(2000 pop. 606,000). The summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar lies between two hills, the Hari Parbat and the Shankar Acharya (also known as Takht-i-Suleiman). The original town of Srinagar was founded in the third century...

Coordinates: 34°05′N 74°47′E / 34.09, 74.79 Srinagar pronunciation (help·info) ( actually pronounced as Shree+nagar)(Urdu: سرینگر, Kashmiri: سِرېنَگَر श्रीनगर) , is the summer capital of the state of Jammu...

Hundreds of people attacked government forces with rocks in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday as protests against the police over the killing of a teenager continued for a fourth day.Police fired tear gas and used bamboo batons to subdue hundreds of protesters...

There will be no more "Desperate Housewives" for residents of Indian Kashmir. They will have to do without "Friends" reruns, too.Four foreign television channels have been pulled from the air in Indian-controlled Kashmir after Islamic militant groups demanded cable companies stop airing "obscene" shows, cable...

Avalanches and landslides in Kashmir forced Indian security teams to airlift thousands of people to safe areas, while at least eight Pakistani soldiers were feared dead after they were buried under a snowslide near the Afghan border, officials said Thursday. Both incidents occurred in the...

Suspected Islamic militants attacked a paramilitary camp, a police post and an army vehicle in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, killing three government soldiers and wounding 22, police said.India has an estimated 700,000 soldiers in Kashmir, fighting nearly a dozen rebel groups since a separatist insurgency...