Pass or fail
Social networking site Facebook may have gained popularity in Kashmir by youth resorting to anti-state discourse, but this week it made news for a...
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KILLED: In 5,053 road accidents 889 people were killed and 7,178 injured in the state in 11 months up to November 2010. However, during...
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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...
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DIED: Mohammad Hussain Khan died of brain haemorrhage two months after his two sons Altaf Hussain, 35, and Abid Ahmad, 25, were murdered in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
