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Acid ATTACK The commercial hub Lal Chowk and its adjoining areas on Friday observed a two-hour shutdown against the acid attack on a woman in...

Numbers

2012 witnessed 22 days of strike, the last one on the year end.   8% is the service tax that Katra Municipal Committee is deducting from...

Briefing

UDHAMPUR Ever since NC started using defamatory suits as a tool to force silence on its opponents, nowhere did it impact so swiftly. Last week,...

News Notes

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...
Atir Ahmed Dar

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...
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,

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...

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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...