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Former chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, has been released by India. She was detained on 5 August last year, when the government stripped the region of its partial autonomy. She was in house arrest under a controversial law that allows detention without charge for up to two years.
2020-10-14

Indian authorities issue evacuation orders for thousands of people, including tourists and Hindu pilgrims heading to the Amarnath Temple for yatra (which has been cancelled) to immediately leave Jammu and Kashmir because of security alerts about possible militant attacks. Also, the pilgrimage to Machel Mata for yatra, which also began on 1 July, has been suspended.
2019-08-3

At least 22 people are killed and 14 injured after a minibus falls into a gorge on the Srinagar Jammu National Highway in India's Jammu and Kashmir state.
2018-10-6

Indian journalist Shujaat Bukhari is shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. One of his bodyguards was also killed in the shooting.
2018-06-14

A group of Islamic terrorists exchange fire with Indian Armed Forces troops for the second consecutive day in Pampore, Jammu and Kashmir, India. At least five soldiers and one civilian have been killed.
2016-02-21

At least 15 people are dead and 20 others injured after a bus falls into a gorge in the Udhampur district in India's Jammu and Kashmir state.
2015-05-11

Terrorists attack a police station in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, killing six people, before attacking an Army camp.
2013-09-26

A Dutch tourist, Richard de Wit, allegedly confesses to killing Sarah Groves, a British fitness instructor from Guernsey, who was found dead with multiple stab wounds on a houseboat in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
2013-04-8

400 people are trapped by landslides in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
2012-06-9

India plans to withdraw 10,000 troops from Jammu and Kashmir this year and renew peace talks.
2011-02-13