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Friday, March 29, 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

NEW YORK

Suggesting Kashmir’s demilitarisation is a must for the right to self-determination, author Arundhati Roy terms AFSPA as “the absolutely unbelievable law”. Participating in a...

Newsmakers

ADMINISTERED: GhulamHasnainMasoodi took oath in the High Court complex to serve as Additional Judge of the State High court for another year. The oath...

Cyber POLICING

The latest on the virtual world is that J&K will have three cyber police stations. State police chief Kuldeep Khoda announced that one each...

Newsmakers

PLANNING: State Information Commission (SIC) is planning to penalize Public Information Officer (PIO) for not providing the information to Raman Sharma about land grabbing...

DELHI

Dr Farooq  Abdullah, a minister in the union cabinet inaugurated ‘The Splendour of Kashmir’, an exhibition of exclusive Kashmiri shawls at Delhi’s Claridges Hotel....

Geelani’s HOMECOMING

His brother’s death fetched him a chance to move out of his Hyderpora residence. On Thursday when Syed Ali Geelani was on his way back to Srinagar, he decided to have a public meeting in Sopore.

Sustaining GROWTH

of the quantum of profits it nets quarter after quarter, what is remarkable in the latest results of J&K Bank, the state’s lone listed...

SONAWAR

Acting swiftly on an 8-minute Facebook video showing some youth being baptized by a Christian priest Chander Mani Khanna, the police registered a case...

Newsmakers

CHANGED: Trans-LoC bus will ply on Monday and not Thursday as per the decision taken by the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan. PUNISHED: Rattan...

Landed ACROSS

An Army Aviation Corps chopper was forced to land by Pakistan in Skardu on the other side of the LoC after it strayed to...

GURU BAZAAR

Farooq Ahmad Dar who is much known as Bitta Karatey has finally tied the nuptial knots. His heart throb is a young 2009 batch...

Newsmakers

VISITED: Ajit Kumar, Cabinet Secretary visited Kashmir and discussed issues of implementation of ongoing flagship development programmes and welfare schemes with governor, chief minister...

MUMBAI

Imtiaz Ali will profile the Kashmiri Pandit wedding rituals in his forthcoming release Rockstar. He has shot the rituals and traditions after proper research...

Newsmakers

DIED: Prof Fehmida Javaid, 66,a retired Principal of College of Education Srinagar passed away after prolonged illness. She had respiratory problems. She is survived...

A Changed PSA

Last week, the cabinet approved five amendments in the J&K Public Safety Act, a law many think is ruthless and misused. The changed PSA...