While the Central University in Kashmir is mired in land acquisition problems, its counterpart in Jammu is in a deeper…
Although losing popularity, pigeon flying or Kabootar Baazi is still an obsession for some. Aliya Bashir reports about the hobby…
state’s only duck farm with a rearing capacity of 11000 birds is under army occupation, with the government and troops…
A drawing room display of the rich, aquariums are finding their use a s effective stress busters. Aliya Bashir reports.…
About four thousand dog bite cases were referred to SMHS hospital last year alone. The situation in districts is similarly…
After being denied permission to visit J&K consistently in the last two decades, international watchdog Amnesty International has shifted its…
Shuttling the capital between Srinagar and Jammu is an old tradition and expensive too. Doing away with the practice will…
Arbitrary service extensions to retiring doctors at SKIMS are irking the faculty, who want the administration to put a stop to the practice. Aliya Bashir reports.
For the houseboat owners in Dal Lake, tourists are business and hope. But sometimes tourists not just take along memories,…
A mysterious writer’s book on top separatist Syed Ali Geelani has pitted him against his parent organisation, Jamaat-e-Islami, again, widening the dove-hawk divide in the party. Kashmir Life reports.
This is not the first time that there is a cold war between Jamaat-e-Islami and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, perhaps the most recognized political face it produced since it was founded in 1946 in J&K. His inflexibility on issues not only prevented him from becoming the president of Jamaat but, off late, consolidated the dove-hawk divide in the party, especially in the last two decades.
The row over the book ‘Qaid-e-Inqilab, Ek Tarikh Ek Tehreek’ by Dr Shafi Shariati, finally, seems to cement the divide, Geelani and the Jamaat have lately seen. Taking strong exception to the portrayal of Jamaat in the book, the party suspended Geelani, the protagonist of the book from the basic membership of the party.
Few documents have recorded the human rights abuse in Kashmir over the past 20 years. Even few have questioned the…
US interrogators questioned militants captured in Kashmir by Indian troopers in 90s, a declassified document of the Central Investigation Agency (CIA) reveals. The top secret report prepared by the federal intelligence agency in 1996 and declassified in 2004 is now available on the CIA website www.foia.cia.gov.
