Ab.Rashid Khan Health care is a top priority in the democratic set up of the welfare state. India is also not lagging behind ...

A grand public function was organized today at the historic Jeo Pota Ghat in Akhnoor to commemorate the coronation of ...

To mark the 203rd coronation day of Maharaja Gulab Singh, Natrang Tuesday screened the episode of Rajtilak from the highly ...

Although Maharaja Hari Singh was a devout Hindu and patron of temples such as Raghunath and Vaishno Devi, he tellingly declared, “Justice is my religion,” to reassure Muslims, Buddhists, and others of ...

After the First Anglo-Sikh War, the East India Company sold Kashmir to Maharaja Gulab Singh for 7.5 million rupees—land, people, and all. To many Kashmiris, it was a literal sale of their lives.

As Moaswes explained, “The way this princely state became constituted was that in 1846, during the Second Anglo-Sikh War, the Sikh Empire was forced to forfeit its rule over that region. The ruler of ...

However, this varied strongly by region: of some 13 million people in the state, eight million live in the Kashmir Valley, which is now over 95% Muslim; upwards of 74% there supported independence.

New Delhi’s traditional line remains that the Instrument of Accession signed by Maharaja Hari Singh in 1947 rendered Jammu and Kashmir an integral part of India.

The first contemporary reference to Jammu as an important state was in the memoirs of Timur, in his invasion of India (1398 - 1399). Thursday, Jun 26, 2025 New Delhi o C ...

Both countries accused each other of aiming attacks at territories well beyond their disputed Kashmir border. As night fell late Friday, India reported heavy drone incursions in the country’s north.

The mountainous state of Jammu and Kashmir, which at the time was still a kingdom, soon became a flashpoint. Pakistan backed an insurgency there, leading to the first war with India.