2015 News Makers
KP in US
Year 2015 saw some Non-Resident Kashmiris (NRKs) ascend the glorious heights in the field of science. Kashmir-born Privahini Badroo secured the grant...
Briefing
RAJOURI
NC leader Devendra Singh Rana led a grand delegation to Kesar Gala to mourn the assassination of its Kalakote activist Ishtiyaq by a VDC...
Briefing
DELHI
Foreseeing the implications of the Planning Commission disbanding, J&K Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu made changes in the fiscal classification and done away with...
Briefing
LONDON
Kashmir novelist Mirza Waheed’s second creation The Book of Gold Leaves has been shortlisted for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015. Winner for...
Briefing
KATRA
Of the seven people killed in Katra chopper crash, there was a couple married for five days. IFS man Arjun Singh Chib married Vandana...
Briefing
GOA
Minister Sajad Gani Lone is the first recipient of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Award for Politics 2015. Part of Swarajya Awards, constituted by the...
Briefing
MUZAFFARABAD
The people-to-people contact across the LoC is a constant affair. The only difference is that people do not know of it! Last month, a...
Baglihar Briefing
The first major power project that J&K government owns, the two stage-900-MW Baglihar station was completed in more than 15 years. Initiated by Dr...
Briefing
KULGAM
Khandaypora witnessed an unprecedented spectacle where people from different places literally fought for the corpse of slain Lashkar commander Abdul Rehman alias Abu Qasim,...
Briefing
MUMBAI
A year after they tied the knots on October 18, 2014, Dia Mirza and Sahil Sangha were in Kashmir last week to celebrate the...
Briefing
DELHI
Finally the two men controlling the South and North Pole alliance in J&K have met. In the second meeting after taking over as Chief...
Briefing
SECRETARIAT
There seems to be no end to independent MLA from Langate Er Rasheed’s woes, both inside and outside the state legislative assembly. A day...
Briefing
EIDGAH
Given the build-up in anticipation of Eid, even the commoners were tense. Authorities resorted to two things quite fast: massive deployments and plugging of...
Briefing
SKICC
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Dr Raghuram Rajan was in Srinagar for three days. Accompanied by CMDs of SBI, PNB, Canara Bank and...
