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Friday, April 26, 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

Newsmakers

DIRECTED: State High Court directed Crime Brach to register a case against Haq Nawaz Ahmed who has allegedly contracted marriage with a non Muslim...

M A Road

Last month, a leopard was found outside the residence of Chief Minister. This month a leopard cub was caught in the courtyard of his...

Civil Liberties, according to JKCSS

J&K Coalition of Civil Societies suggested 233 people were killed in 2011 including 56 civilians, 100 militants, 71 security men and six unidentified and...

BATAMALOO

Insurgents shot dead Bashir Ahmad Dar, 40. A ruling NC worker, Dar’s father Jamal Dar was assassinated by militants in 1995. He was block...

Newsmakers

DIRECTED: Justice Virender Singh, Justice J P Singh, Justice Hasnain Masoodi in a special bench of State High court extended the interim directions of...

No, Your EXCELLENCY

Omar Abdullah government has decided against obliging governor N N Vohra who had sought change in a “blatantly discriminating” clause of the Public Safety...

Newsmakers

ALLEGED: Even after completion of first unit of 11 MWs of Chutokhydroelectric Kargil is still in darkness. Hassan Khan, the MP alleges theconcerned agencies...

BANDIPORE

Politically sensitive Bandipore erupted last week when Congress state president Prof Saif ud Din Soz drove there with a high level delegation comprising ministers...

Strike against STRIKERS

Old city witnessed shutdown but with a different reason this time. It was against the people who generally enforce it- stone pelters. This was...

Newsmakers

ARRESTED: After one and a half years of investigation, three employees of Food Corporation of India (FCI) involved in the embezzlement of 40-50 truckloads...

DELHI

They had come to Kashmir festival to know about the Vale and being pampered to fly to Srinagar. But they returned laughing over the...

Mourning RESTRICTIONS

For the umpteenth year now, the Ashura mourning was crewed again. Two of the 10 days of formal mourning when the Shia Muslims come...

Newsmakers

MOVED: Home Ministry has moved union cabinet to deploy Rashtriya Rifles (RR) units in Naxal affected areas of Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Maharashtra for ‘static’...

SONAWAR

Last week, the small park facing Ram Munshibagh police station looked like a parking lot. There were scores of people trying to identify their...

The Other OPTION

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s idea of offering impunity to the central security forces in state’s routine penal code has angered people, parties and lawyers...