Kickbacks and backtracks
PDP lawmaker Nizamuddin Bhat surprised the legislative assembly this week by apologising for the allegations of kickbacks in Rattle project he made against Chief...
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REVEALED: The government has revealed that it has not signed any formal MOUs for construction of Salal, Dul Hasti and Uri-I power projects. It...
Women forum
The interlocutors on Kashmir organized a women’s’ conference in Srinagar to understand their viewpoint. The conference, a brainchild of Radha Kumar - the only...
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AWARDED: Showkat Nanda, a young photojournalist from north Kashmir’s Baramulla town won the prestigious National Press Photo Award 2011 organized by the Media Foundation...
Caught on camera
Major Avtar Singh, a former soldier wanted in the disappearance and murder case of lawyer and rights actvisit Jalil Andrabi besides ten others has...
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ARRESTED: Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was detained by police at the Srinagar airport and put under house arrest soon after his arrival...
Cheated by the DoB
The government has suddenly woken to the problem of altered or tampered date of birth of in service officers. While a top police officer...
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ROADMAP: New Delhi’s interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir will submit a document containing the contours of a political settlement of Kashmir issue to the...
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DECIDED: The government has decided to impose Public Safety Act (PSA) against the land grabbers if they do not vacate the encroached state lands....
Red and Green
Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti stirred a controversy when she gave a Powerpoint presentation at her press conference, and displayed a state map...
Unwanted in India
Continuing their attacks on Kashmiri separatist leaders, rightwing Hindu activists attacked Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik in Ajmer with stones and shoes...
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KILLED: People held massive protests in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district after troopers of 4 Para who had laid an ambush, shot dead 22-year-old Manzoor...
Scoring a Condemnation
Unidentified gunmen abducted and later killed two sisters in north Kashmir’s Sopore town early this week. Arifa and Akhter were killed at Takia Bal...
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ACQUITTED: The Sessions Court Kupwara has acquitted all the four surviving accused in twin murder case of the former state home minister Mushtaq Ahmad...
Belated commissioner
After a long long wait, J&K which was the first state to pass of right to information act at a time when the central...
