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At least 38 paramilitary police officers were killed by a massive car bomb in Indian-controlled Kashmir in the worst attack on security personnel since the start of the insurgency in the disputed region three decades ago. The attack occurred Thursday afternoon about 3:15 p.m., police officials said, as a security convoy of 70 vehicles traveled down a major highway toward the city of Srinagar. An explosives-laden vehicle driven by a suicide bomber rammed into a bus carrying dozens of paramilitary personnel, said Sanjay Sharma, a spokesman for India’s Central Reserve Police Force. The killings will inflame tensions between nuclear-armed rivals...

An American researcher who believes she has found the final resting place of Jesus Christ is campaigning to exhume a body at a Muslim shrine in Kashmir for scientific tests. Suzanne Marie Olsson, a New York-based researcher is currently in Srinagar, studying the Muslim shrine of Rozabal. While Muslims say Rozabal houses the tomb of Yuza Asaf, a Muslim saint, many researchers believe it contains the body of Jesus Christ. To put an end to speculation Olsson has suggested exhuming the remains at Rozabal for DNA testing and carbon dating. quot;This will trace him (the saint) to his origin ......

SRINAGAR, India-Controlled Kashmir (CNN) -- At least six people were killed and 55 hurt Tuesday in clashes between Indian police and villagers protesting in three communities in India-controlled Kashmir, police said.

A massive car bomb explosion ripped through summer capital Srinagar (of the Indian state of Jammu&Kashmir) on Wednesday, killing four people, even as the administration and security forces were busy making preparations for Ghulam Nabi Azad's swearing-in ceremony as the tenth chief minister of the state. The car bomb rocked the entire Nawgam area on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, smashing glass panes in nearby homes. Jaish-e-Mohammad has claimed responsibility for the attack. The site of the explosion is near the private residence of former chief minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. Gopal Sharma, director general of police, Jammu and Kashmir, told rediff.com that...

SRINAGAR, Nov 2 (Reuters) - A powerful car bomb exploded on a busy highway in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring seven policemen hours before a new chief minister was due to be sworn in, police said. The explosion occurred in the Himalayan region's main city, Srinagar, where violence continues despite a tentative peace between India and Pakistan, which have fought two wars over the state. Police said no further details were available. "It was a loud explosion; the blast shook the whole house. Some window panes were destroyed," said Amina Begum, who lives nearby. India has...

Mnay people were on Wednesday morning injured in a massive bomb blast in Srinagar's Sonwar area. Further details are awaited.

First Kashmir bus sets off from Indian city SRINAGAR, India, April 7 (Reuters) - A bus garlanded with orange marigolds set off from the capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday carrying passengers bound for the Pakistani side of the territory for first time in nearly 60 years. The bus, launching a historic service linking the Himalayan region divided since 1947, was sent off by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from Kashmir's main city Srinagar, bound for Muzaffarabad in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. "The caravan of peace has started," Singh told thousands of Kashmiris who had gathered in a heavily guarded stadium...

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Seven people were killed and 45 others injured in Indian Kashmir in a bloody start to the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which Islamic rebels have vowed will be soaked in violence. Ramadan began in Kashmir on Tuesday with a warning from hardline Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba that it would increase attacks during the holy month. "There will be an escalation in the activities of mujahedin (holy warriors) in the month of Ramadan," Abu Huzaifa, the spokesman for the Lashkar-e-Taiba group told the Greater Kashmir newspaper. The newspaper said: "People should keep themselves away from the...

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