More