Former chief minister and opposition National Conference (NC) working president, Omar Abdullah Wednesdayowned a political activist after the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and opposition Congress disowned him. The Congress activist succumbed to injuries Wednesday afte...More

Mushtaq Ahmad Peer, the former chairman of the Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) who allegedly engineered the Common Entrance Test (CET) 2012 scam has been sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined Rs 1 crore while as the broker Sajad Ahmad Bhat has als...More

A Special Court in Jodhpur on Wednesday convicted self-styled godman Asaram for raping a minor girl at his ashram in Rajasthan in 2013 and sentenced him to a prison term for life till his natural death. The judgment was pronounced by Special Judge for Scheduled Caste and Sch...More

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti expressed grief over the killing ofCongress worker namely Ghulam Nabi Patel at Rajpora Chowk whose succumbed to his injuries after he was shot by an unknown gunman on Tuesday. she said that Killings of innocent will not help so...More

Congress activist succumbs to his injuries after he was shot by an unknown gunman at Rajpora Chowk in south Kashmir's Pulwama districton Wednesday. Official sources said that the gunmen fired upon theCongress worker namely Ghulam Nabi Patel at Rajpora Chowk. Patil, a res...More

President J&K Peoples Democratic Party (JKPDP) Ms. Mehbooba Mufti has nominated Ch Ab Hamid as Chief Coordinatorof the party for Jammu Province.This was disclosed here by party vice-president Mohammad Sartaj Madni in a statement issued today. (KNS)More

Minor clashes broke out between students and government forces at Sopore town in North Kashmir's Baramulla districton Wednesdaymorning. An eyewitness informed Rising Kashmir that students of Government Boys Degree College Sopore hurled rocks at already deployed forces outsid...More

Russia said on Wednesday that it expected to sign a deal with India this year on the sale of S-400 surface-to-air missiles, theInterfaxnews agency reported. It cited Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation as saying that all the technical aspects of the c...More

Stomach cancer is among the ten most common cancers worldwide. In India, it stands as the third most common cancer in men as well as women. Therefore, it is crucial that more and more people are aware of stomach cancer and its symptoms, especially now more than ever, as new ...More

A special Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe court on Wednesday convicted self-styled godman Asaram Bapu in a 2013 minor girl rape case. According to police sources, co-accused Shiva and Shilpi have been convicted and Sharad and Prakash have been acquitted. Security outside Jod...More

Rasana rape-n-murder case accused juvenile was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kathua today. According to Rising Kashmir correspondent in Kathua, he was brought to the CJM Kathua alone by the police with heavy deployment of police force. The juvenile was alon...More

Hundreds of people, especially farmers, Wednesday held a demonstration over the lack of water to irrigate 10,000 acres of land in Bandipora. Rising Kashmir has learnt that the people from Qazipora, Watapora, Kaloosa and Nathpora areas of the district assembled near SP Office...More

Hundreds of people, especially farmers, Wednesday held a demonstration over the lack of water to irrigate 10,000 acres of land in Bandipora. Rising Kashmir has learnt that the people from Qazipora, Watapora, Kaloosa and Nathpora areas of the district assembled near SP Office...More

Pakistan's well-known actress, playwright, and women activist Madeeha Gauhar passed away in Lahore this morning. She was 61. Founder of Ajoka Theatre, Gauhar was battling with cancer for the last three years. A brave woman, she was known for her commitment to theatre for s...More

Thousands of people, including women and children, attended the funeral prayers of two slain militants in Tral area of district Pulwama on Wednesday. Rising Kashmir has learnt that multiple-funerals were held for both the slain militants, who have been identified as Ishfaq A...More

Israel's Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday that Israel will strike back if Syria uses Russian S-300 missiles against its air force. "There has to be one thing clear: if someone shoots at our planes, we'll destroy them," Lieberman told the Hebrew-language Ynet...More

Ten persons were killed and scores injured as an oil well in Indonesia's Aceh caught fire, said National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) on Wednesday. The incident occurred in the north of Sumatra Island, NDMA spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told Xinhua news agency. An oil ...More

A policeman has gone missing along with a service rifle from police post-Pakherpora in central Kashmir's Budgam district on Tuesday evening. Sourcessaid that a Jammu and Kashmir police constable who was posted as a constable in Police Post Pakherpora has been missing and has...More