Kashmir Life
Briefing
SRINAGAR
‘City Father’ Ghulam Nabi Qasba whose contribution to improving civic amenities in the capital city are positively debated is keen to reintroduce and popularize...
From Rags to Riches
Born in a penurious family, Muneer Alam worked as a labourer at a tender age of 13 to pay his school fees. As hardships...
“Maharaja Pratap Singh even banned burial of the dead”
Muhammad Siddiq Parray, the Grand Old Man of Sonawar, breathed his last on March 21. A witness to an eventful century of Kashmir’s history...
A New Stone Age
As sections of youth try to standardize stone pelting as the new mode of communication, law enforcing agencies slide in the old era to...
A Lasting Influence
Iran has made a deep mark on the cultural, demographic and political landscape through a certain amount of interactions, which is visible in the...
Perfecting Role-play
As National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party slug it out on who was drawing political mileage out of the hanging of Afzal Guru, both...
Habibullah Shair
A well known media professional of the state—Habibullah Shair, 80, passed away Tuesday after battling a prolonged illness at SKIMS, Soura. The deceased was living in...
News Notes
Violent TIMES
It seems Kashmir is heading back to turbulent times. At least, recent attacks on government forces in Valley and now an arrest of...
News Makers
HELD: JK Bank organized Kissan credit card (KCC’s) camps at Kanoor, Tambis and Trespone, Kargil. The camp witnessed good participation of the farmers and...
Personality
Sakina Itoo
In an otherwise raucous state assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, heckling of members is nothing new. The house, after the execution of Afzal...
Tragic Tales
Following the execution of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru, police and paramilitary forces have resorted to extreme use of pellet guns to deal...
Dangerous Tactics
Introduced in the summer of 2010 as a ‘non-lethal’ crowd control measure, pepper gas and chilly grenades were touted to restrain protests without causing...
‘Non-lethal’ Weapons
The much-touted claims of dealing with protests by using ‘non-lethal’ weapons are falling flat in the face with the number of protestors who have...
Briefing
GURGAON
They are 188, all Kashmiri Pandits who had migrated in 1990’s. In 2001, they had purchased 12 acres of land in Bahadurgarh, Jhajjar. But...
Rafiq Lone Elected Chairman JKYF
KL Report
Srinagar
Mohammad Rafiq Lone, life member of J&K Yateem Foundation, was Saturday elected as the chairman of the Foundation. Lone has been elected for...
