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Wednesday, July 1, 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

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LAUNCHED: Kashmir Times, Jammu based newspaper launched its Srinagar edition with senior journalist Mohammad Sayeed Malik as its Consulting Editor. The launch coincided with...

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PROFITTED: In the first three months ending June, J&K Bank pocketed a net profit of Rs. 117.05 crores. Its business turnover was at Rs...

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SNUBBED: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has snubbed state Congress leaders including Ghulam Nabi Azad for questioning “visible administrative inexperience” of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah....

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PREVENTED: Government prevented PDP president and leader of the opposition in J&K legislative assembly, Mehbooba Mufti, from visiting Baramulla. Mehbooba, along with a few...

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SHORTLISTED: Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night has been short-listed for the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award 2008 in the non-fiction category. Published by Random House, the book...

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KILLED: Senior JKLF activist Sher Khan was killed in PAK. He was abducted by unidentified persons a few days ago and his body was...

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VISITED: Former Chief Ministers, Dr Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad, who are cabinet ministers in federal government at Delhi visited Jammu. Both were...

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BANNED: After garlic and ginger, authorities have banned ‘export’ of coconuts and cardamom through the twin trading windows on LoC. The directions were implemented...

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APPOINTED: Congress’s crisis manager, Ghulam Nabi Azad, was appointed a minister by Dr Manmohan Singh. A Rajya Sabha member from J&K, he returns to...

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LISTED: Kashmir has been listed as the “largest militarized territorial dispute” of the planet by the Guinness world book of records. The record book...

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DISSOCIATED: Thupstan Chhewang, who heads Leh based Ladakh Union Territory Front (LUTF) – the new avatar of Ladakh Buddhist Association – has dissociated himself...

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SUSPENDED: The Election Commission has placed under suspension the services of Shahnawaz Bukhari, the returning officer of Hazrtabal by- election. The officer had upheld...

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REOPENED: Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, a body of non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits reopened three century old Sheetal Bhairav temple in Srinagar’s Habbakadal. Over 27 families...