NEWSMAKERS
STARTED: Craft Development Institute, Srinagar has started a new innovative 2 year postgraduate course, master of Craft Management and Entrepreneurship, with an intake capacity...
Yatra Travails
The Central Forces left bitter taste again in local mouths when they allegedly went berserk and injured six Taxi drivers at Chandanwari, Pahalgam.
Eyewitness accounts...
Resigning Leaders
To strengthen the governance at grass root levels, Panchayat elections were held last year. It was after a gap of three decades that panchs...
CHAMLIYAL
It was a gathering of nearly 200 thousand people on either side of the International Border in Ramgarh sector to witness the day long...
Babus, Corruption and JUDICIARY
Judiciary swung into action this week with regard to corruption cases involving seasoned bureaucrats. Acting on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Division Bench of...
A Revealing Story
The J&K Police is the biggest villain for the Central Reserve Personnel Force (CRPF) deployed in the Valley according to a 23-page study -...
News Notes
Remembering TUFAIL
The trauma returned this week when Kashmir observed a shutdown to remember all the youth killed during 2010 civilian unrest. The tragedy...
BRIEFING
SRINAGAR
Justice Mahesh Mittal Kumar is the new Chief Justice of J&K High Court. Born in 1953, he graduated in law from Punjab University,...
Newsmakers
CLUBBED: Mohammed Akbar Lone, Speaker Legislative Assembly decided to club two relevant petitions filed by two groups of BJP. One group headed by Prof...
Newsmakers
HIRING: Department of posts, J&K circle, has decided to recruit 274 youth, 113 from Kashmir and 161 from Jammu as Grameen Dak Sewaks within...
Newsmakers
ELECTED: Mohammed Shahnawaz Chaudhary has been elected the President and Pranab Shagotra as the Vice President of J&K Youth Congress. Chaudhary bagged 1,555 votes...
Briefing
Now comes Bollywood boost. Katrina Kaif whose father is presumed to be a Kashmiri, would fly in for the first time to shoot for...
News Notes
Another COMMITTEE
Finally state government has constituted a Task Force headed by the Administrative Secretary, General Administration Department, to look into the circumstances leading...
Briefing
SIACHEN
An investigation is underway about the crashing of a Cheetah chopper over the Siachen glacier. Its pilot Major Chandrashekhar Singh (Hajipur, Patna) was killed...
News Makers
DETAINED: Five members of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS), a Delhi based organization, were detained for few hours for locking the main gate of...
