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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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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

STAYED: The High Court has stayed the trial court proceedings in Machil fake encounter case in which three innocent civilians were killed and passed...

Back to the pulpit

Two days after IG Police S M Sahai defended the siege of Jamia Masjid saying that nobody would be allowed to preach politics at...

Newsmakers

DIED: Mohammad Hussain Khan died of brain haemorrhage two months after his two sons Altaf Hussain, 35, and Abid Ahmad, 25, were murdered in...

Newsmakers

RECORD: Trans-LoC trade that started in October 2008, created a record in Poonch as well as in Uri this week. While the total turnover...

‘Influential Indian’

How influential is the Hurriyat (G) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. In Kashmir, he may make it to the top in a list of...

Azadi from Kashmir

Congress leader Sham Lal Sharma, who is the State’s Health minister stirred a controversy this week by suggesting trifurcation for Jammu and Kashmir and...

Newsmakers

REVEALED: Kashmir’s major newspaper Greater Kashmir revealed a senior minister has grabbed 40.7 kanals of land in ecologically fragile Sedow village of Shopian. The...

Newsmakers

BOOKED: Separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani and author Arundhati Roy besides five others including Kashmir University professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain were finally booked for...

Stifling voices of Kashmir

The attack on Mirwaiz Umar Farooq at a seminar in Chandigarh is third recent attack on a Kashmiri separatist outside Valley. Observers say the...

Newsmakers

RETURNED: Mohammad Shaheen, a school teacher from Mansar in Samba, was detected alive shortly before he would be buried. He was injured in a...

Prayers Without The Preacher

For nine weeks, Friday prayers were not offered in the Jamia Masjid of Srinagar. Initially it was the curfew era and when it started relaxing, the authorities would impose it on Friday around the mosque.

Newsmakers

DIES: Mohammad Aarif Bhat, 14 passed away after struggling for life for a year. A resident of Haba Kadal, he was hit by a...

A Train By Air And Road

Efforts to extend the railway network to Kashmir have exposed the Indian Railways to a situation where they become innovative, gaining a lot of...

Newsmakers

PREVENTED: New Delhi has denied entry into India to Prof Richard Shapiro, an associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at the California Institute...

Trauma Plus

Tragedies visit J&K more often now. The latest was in Leh that was destroyed by flash floods triggered by a cloudburst. At...