Some photos in the possession of The Wire indicate that the victims have been badly assaulted.

The warning letter comes days after J&K chief minister assured the media that his government would “not resort to highhandedness” against journalists.

Rehamatullah's detention under the same draconian law was quashed by the HC in 2017. His arrest comes soon after five trade union leaders of Chenab Valley were slapped with the PSA, allegedly for raising concerns over the increasing health risks and environmental degradation caused by the construction of power projects in the region.

The Wire's Jehangir Ali explains what this means for the erstwhile state and its implications on New Delhi.

A group of legislators from Kashmir-based parties (other than the ruling NC) also brought a third Article 370 resolution to the House on November 7.

'You were speaking a different language yesterday,' BJP leader Sunil Sharma told the Omar Abdullah-led J&K NC in the assembly.

As per constitutional practice, the words he read out were drafted by the popularly elected government and not him. At the same time, given how the Modi government has played fast and loose with constitutional propriety in J&K, Sinha could also have chosen to be difficult.

The Leader of the House and J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah termed the resolution an attention-grabbing, 'first-day, first-show' stint 'for the cameras'.

The body of a Srinagar shopkeeper which bore torture marks and had no firearm injuries, was found near a stream in Srinagar on June 1, 1996. Police claimed that Bhat was a militant and that he was killed in an encounter. His family has been struggling for justice since.

A senior police officer said that suspected militants opened gunfire at a vehicle of the Rashtriya Rifles that was part of a convoy moving in the area.

Narrating the incident to The Wire from his hospital bed, one of the workers said that his coworker, who was hit by a bullet in the abdomen , collapsed on top of him as he tried to crawl away to safety.

Unidentified gunmen opened fire at the base camp of APCO Infra, a Lucknow-based construction company which has worked on several key projects in Kashmir.  

The fatal shootout in Ganderbal district came two days after a bullet-riddled body of a migrant worker from Bihar was found in Shopian.

A number of Jammu-based social and political activists described the shortlisting of “outsiders” for jobs in Jammu as an assault on the livelihood of locals.

Political commentator Zafar Choudhary termed the NC’s decision to induct the two ministers from Jammu as an 'unprecedented outreach' to the Hindu-majority region.

J&K Pradesh Congress stayed away from the ceremony in protest against the Bhartiya Janta Party-led Union government's denial of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.

Ahead of the election, Abdullah had said the assembly would pass a resolution in its first sitting against the abrogation of J&K's special status.

Omar Abdullah is set to take oath as chief minister here, where five years ago dozens of political figures were brought and locked up.

The lieutenant governor will administer the oaths of office and secrecy to Abdullah and his council of ministers on Wednesday in Srinagar.

Beyond its stronghold, the party’s electoral arithmetic crumbled in the Pir Panjal region and Chenab valley of Jammu division.