Kashmir Life

Army Claims Recovering Huge Arms and Ammunition From Machil

KL Report Srinagar Army on Monday claimed to have recovered huge quantity of arms and ammunition from Machil Setor in frontier district of Kupwara in North...

Day Long Gunfight Ends; 3 Militants, Cop Killed

KL Report Srinagar Three militants and a cop were killed while as a paramilitary trooper and a Special Operations Group (SOG) personnel sustained injuries in an...

Sumbal Killings Call For Action, No Need To Investigate: CPA

KL Report Srinagar Stating that withdrawal of AFSPA is meaningless unless it is not accompanied by by de-militarisation and the withdrawal of troops from civilian areas,...

J&K Bank Conducts Awareness Camps In Budgam

KL Report Srinagar With a view to impart basic financial education to people in rural areas, J&K Bank conducted many awareness programmes in district Budgam during the...

Quote of the week

I am ashamed of Kunan Poshpora, it happened in my country. Making people accountable for what happened is necessary,”   Salman Khursheed, Foreign Affairs Minister, said...

Towards Appreciating Mehjoor

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh flew to Srinagar to launch a postal stamp in memory of Mehjoor, Kashmir’s national poet, 60 years after his...

My Uncle Never Came Back

The everyday images of conflict and death that emerged in last two decades are imprinted on almost every Kashmiri’s mind. Nazir Ahmad, recalls one...

News Makers

SHOT DEAD: Kifayat Ahmed Mir, 40, resident of Sopore, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Buripora. Mir received four bullets in head and chest....

Briefing

CHAMLYAL Perhaps for the first time, the yearly Baba Chamlyal Mela festival falling on the India Pakistan border in Ramgarh witnessed participation of seven serving...

Resurgent Militancy?

An ambush in city outskirts killed eight soldiers on the eve of Prime Minister’s visit. It was continuation of serious assaults on security set...

Leather Lackluster!

 Due to highest per capita consumption of mutton and beef, Kashmir is major exporter of raw material to leather industry in North India. But...

Poet of Resistance

 Mehjoor lent his poetry to Kashmir’s fight against monarchy and once it was over, he became disgruntled with the political turnout, and died a...

Salman Khursheed

Salman Khursheed He still remembers how he lost his pet rabbit to Army cantonment in Srinagar. Then the former Convent student said something, which India...

Salman Sayings

Congress’s state president Prof Saif ud Din Soz deserves credit for getting the foreign minister to Srinagar and encouraging him to talk as much...

Young Novelist

Shaken by the events of 2008 Amarnath land row agitation, 17-year old Towfeeq Wani decided to pen down his newly found consciousness of his...