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Friday, July 3, 2026
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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

CHARRED: Chamial Singh, 30, his wife Sunita Devi, 26, daughter Sharmila, 6, and son Mohinder, 4 residents of Ligri, Kishtwar were killed and six...

DAL LAKE

Kashmir is shivering under the lowest temperatures in last 16 years. But that has not dispirited the Vale. As parts of the Dal lake...

The Milk CONTROVERSY

A recent survey on milk adulteration by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) claiming 83 percent of milk consumed in J&K as...

Newsmakers

ARRESTED: Parveen Shangloo, a senior manager of Punjab National bank, Reasi branch was arrested by a CBI team for allegedly accepting Rs 10,000 from...

SRINAGAR

Certain career options like Company Secretaries and Chartered Accountants are still Greek to Kashmir. Kashmir has only 10 CSs and only 15 CAs. Jammu...

Snow KILLS

Media ridiculed the government for getting buried under two inches of snowfall. Even it killed people. In separate incidents linked to winter, five persons...

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...