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Friday, April 19, 2024
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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

KARGIL

What almond is to Kashmir,  apricot is to Kargil. Right now it is snow-white in a vast belt as apricot is in bloom. Hardass...

J&K Bank Is A Public OFFICE

In a landmark decision State Information Commission has declared Jammu and Kashmir Bank as a public authority and holds it liable to provide information...

KOLKOTTA

Kolkata filmmaker Nilosree Biswas’s short film on Kashmir’s ‘Half Widows’ would be shown at the prestigious Festival de Cannes in May. ‘Broken Memory, Shining...

Newsmakers

RAIDED: Police raided a government hospital in Islamabad and recovered stocks of expired drugs that were distributed to the patients in there. In a...

The Hajj DIRECTION

New guidelines may be sunshine for many. The union government has informed the Supreme Court that it has decided to restrict Hajj pilgrimage at...

Newsmakers

APPOINTED: Considering “Omar Abdullah not too busy” with the state, Farooq Abdullah and the rest of the National Conference has decided to appoint Omar...

LAL CHOWK

As mobs became restive, police finally swooped on a Border Security Force (BSF) man and booked him for eve-teasing. Jagan Nath from 118 Bn...

Al-Faran RETURNS

A stunning revelation made by two writers in a recent book on Kashmir conflict has revealed that four tourists kidnapped to seek the release...

Newsmakers

Honoured: Media Federation of India honoured the Director Information and Public Relations, Jammu and Kashmir State, Khawaja Farooq Renzushah with Media Excellence Awards-2012. He...

BADAMWARI

Abdullahs’ were on a day out. Mr and Mrs Dr Farooq Abdullah, son Omar, their locally settled daughter and her husband and son appeared...

UN Official in KASHMIR

Following the visit of UN special Rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya last year, UN Rapporteur, Christof Heyns arrived in Kashmir on a one and a half...

Newsmakers

DIES: Sajad Ahmed, 22, of  Sangrampora Sopore who was under PSA detention died at SKIMS, Soura. His family accused police of not providing him...

JAMMU

It was his maiden visit to J&K, Dr S Subbarao, the RBI governor had came to see the process of financial inclusion in a...

The Temple RACKET

The government of Jammu and Kashmir has been mired in a new scam in which people from the temple trust, revenue department and judiciary...

Newsmakers

EXPOSED: 50 individuals applying for contractual college lecturer positions were found possessing fraudulent M Phil degrees. The applicants were all from Anantnag. The case...