It was a dramatic momentous Monday for Jammu and Kashmir. In one go, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Indian government put the militancy-hit state in a new template of its future journey along a path that is set to be very different from the one it has treaded for the last seven decades since the accession of the princely state to India after Partition in 1947.

India's government hails "historic" legislation to bring Kashmir under its direct control, as Pakistan vows to back the Muslim-majority region and challenge the divisive move which has seen tensions soar.

The abolition of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir has sparked apprehensions in north eastern Indian states as the next Article 371 contains special provisions for them relating to sale and transfer of land and distinctive social and religious practices.

As the Indian Government on Monday abrogated constitutional provisions that give Indian-occupied Kashmir special rights, a number of Twitter hashtags popped up in solidarity with the people of the valley.

The Indian government said that removing Article 370 was necessary as it had led to terrorism and came in the way of curbing corruption in Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan says it “strongly condemns” India’s decision to revoke the special status for its portion of the Kashmir region claimed by both countries.

The Indian government has revoked the special status of Kashmir in a bid to fully integrate its only Muslim-majority region with the rest of the country, the most far-reaching move on the troubled Himalayan territory in nearly seven decades.

In a landmark decision, the Bharatiya Janata Party government headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir state, has been removed.

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir place large parts of the disputed region under lockdown while India sends in tens of thousands of additional troops and trades accusations of clashes with Pakistan at their de facto border.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to India in October this year to improve further the bilateral relations between the two friendly neighbours.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) releases five images of the Earth taken by Chandrayaan 2, the country’s second unmanned lunar mission, two weeks after its launch.

While the National Register of Citizen (NRC) in Assam is still mired in controversy, the Indian government has decided to go for a country-wide documentation of persons “usually residing” in India.

Doctors operating on a pregnant woman at a government hospital in Bihar were left hugely surprised when she “delivered” a 315 bore rifle bullet along with a baby girl. The reason for their amazement was that the bullet was stuck in her womb in such a way that it neither harmed the baby nor the mother! But, what was even more surprising was the woman’s revelation that she had no idea as to when the bullet hit her.

Former vice president of Maldives Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor, who had sought political asylum in India, has been sent back to his home country, police say.

India's parliament passes a "historic" law to guarantee a minimum wage to hundreds of millions of workers, but labour activists say it has not gone far enough to protect those in the informal sector.

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India yesterday again rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate between Islamabad and New Delhi in the Kashmir conflict, as media reported that India was moving an additional 25,000 troops to the insurgency-torn region.

The rise in the cases of dengue fever in West Bengal in the border regions is a result of the widespread outbreak of the disease in Bangladesh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says.

India tells the United States that any discussion on Kashmir, if at all warranted, will only be with Pakistan.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra says the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Unnao rape case, in which a Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker is the main accused, is a “stamp on the prevailing jungle raj” in the saffron party-ruled Uttar Pradesh and the state government’s “failure”.