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...
Newsmakers
ARRESTED: After one and a half years of investigation, three employees of Food Corporation of India (FCI) involved in the embezzlement of 40-50 truckloads...
DELHI
They had come to Kashmir festival to know about the Vale and being pampered to fly to Srinagar. But they returned laughing over the...
Mourning RESTRICTIONS
For the umpteenth year now, the Ashura mourning was crewed again. Two of the 10 days of formal mourning when the Shia Muslims come...
Newsmakers
MOVED: Home Ministry has moved union cabinet to deploy Rashtriya Rifles (RR) units in Naxal affected areas of Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Maharashtra for ‘static’...
SONAWAR
Last week, the small park facing Ram Munshibagh police station looked like a parking lot. There were scores of people trying to identify their...
The Other OPTION
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s idea of offering impunity to the central security forces in state’s routine penal code has angered people, parties and lawyers...
JAMMU
President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil is visiting J&K. She arrived on Thursday and will be in the state till Sunday. In addition to having...
Newsmakers
ETIRED: Zaffar Iqbal Manhas, who served the government in several positions for the past 30 years retired as Secretary J&K Academy of Art, Culture...
New LEADERSHIP
Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has a new leadership. In elections held early this month, it was the senior vice president Abdul...
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...
