Kashmir Life

Fig: Fruit of the Paradise

By: Zeenat Farooq Common Fig or Ficus Carica is a flowering plant of Moraceae (mulberry family). A native of Middle East and Western Asia, Fig...

Between Two Eids

Within days after teenage rebel was killed soon after the Eid 2016, Kashmir started changing rapidly. A year later, almost everybody in Kashmir is...

Engineer Rashid

Engineer Rashid, the fire band lawmaker from Langate region, knows how to stay relevant both in politics and news. His one liners often make...

Briefing

DOGRIPORA Feroz Dar’s killing was widely condoled but it triggered a controversy with police announcing contributing a day’ salary to 16 bereaved families of 2017....

Radiating Carcinogens?

 As Wazwan country plans massive wedding feasts - a yearly Rs 1879 crore economy, there are concerns about the source of millions of sheep...

Olive: A Blessed Fruit

By: Zeenat Farooq Olive tree belonging to Oleaceae family found in the Mediterranean basin, Arabian Peninsula and in parts of southern Asia. Oleaceae family derives...

Unending pain

The creation of counter-insurgency grid during 90s forced thousands of families into self-exile. But there were a few families who lost lot more than...

Briefing

SHARIEFABAD Discussing the word Azaadi being written by some student on the blackboard, soldiers were infuriated when a teacher of a Goodwill School referred a...

Bloody Friday

This Friday started with mourning in Kashmir. As the dawn fell, two young men were sent in coffins to their home in Ashtangoo village...

A Mosque for all

Before a small misunderstanding over praying space between two communities could have escalated into a major crisis, someone came with a novel solution. Four...

Kakpora Encounter: Police version

SRINAGAR: police issued a detailed statement on the Kakpora encounter in which three militants were killed. Acting on a specific input Pulwama police along with...

SSA teachers protest, threaten state-wide lock down of schools

Srinagar The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers staged a protest at Press Enclave Srinagar on Thursday against the delay in the release of their pending...

India claims: 2 Pak soldiers killed in cross border firing along LoC

Srinagar India on Thursday claimed to have killed two Pakistani soldiers along the line of control after the later violated ceasefire in Nowshera sector in...

Briefing

CHANDIGARH It is unprecedented. In a PGI ward, two patients with identical kidney ailment, Hanifa Bano from Kulgam and Harpal Bhardwaj from Karnal, were looking...

Jamia Masjid

Centre of religion and resistance, Jamia Masjid in Old city Srinagar holds the biggest congregation in Valley. Built by by Sultan Sikandar Shah Kashmiri...