The Apex Court, which is hearing the writ petition challenging the Union Home Ministry ban on prepaid mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir, Tuesday granted two more weeks' time to Government of India to file its response.

Teenager Rukhsana Kausar who became a hero after she fought and killed a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist last month has been made a special police officer (SPO).

A self-styled battalion commander of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit was Friday killed in an operation jointly carried out by army and police at Goos on the border of Pulwama-Budgam district in India's northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir

A soldier and a villager were killed Wednesday by security personnel in an operation against militants that had started the day before in Jammu and Kashmir's mountainous Reasi district.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah resumed office on Friday after state Governor N N Vohra dismissed PDP's allegation that he was involved in the 2006 sex scandal.