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Kashmir Life

Police arrests eight ‘miscreants’

KL Report SRINAGAR After police claimed to have identified the people who harassed and assaulted passengers in North Kashmir, Police Saturday in a statement said eight...

Hurriyat (M) calls for shutdown on May 21

KL Report SRINAGAR Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday appealed people to observe complete shutdown on May 21. Mirwaiz was addressing congressional meeting at Jamia Masjid...

Briefing

CHENNAI Indhu Rebecca Varghese, the widow of Major Mukund Vardarajan who died in a deadly encounter with militants in Shopian has used poetry to pay...

Digital Dreams

As India starts to digitalize its cable network, people in Kashmir stick to cables for love of Pakistani channels. Safwat Zargar talks to the...

The Axed!

In the garb of the decadal conflict, the state of affairs was hit left, right and centre in the valley. Neither sports nor sportspersons...

Silvery Landscape

R S Gull As the sun shines over the mountains, it seems as if it has lit up the soil and the stones. For the...

Think Again

Three days after 26-year-old Bashir Ahmad Bhat from Nawakadal was killed in CRPF firing a major part of Srinagar city continues to be under...

The Forgotten Poet

by Mir Liyaqat Nazir   Alam ha kar yaaad Azaad! Azaad! Kune SaTeh Wuchita yaad pawyee Madnowe. (One day the whole world will remember Azad Oh my beloved any moment...

Parents apparently

Arshid Malik When we were kids we used to be such gluttons that our parents would more than often upset with us for we would...

Bashir Ahmad Bhat

Ballot, boycott, bullets and finally blood marked April 30, 2014 - the Election Day in Srinagar Lok Sabha  constituency. The day till evening was...

Not a Holiday!

By: Shams Irfan On 30th of April, just when the day’s sun was about to set on the vast horizon shadowing historic Jamia Masjid, a...

Unpredictable

High Altitude Battle Unlike the last four phases in J&K, the last one involving Ladakh and Baramulla is being contested by parties so intensely that...

News Notes

Bloody APRIL Twenty-one persons including six civilians were killed in the month of April this year. So far 11 Civilians have got killed in the...

A Perfect Getaway

With winters extending up to May, Indian budget tourists find Kashmir a perfect getaway from scorching heat of the plains. But the skyrocketing airfare...

Centre Fold

One killing, one per cent increase in overall votes and boycott marked Srinagar elections as fate of 14 candidates is to be decided. Is...