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Sunday, May 19, 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

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SRINAGAR It is not only the common man who is suffering from the acute power outages in Kashmir’s summer capital but the business community too...

NISHAT The 53-year-old Aussie ultra marathon runner Pat Farmer took 64 days to complete his 4600 kms Spirit of India Run from Kanyakumari to Kashmir....

News Notes

Army’s Take Amid assertions by the J&K Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed that his government was committed to ensure revocation of controversial Armed Forces Special...

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BIRMINGHAM UK and Pakistan are toying with the idea of launching a bus between Mirpur (PaK) and Birmingham, a route that Kashmiri settlers took in...

News Makers

BOOKED: The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) has booked top brass of IRCON International Limited and at least 15 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in two major...

The Healthy INFORMERS

Strife has led to the rise of a huge breed of whistle-blowers in Kashmir. Barring the anti-corruption whistle-blowers almost every other informer is making...

Newsmakers

ARRESTED: Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was detained by police at the Srinagar airport and put under house arrest soon after his arrival...

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BARAMULLA A day after an encounter on Thursday, state police chief Dilbagh Singh termed Baramulla as the first ‘militant-free’ district of Kashmir. During the day,...

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  CONFLICT KIDS: These frozen frames were the most striking of the pictures hot in 2017. While in two cases (right and left), the infants...

News Notes

Wamiq’s Justice Parents of Wamiq Farooq, a teenager who was killed in 2010 mass unrest in Kashmir, still wait for justice after a gap of...

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BATMURRAN In last two weeks, the pictures of two toddlers who lost their mothers to stray bullets sent social-media into instant mourning. The first...

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DELHI The latest on the rail front is that the Union Tourism Ministry has approved the idea of purchasing panoramic-view coaches for the Qazigund-Baramulla rail....

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DAL LAKE Kashmiri Pandits are back, this time in a celebration mode! The trend of high profile weddings in Kashmir is picking up but what...

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ZIMBABWE First Kashmiri cricketer in Team India Parvez Rasool was kept busy on benches as the team won the five one-day series. It triggered a...

News Notes

Firing Zones Army has run out of firing ranges in Jammu and Kashmir as a re-notification of 10 field firing ranges is pending with...