Kashmir Life
CAPD Scam: AD Sgr Called For Questioning, 9 Store Keepers Identified
KL Report
SRINAGAR
Crime Branch has identified a Tehsil Supplies Officer (TSO) and nine Store Keepers of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) for their alleged...
Gagrin Killings: Justice Koul Appeals People To Depose Before The Commission
KL Report
SRINAGAR
Retired Justice M.L.Koul heading the Inquiry Commission constituted to probe the killing of five persons by CRPF in two different firing incidents on...
Smoked Fish: A Photo Feature
Smoked fish, or Fher is one of the age old delicacies tasted in Kashmir Valley. As winter sets in, selling of smoked fish and...
Briefing
HYDERPORA
Syed Ali Geelani, now back to his jail at home, has asked Imam’s to learn Islam from Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. An outspoken film...
Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan
It seems judiciary is lock, stock, and barrel in the state executive at the moment. At least, glimpses of that are being felt frequently...
Life in Darkness
Come winters and Kashmir slips into perpetual darkness. If one looks from sky one can see nothing but darkness enveloping the valley. The absence...
Landlords of Lalpora
The rise and fall of Bhat family in Lolab valley coincided with major events in Kashmir history. From once powerful landlords to mere numberdaars,...
Talking Lights
He wanted to be a creative person like his goldsmith father, but in a different field. Mohammad Younis Zargar, whose work as cinematographer was...
Obituary
Gayoor Hassan
(1939-2013)
Noted Kashmiri artist, sculptor and former Principal of Fine Arts College Kashmir, Gayoor Hassan breathed his last this past week at SKIMS Srinagar....
Stoning a Fate!
In a conflict zone like Kashmir anything and everything that offers peace sells like hot cakes. In last two decades many people made fortunes...
News Maker
ARRESTED:
Pacca Danga police in Jammu arrested an absconder, Rakesh Sharma, who was evading his arrest for past eight years. Sharma is accused under section...
Manufacturing Doctors
Every summer, the CET set off a chain of reports about wrongdoings in the process. This year as the High Court sought status of...
News Notes
Rodent CARE
Next time you are in Valley’s lone tertiary care hospital and electricity plays hide and seek, don’t blame PDD! It might be the...
Surviving a Trap
By Nayeem Rather
A scene in Turtles Can Fly (2004), a Kurdish war film set in a refugee camp on Iraqi-Turkish border, where a 12-year-old...
Shimla’s Kashmir Link
Born out of adversity Shimla became second home for Kashmiris fleeing Maharaja’s Begaar system, the very notorious forced labour. Even though Hari Singh fled...
