KASHMIR

ANANTNAG: As part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrating 75 years of India’s Independence, the District Administration Anantnag along with the Ministry of Power in association with National Hydro Power Company Limited (NHPC), Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) organized a concluding celebration of ‘Bijli Mahotsav’ at Government Degree College (Women), here on Saturday. The […]

KARGIL, LADAKH: Perhaps no family in Kargil attracts as much attention as Deols for they remind us of what our country stands for, Unity In Diversity.  Being the only Hindu family among the 1.7 lakh population of Kargil district, young Rishi Deol and his father Ravinder Nath, are proud of the town that is close […]

SRINAGAR: The Jammu-Srinagar and Srinagar-Leh highway were closed on Thursday after heavy rains triggered landslides at various places along the route while an alert has been issued in Chenab valley. The inclement weather conditions also lead to the suspension of the ongoing Amarnath Yatra. Due to heavy rains on Wednesday night, massive landslides blocked the […]

SRINAGAR: Union minister Smriti Irani will flag off a Tiranga rally of at least 300 bikers from the famous clock tower in Srinagar on Monday. The bike rally will culminate at Kargil War Memorial on July 26, marking the Vijay Diwas. Besides BJP national general secretary Tarun Chug, BJP Yuva Morcha president Tejasvi Surya and […]

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at nine locations in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar and Pulwama districts. The NIA arrested four persons and recovered 15 pistols in connection with the Chanapora Arms Recovery case. An NIA spokesperson here said that the agency carried out searches at nine locations in […]

Masih Alinejad is an Iranian-American journalist, author, and women’s rights activist. She released a book in 2018 called The Wind in My Hair that deals with her experiences growing up in Iran, where she writes girls “are raised to keep their heads low, to be unobtrusive as possible, and to be meek. In 2014, Alinejad […]

KULGAM: The sombre mood at Lone household is a stark reminder of the contrasting style of tragedy that perhaps had plagued many households in the valley. Two years back, the two daughters and a son wailed at the death of their brother, a terrorist Over Ground Worker, was killed by the security forces. On Tuesday, […]

SRINAGAR: A police officer lost his life in a terror attack in Srinagar on Tuesday evening while two others were wounded. Police said that terrorists, whose number is being ascertained, opened indiscriminate fire on a police naka party near GD Goenka School in the Lal Bazar area of Srinagar city on Tuesday evening. In the […]

SRINAGAR: In a major success ahead of the Amarnath Yatra two militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Monday. IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar termed the operation important as the encounter site is very close to the Amarnath yatra […]

SRINAGAR: Amid rising cases of the terror attacks on civilians, the security forces responded by neutralizing as many as 100 terrorists in the Kashmir valley so far this year. Among the terrorists neutralized, 30 were Pakistani nationals, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Zone, Vijay Kumar said. On Sunday security forces eliminated four terrorists in two […]