Briefing October 11-17, 2026

BANGLADESH Jammu and Kashmir deported 300 Bangladeshi nationals found living illegally in the Union Territory. IAF flew them from Srinagar to Bagdogra in West Bengal...

Briefing October 4-10, 2026

DELHI Former R&AW chief AS Dulat’s first novel, Our Kind of Games, offers a fictionalised but deeply personal account of Kashmir in the early 1990s,...

Briefing September 27 -October 3, 2026

SRINAGAR At an impressive launch at Amar Singh Club in Srinagar, Onaiza Drabu’s Penguin-published The Big Book of Kashmiri Literature brought together the city’s literary...
Renu Hans resumed study after a haitus of 22 years at the age of 45 and passed her matriculation.Her son taught her

Briefing September 20-26, 2026

KASHMIR Fifty-five candidates selected through the J&K Combined Competitive Examination have joined the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service and J&K Accounts (Gazetted) Service, but their...

Briefing September 13-19, 2026

SRINAGAR A 21-year-old man allegedly under the influence of drugs entered Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s official residence on Wazarat Road in Jammu,...

Briefing September 6-12, 2026

DELHI Yasin Malik, jailed chief of the banned JKLF, has denied any role in the April 1990 abduction and killing of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla...

Briefing August 30 – September 5, 2026

KISHTWAR The Kishtwar Himalayas have emerged as a key snow leopard stronghold, with a new four-year wildlife survey confirming 12 snow leopards across six mountain...

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...