Personality

Last week, Gyal P Wangyal was elected as the 4th Chief Executive Councillor (CEC) of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh. Wangyal is a councillor from Sakti constituency of Ladakh and a senior...

Last week, Tariq Ahmad Naikoo, a Kashmiri cab driver, was talk of the town. Reason? He returned a lost bag carrying cash and Jewellery worth Rs. 10 lakh to its rightful owner, a tourist. On...

Saavn ki barish mein tasveer jo humne kheenchi thi, Woh aaj bhi maray kamray mein deewar pe latakti rehti hai Nazir Ahmad wrote this Urdu couplet when he was an eighth class student. Now, Sagar Nazir,...

On June 12, the Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik addressed his maiden presser ever since he landed here to take charge of the government. He was appointed by the president Ram Nath...

Saturday, June 8, 2019 morning, rumours were rife that the government has a plan to effect changes in Jammu and Kashmir Bank. As the day passed, an otherwise bank holiday witnessed unusual movements in...

Taking advantage of the state of joblessness among youth in Jammu and Kashmir, an army man impersonating as a colonel, was running a job racket where he lured young people and then disbursing the...

On May 23, when the results started to come in BJP’s candidate for Udhampur constituency Dr Jitendra Singh shocked everyone by defeating his rival Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh by a huge margin of nearly...

In a bizarre turn of events, a Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) officer Sushil Attri was found dead, hanging inside his newly hired flat in Ansal Grace Apartments in Sainik Colony area on May 14. Sushil,...

In a major setback to BJP’s Ladakh unit local journalists alleged that senior politicians tried to bribe them just before the constituency went to polls on May 6. On May 02, BJP held a press...

On May 1, 2019, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) put Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar to its list of ‘global terrorists’ after China lifted its objections on a proposal to blacklist...

On April 21, the family members of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik called a hurriedly conveyed presser informing about his deteriorating health condition. Malik is in National Investigation Agency’s custody. Malik was...

In a significant move ahead of Lok Sabah polls in Anantnag constituency, former PDP MLA and Minister, Syed Bashir, who represented Rajpora, Pulwama, in state assembly joined Congress in Ghulam Nabi Azad’s presence. Syed Bashir...

On April 10, just two days ahead of parliamentary elections, Chanderkant Sharma, 50, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader was shot dead along with his PSO by the militants inside Kishtwar hospital. Sharma was...

Soon after the 2009 IAS topper Shah Faisal resigned from his services to float his own party, many followed the suit. Syed Tawqeer Ahmad, Principal Sessions’ judge Anantnag is one among them. He resigned...

As India is undergoing 17th Lok Sabha elections, the prime minister of India kicked-off his poll campaign from Jammu’s Akhnoor area where he played the Kashmir-versus-Jammu card and aimed his guns at the Congress,...