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The initial group of Hajj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir will embark on their journey to Saudi Arabia through two flights departing from Srinagar International Airport on Thursday.

According to officials, the search operation was carried out to track the terrorists.

An encounter broke out between terrorists and a joint team of police and Village Defence Guard (VDG) members at Basantgarh in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district

Over 350 people in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K’s) Ramban District abandoned their homes on Saturday after destruction of the houses due to land subsidence.

Two terrorists were killed while a civilian and two soldiers were injured in the ongoing gunfight between the security forces and holed-up militants in Sopore town of J&K’s Baramulla district on Friday.

An encounter started on Wednesday between the security forces and terrorists in J&K’s Bandipora district.

Security forces on Sunday arrested a school headmaster working as an overground worker (OGW) of terrorists with a pistol and grenades in J&K’s Poonch district.

A boat overturned in the Jhelum river in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. There is news of some people missing in this accident. A boat capsized in the Jhelum river on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday, officials said.

The annual Amarnath Yatra will start on June 29 this year and conclude on August 19, coinciding with the occasion of Shravan Purnima.

Two tourists, one from the US and another from Gujarat, died on Saturday in J&K's Sonamarg and Pahalgam hill stations.