Authorities on Saturday issued advisories amid a weather forecast of intense rainfall with possibility of cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides in high altitude areas of Jammu and Kashmir during the next four days.

The Jammu and Kashmir government has taken over the management of 215 schools linked to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami.

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has ordered the termination of these employees facing charges of arms smuggling and links with the banned terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Security forces have captured a pigeon carrying a threat note to blow up the Jammu railway station in the border area of RS Pura in Jammu district, prompting police to beef up security in the region, officials said.

A court in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district has sentenced a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist to life imprisonment, 32 years after he killed a civilian in the district on December 7, 1993.

A bus carrying pilgrims to the cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi skidded off the Jammu-Pathankot highway and fell into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Thursday, leaving one person dead and 39 others injured, officials said.

Six policemen, including a Deputy Superintendent, have been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the alleged brutal torture of a policeman during custody in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district in 2023, official sources said.

The CBI on Wednesday arrested eight police personnel, including at least two officers, in connection with the alleged custodial torture of a cop, following orders from the Supreme Court last month, officials said here on Wednesday.

Calls have been made to boycott the event in the wake of the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which claimed the lives of several tourists.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday shared a Harry Potter-inspired meme amid renewed speculation over the status of the region's statehood.

Home Minister Amit Shah introduced three bills - The Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill 2025, the Constitution (One Hundred And Thirtieth Amendment) Bill 2025, and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill 2025.

Massive, sudden downpours of rain known as cloudbursts have struck India and Pakistan during this monsoon season, killing hundreds of people in the flash floods and landslides they have triggered.

Five days after a cloudburst hit the Machail Mata yatra base camp in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, killing at least 64 people, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said finding the 70 missing people alive is next to impossible.

When massive boulders, giant conifer trees from mountains came crashing down with mounds of slush, it flattened the yatra base camp at Chisoti in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar and reduces most of the village into rubble.

The Srinagar-Jammu highway was closed for traffic after heavy rain triggered landslides and shooting stones in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district. Hundreds of vehicles were stranded on the highway.

An Indian Army officer from 44 Rashtriya Rifles was seen playing cricket in the Shopian district.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Sunday ordered the closure of all educational institutions in the Jammu region on Monday in view of the inclement weather conditions, officials said.

Himalayan floods linked to climate change, deforestation, glacial lake outbursts, and monsoon rains.

At least seven people were killed and many others were injured in two separate incidents of cloudburst and landslide in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said on Sunday.

Explosives were used to blast giant boulders hampering the ongoing rescue and relief operations in the disaster-hit Chisoti village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on the third day on Saturday, officials said.

Chashoti village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district has turned into a site of outpouring grief, as families wait anxiously for the bodies of their loved ones who were killed or buried alive under the slush during Thursday's flash flood.

A massive cloudburst on Thursday triggered a flash flood in the Chashoti area of Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, along the route of the Machail Mata Yatra, which led to multiple casualties

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah believes over 500 people continue to be trapped.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted raids in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar and Handwara districts in connection with a terror funding case.