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HDFC Playing At FIFTY
HFDC completed its half century in Jammu and Kashmir. The private sector second generation bank has now 50 branches and 135...
NEWSMAKERS
SHOT DEAD: Army and state police claims that they have killed Shakir Ahmed alais Chota Haafiz, a top Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander at Qadara, Kishtwar. He...
Numbers
Of the 458 cases, the State Accountability Commission has decided 128 cases in one year and transferred 282 cases to the State vigilance Commission.
The...
Briefing
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...
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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...
BRIEFING
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...
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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...
Briefing
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...
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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...
