Restrictions on the movement of people in Kashmir valley were partially eased today with landline phone services being restored in some areas of Srinagar city even as stringent security remained in place, officials say.

After the rare “closed consultation” at the United Nations Security Council on Kashmir, India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin said the issue “entirely is an internal matter”.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has restored mutual trust between Dhaka and New Delhi and brought a change in the mindset regarding bilateral ties, says High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali.

The Centre tells the Supreme Court that the restrictions imposed in the Kashmir Valley will be lifted in the next few days, adding that the security agencies must be trusted as the ground situation is being reviewed daily.

The UN Security Council is due to meet behind closed-doors at the request of China and Pakistan to discuss India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, diplomats say.

Pakistan says three of its soldiers are killed in a cross-border exchange of fire in the contested Kashmir region, but India denies that five of its troops are dead too.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will reportedly hold a “closed door” meeting to discuss India’s move to revoke Article 370, that had granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

Indian Air Force officer Abhinandan Varthaman, who downed a Pakistani war plane during an aerial combat in February and was captured by that country, has been chosen for Veer Chakra, India's third-highest war time gallantry medal, the Defence Ministry announces.

India’s National Investigation Agency said it has arrested a top absconding militant of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in connection with the October 2014 Burdwan blast.

Pakistan asks the United Nations Security Council to meet over India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

The death toll from India’s monsoon floods has climbed to 202 as heavy rainfall kept pounding coastal regions in the west and south.

One person drowns and 13 people sustain burn injuries as a major fire sweeps through an Indian Coast Guard’s offshore support ship, forcing its crew to jump into the Bay of Bengal in outer harbour of Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh.

India’s Supreme Court orders that the list of those people who are excluded from the final National Register of Citizens in Assam be published only online on August 31.

The Border Security Force of India and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) exchange sweets and wishes on the occasion of Eid-ul Adha at designated points along the 4,096-km frontier between the two countries.

Eid-ul-Azha prayers were offered in mosques across the Kashmir valley amidst no reports of any violence, police say.

Six days after India revoked the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories, Kashmiri students in the national capital are still not able to communicate with their relatives and parents back home.

Sonia Gandhi is named the new interim President of the Congress party, two and half months after her son Rahul Gandhi quit the top organisational post of the party taking responsibility for its crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.

Omar Abdullah-led National Conference move the Supreme Court challenging the Indian government’s move to abrogate Article 370 which gave Jammu and Kashmir a special status and to bifurcate it into two federally-ruled territories.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that elections will be held soon in the state for the local assembly, two days after government's decision to end special status for the state and split it into two union territories.

A joint technical committee of Bangladesh and India reaches a consensus to conduct a joint study on Ganges Barrage to assess its impact on the environment and livelihood.