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Friday, July 3, 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

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...

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...