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Saturday, September 19, 2026
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Briefing

News nuggets about the interesting happenings in Jammu and Kashmir and the people who are in the focus of around those developments

Briefing August 23-29, 2026

CHATROO The death of a 12-year-old schoolgirl in Chatroo has exposed a disturbing question beyond the criminal investigation: how did a child allegedly remain pregnant...

Briefing August 16-22, 2026

GANDERBAL A suspected extramarital affair has led to an unusual alleged drug-framing plot in Ganderbal, where police said a government employee tried to implicate his...

Briefing August 9-15, 2026

JAMMU KASHMIR Financial fraud in Jammu and Kashmir is taking a curious turn: the number of reported cases is falling, but the money involved is...

Briefing August 2-8, 2026

PULWAMA From a village in Pulwama with no indoor stadium to the international MMA arena, Owais Yaqoob, 22, has emerged as Jammu and Kashmir's first...
Dr Aasiya Nabi and Dr Sofi Imtiyaz

Briefing July 26 – August 1, 2026

Syed Muzaffar Aga (1919-2026) Syed Muzaffar Aga, one of Jammu and Kashmir's oldest surviving civil servants and a former Chief Secretary of the erstwhile state, passed...
Hadiya Nisar

Briefing July 19-25, 2026

KUPWARA From the border district of Kupwara to the frontiers of molecular science, PhD scholar Zainab Amin has earned the NMRS Young Scientist–Jharna Rani Samal...

Briefing July 12 – 18, 2026

MUMBAI Bollywood actor Huma Qureshi's visit to Srinagar to promote Baby Do Die Do turned into a celebration of her Kashmiri roots, with the actor...

Briefing July 5-11, 2026

RAMBAN The newly completed 3.5-km Digdole-Panthyal tunnel and the 810-metre viaduct near Ramsu on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway opened to traffic on July 2, marking...

Briefing June 8 – July 4, 2026

NISHAT Srinagar karting sensation Atiqa Mir, 11, has created history by becoming the first Indian and Asian female racer selected for the Formula 1 Academy's...

Briefing June 21-27, 2026

KULGAM Around 500 high-density apple plants were axed by unidentified miscreants in Hatipora, Behibagh (Kulgam), causing losses estimated at over Rs 25 lakh to a...

Briefing June 14-20, 2026

ZOJI LA The Zojila Tunnel, one of India's most ambitious mountain infrastructure projects, has achieved a major construction milestone with the completion of excavation work,...
cricket, IPL

Briefing June 7-13, 2026

URI A 22-year-old man from Muzaffarabad crossed the Line of Control in the Uri sector, allegedly to meet a young woman from Uri in Kashmir...

Briefing May 31-June 6, 2026

GULMARG Gulmarg Gondola operations were suspended for around a week after a major technical snag left nearly 320 tourists stranded mid-air for several hours, prompting...

Briefing May 24-30, 2026

TRAL Hundreds of Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus in Tral’s Midora village joined the last rites of 90-year-old Kashmiri Pandit woman Jigri, who had continued living...

Briefing May 17-23, 2026

KATHUA A mother in Kathua has lost both her sons within five days after a brutal assault allegedly carried out by a close friend over...