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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

Atir Ahmed Dar

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SOPORE The 19-year-old Atir Ahmad Dar who was one of the six militants slain in Saidpora encounter is termed to be the victim of the...

NUMBERS

329 houseboats will have to realign and displace from their present position in Dal Lake to help the water body manage their waste better.   ?113...
Sushil Kumar Shinde and Mustafa Kamal

News Notes

  AFSPA VACILLATION The sword is still swinging on the AFSPA revocation. On one side thecentral government keeps on saying the militancy related incidents areon decrease...

NEWSMAKERS

SOLD: A ring with a Kashmir sapphire was sold for $ 1.37 million (more than Rs 7 crore) at a Christie’s auction in New...
MC Kash rapper-Roshan-Illahi,

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SONAWAR It made big news last week when Rolling Stones, an American magazine considered to be the ultimate in music, reviewed Kashmir’s rapper Roshan Illahi,...

Numbers

226 is the number of AIDS deaths in J&K, so far. ₹5500 crore is the cost overrun of Kashmir railways project that initially cost ₹2500...

News Notes

Two more life IMPRISONMENT After 22 years, a TADA court gave life imprisonment to two JKLF militants Nazir Ahmad Sheikh of Batamaloo and Showkat Ahmad...

News Makers

INVOLVED: In a setback to Army, the J&K police has revealed that Major Vishwajeet Singh and Commandant S K Malik of Army’s 20 grenadiers...

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BOULEVARD It was something that Srinagar has not seen. Around 160 cyclists, 100 of them from abroad, raced in the second leg of tour-de-India and...

Numbers

After Kargil War, Indian Army has Lost 3987 soldiers excluding 530 who committed suicide.   Since 2008, the Tourism Department spent ?20,000,000 plus to fund travel...

News Notes

In Denial MODE Despite the personnel intervention by chief minister Omar Abdullah in the Bomai killings, families of the victims are still waiting for justice. In...

NEWS MAKERS

KILLED: Praveen Kumar, 21, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, was killed in an attack by suspected militants in Bemina. In a separate incident at...

BRIEFING

RAMNAGAR It was tragedy scripted on a wedding. Twenty guests were killed when their bus returning from Mahore with the bride skipped off the road...

News Makers

EXTENSION: The High Court has granted the state government two more weeks to explain the rationale behind referring only 17 instead of all the 100...

News Notes

RESTRICTIONS on Muharram The authorities imposed undeclared curfew in Srinagar in view of the Muharram processions and anti Israel protests. Anti Israel protest call after...