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Tuesday, May 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

Relentless BLOODSHED

Relentless BLOODSHED In two separate incidents in valley this week, glimpses of violent scenes of nineties flashed back. First the youth duo of Irfan Ahmad...

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GANDERBAL Thirteen year old Faizan Ali Mir’s inability to solve a mathematics problem last year pushed him to invent a formula for cracking the magic...

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SHOT DEAD: Kifayat Ahmed Mir, 40, resident of Sopore, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Buripora. Mir received four bullets in head and chest....

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CHAMLYAL Perhaps for the first time, the yearly Baba Chamlyal Mela festival falling on the India Pakistan border in Ramgarh witnessed participation of seven serving...

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CET CONTROVERSY The Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) once again put the state of J&K to shame. First they were involved in leaking the...

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Indicted INQUIRY The memories of 2008 Amarnath land row got refreshed this week with the new comprehensive inquiry by Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission...

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SEIZED: Army recovered and seized four AK rifles and ammunition from Sabjian, Poonch near LoC in two days. As per the Army inputs, the militants...

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BANIHAL: Finally, the highway town is getting ready to be the new gateway to Kashmir. The 18 kms rail link connecting the town with Qazigund...

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Militancy SPURTS Encounters seem to have firmed their grip over valley once again. Recently one Lashkar-i-Toiba militant was gunned down and two policemen injured in...

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LADAKH: The holiday of an IAS officer from Madhya Pradesh, his wife and their companions had a tragic end; they all died in a road...

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DIED: Three people including a 20 days old baby died and two others sustained injuries when a Maruti car met an accident at Drabshala, Kishtwar....

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‘Upheaval’ SIGNS! Encounters are returning back in Kashmir with a brisk pace. This week, it was the 19-hour gunbattle between militants and security forces in...

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MUMBAI As tourist footfalls and Bollywood crew arrivals are determining Kashmir situation, suicide of Boniyar model Mir Aamir in Mumbai went unnoticed. So did the...

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FOILED: Police foiled an attempt to smuggle bovine animals and seized two Mahindra vehicles rescuing 14 cattle which were being illegally transported to Kashmir. Noticing...

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 MOUNT EVEREST Almost six decades after the first successful scaling, a Kashmiri soldier, Rafiq Malik, 33, scaled Mount Everest. He was part of an NCC...