At least 60 people were killed, more than 100 injured and another 200 still missing, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah told reporters on Friday. The Himalayas are prone to floods and landslides, but some scientists say the intensity and frequency of these events are increasing due to climate change.

Sudden floods triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 400 people across parts of Pakistan, India-administered Kashmir and Nepal, authorities have said, with scores of people still missing.

As India embraced its 78th Independence Day, its renewed experiment in J&K offers not just a national uplift but a global story: that even the most fragile places can find resilience when governance is steady,

A large makeshift kitchen — where there were more than 100 pilgrims who were not registered with local authorities — was completely washed away.

Authorities threaten people with prison time for selling or owning works by authors like Booker winner Arundhati Roy and historian Victoria Schofield

At least 32 people have been killed in flash floods caused by torrential rains in a remote, mountainous village in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a disaster management official has said. Mohammed Irshad said on Thursday that rescue teams scouring the devastated Himalayan village of Chositi brought at least 100 people to safety.

The federally appointed government in the contested region has declared 25 books off limits, part of what many see as a pattern of repression.

Three months after militants killed 26 tourists at a scenic meadow in the Himalayas, India said that its security forces had found and killed three gunmen behind the massacre.

The horticulture sector in Kashmir has faced massive losses after fresh tariffs from the US with export orders drying up after new taxes.