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Saturday, July 25, 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

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...

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...