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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Kashmir Life

Shab-e-Bharat

Night at the Graveyard

Cemeteries across the valley witness an unprecedented rush during the night of Shab-e-Baraat. Bilal Handoo reports on this tradition of visiting the final resting...

Apple Cart to Panchal

The Mughal road may not be officially open yet, but it has already meant a huge deal to people in Kashmir valley, Poonch and...

Injustice and desperation

It has been more than 12 years since the victims of Pathribal faked encounter were laid to rest. But their charred bodies, identified after...
Angry mob at Khanyar

Loss and Anger

An eyewitness account of the devastating fire at Khanyar last Monday in which the shrine of Dastgeer Sahib was destroyed. Early Monday morning Khanyar was...
Mourning the Loss[Photo: Yasir Muhammad]

The Revered Dastgeer Sahab

In the heart of Srinagar, the shrine of Dastgeer sahib withstood tests of time for more than two centuries. Kashmir has now lost this...
The burning Shrine[Photo: Bilal Bahadur]

Neglecting The Essence

Kashmir has slowly been losing its essence - influences and heritage that inform its faith and culture - to callousness and exigencies of conflict...
Avtar Singh asli

Killer’s last decade

Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...

Number Games

While the proposed introduction of High Security Registration Plate System for vehicles will check car thefts to a large extent, the move threatens to...
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A Chilling ‘Voice’

The kidnapping and murder of Jaleel Andrabi in 1996 pushed the High Court to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for finding answers...

Trading Energy

J&K might live in energy misery for some more years but an emphasis over self-sufficiency and a sound potential has unlocked minds and opened...

Feeding on Tiger Hill

The second coldest inhabited place is provided electricity from a mini hydel project that runs for six months in a year. Shams Irfan reports. With...

The Leh Line

Located on the Leh – Manali road on the left bank of Indus River Igo Mercellong is the backbone of power to Leh as...

Small Steps

Ecological considerations slowed down Pahalgam mini power project for long, now that two units are up and running the PDC is adding up a...

In Basholi’s Sewa

The project suffers for lack of dependable evacuation system. Now PDC will use NHPC transmission line to improve yields from Sewa. A Kashmir Life report. Tapping...

Getting double boost

The project is situated in Sani Zanskar village on Haftal nalla, a tributary of Zanskar River. Completed at a cost of rupees 422.05 lac...