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Pushed BACK
Another Pak returnee militant was pushed back by army while trying to enter into the Indian territory near the Line of Control (LoC)...
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APPROVED: State cabinet agreed to enhance the power generation capacity of Ratle Hydro-Electric Project from 690 MW to 850 MW and also agreed to...
Briefing
NOWGAM
Two workers of the Silver Star hotel on Srinagar bypass were killed and another injured in an attack that even Chief Minister Omar Abdullah...
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A Windfall AGAIN
The ‘princely’ lawmakers of the ‘princely state’ will be wealthier now! Gone are the days when they were seen in white ambassador...
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SURRENDERED: Following income tax surveys, a family having luxurious hotel and three jewelry shops in Ramban surrendered about Rs 10.85 crore undisclosed income on...
Briefing
MUMBAI
J&K Bank, state’s only listed company, is working towards a business target of Rs 1,00,000 crore and Rs 1,000 crore profit in 2013, its...
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Geelani’s Another VOLUME
The Hurriyat (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geeelani, was offered the prime ministership of Jammu and Kashmir by New Delhi during his...
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DIED: Prof Muhammed Abdullah Shaida, 82, the founder member of Jama’at-e-Islami, passed away on the intervening night of October 7-8 at his residence in...
BRIEFING
KANYAKUMARI
For decades now, the Border Road signposts have been saying: ‘From Kanyakumari to Kashmir, India is one.’ Nobody knows how long it is. But...
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Blocking FACEBOOK
It was done to prevent the people from watching an anti-Islam film, but when the state home department invoked the powers under section...
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REFUSED: Family members of Pathribal fake encounter victims not expecting much from the court martial of the accused army personnel and having apprehensions about...
Briefing
RAJOURI
Bizarre it is. In Sunderbani’s remote Kuldabi village, a four-year-old boy, Shubam Sharma, was strangulated by his father, Raj Kumar alias Raju Baba during...
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ZANSKAR conversions
Tension mounted in Zanskar region of Kargil district, when more than two dozen Buddhists converted to Islam last week amid sharp criticism from...
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DIED: Aisha Begum, 75, mother of Afzal Guru passed away at her residence, Doabgaw, Sopore. She was laid to rest at her ancestral graveyard...
BRIEFING
BIRMINGHAM
UK and Pakistan are toying with the idea of launching a bus between Mirpur (PaK) and Birmingham, a route that Kashmiri settlers took in...
