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...
Newsmakers
RANSACKED: Hooligans barged into Kashmir Life office Thursday evening after breaking the entrance door and thrashed the staff and smashed furniture and office equipment. The assailants, who turned out to be JKLF activists, were lead by one Zulfikar Majid, a scribe. They beat up everybody present in the office resulting in serious injuries to one of our staff, who has admitted in SKIMS, Soura.
DD
Some officials in Jammu and Kashmir are more powerful than the constitutional head of the state, plainly due to the blessings of the corridors...
Newsmakers
DEADLINE: The J&K High Court has set a deadline of July 31, 2010, for all its judges including Chief Justice to declare their assets...
Eagle dropped
A family in interior Srinagar reportedly got an unusual bird dropping, last week when an eagle sat on their roof to relish its catch....
Newsmakers
STAGED: JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik along with other party leaders sat on a one-day hunger strike at Nadihal chowk in north Kashmir to...
Now, Bird Detentions
For all these years, the security grid was supposed to guard a border in J&K that was neither well defined nor visible. After using...
Newsmakers
PROBE: The state government has ordered a magisterial probe into alleged fake encounter killing three youth from Nadihal Rafiabad near the Loc on April...
Newsmakers
PETITIONED: Doda contractors association has petitioned Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi seeking action against R&B Minister G M Saroori for his alleged “scandals”. Before...
News Notes
Creditable earnings
There was a time when bankers said they cannot invest in Kashmir because of situation and lack of credit absorption capacity. Circa 2010...
Newsmakers
SELLING: At various places in Kathua on Jammu-Pathankot highway, some people are selling water for Rs 10 to Rs 20 per bucket. Given the...
Newsmakers
DIED: Prof Phulara Nayak, a retired professor of philosophy of Bubhaneshwar Orissa, who has translated a number of Kashmiri folk tales into Oriya, passed...
Recap of The Week
TAUGHT: Union Minister and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah passed ‘tips of good governance’ to chief minister Omar Abdullah, party ministers and legislators at party headquarters in Srinagar. Abdullah asked ministers, district presidents and block presidents of the party to keep close eye on the workers of main opposition and leave “sleeping habits” to ensure that party wins majority of seats in upcoming civic and panchayat polls, media reports quoting a senior NC minister said.
