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Monday, May 18, 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

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...

Newsmakers

DEAD: Satpal Sahini (1922-2010), journalist who became DG Information and drafted Dr Farooq Abdullah’s book ‘My Dismissal’ died at 88. Son of settlers from...

Newsmakers

LIFTED: Finally the police lifted curfew of Palhalan (Pattan) after 29 days. Some of the restrictions continue but the students were permitted to go...

Newsmakers

PAID: The first assignment that J&K Bank’s new chairman Mushtaq Ahmad found for himself was to present Rs 56.70 crores cheque to the chief...

Newsmakers

Beaten up:  Police on Friday beat up senior journalists, Mehrajudin of Associated Press TV and Mufti Islah of CNN-IBN near Bhagt Chowk in Srinagar....

Video puts police in spot

Plagued by the widespread condemnation on executing a spree of killings in Kashmir Valley, the police and paramilitaries are again in a spot for...

Newsmakers

BOOKED: After over three months hunt, the police finally detained female separatist leader Asiya Andrabi along with her aide Sofi Fehmeeda. She was found...

Newsmakers

HOPEFUL:  After 64 deaths in the Kashmir unrest Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that government is hopeful of finding a “starting point” in...

Newsmakers

POSTPONED: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had no option but to postpone the meeting of the Unified Headquarters slated for Friday evening as nobody turned...

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KILLED: Police and paramilitary killed three more people, and injured over 70 by firing on protest in Sopore, Pattan,  and other places.  Authorities swiftly...

Newsmakers

BLOCKED: Justice JP Singh of Jammu & Kashmir High Court stayed the selection of Safina Gul, daughter of chief minister’s adviser Mubarak Gul for...

Newsmakers

REPRIMANDED: Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand flew to Delhi early morning after cancelling his engagements for a pre-noon meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi....

Amarnath heats up

As the countdown begins for the annual Amarnath yatra in the state, noises around the pilgrimage have begun to re-emerge. From the smaller concerns...

Newsmakers

PLANNED: Panchayat elections will be held in October after almost a decade in J&K. Such elections were last held in early 2001, after a...