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...
Newsmakers
PLANNING: State Information Commission (SIC) is planning to penalize Public Information Officer (PIO) for not providing the information to Raman Sharma about land grabbing...
DELHI
Dr Farooq Abdullah, a minister in the union cabinet inaugurated ‘The Splendour of Kashmir’, an exhibition of exclusive Kashmiri shawls at Delhi’s Claridges Hotel....
Geelani’s HOMECOMING
His brother’s death fetched him a chance to move out of his Hyderpora residence. On Thursday when Syed Ali Geelani was on his way back to Srinagar, he decided to have a public meeting in Sopore.
