KASHMIR

  SRINAGAR: A high-level delegation of businessmen from Gulf countries along with Indian businessmen arrived in Srinagar on Sunday evening for a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir. The delegation members will be holding a meeting with the Industries Department and exploring business opportunities during their stay in the Valley, officials said here. “Bal Krishen […]

KUPWARA (J&K): The victims of the 1991 alleged mass rape in Kunan-Poshpora villages in north Kashmir’s Kupwara were “used by a nexus through a fake narrative”, a top Army officer posted in the Valley said on Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of an event here, General Officer Commanding (GoC) of Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lt General […]

BUDGAM (J&K): 19-year-old Shah Huzaib, whose crazy trick shots have made him a football sensation on the internet in Kashmir, says he wants to train the youth of Jammu and Kashmir and make trick shots popular across India. Son of a fruit businessman, Huzaib, a resident of Chari-e-Sharief of Central Kashmir’s Budgam, says the government […]

SRINAGAR: An officer of the Indian Army lost his life in a helicopter crash Gurez area of Bandipora district in North Kashmir on Friday afternoon, officials said. The Cheetah helicopter of the Army was on a routine mission to evacuate an ailing soldier from a forward post, officials said. “The helicopter lost communication contact with […]

NEW DELHI: Scott Perry, W. Gregory Steube and Mary E. Miller, three  Republican members of the US Congress, on March 9, have addressed a letter to Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States, Department of Justice to investigate terror links with Masood Khan, Pakistan’s newly appointed Ambassador to the US, a letter The New […]

JAMMU: One person was killed and 13 others were injured, including six critically injured, in an IED blast outside the district court complex in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. Official told The New Indian that the explosive was placed under a ‘rehri’ (hardcart) at Salathia Chowk near the Tehsildar office of the district. Additional […]

It is not easy to write about movies or books which bare one’s bottled-up horrors and agony. But then, that is the strength of Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’. It has made me, a displaced Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu), to own it, to call it my story. And that is no small feat.  For the […]

SRINAGAR: Stating that Delimitation Commission’s fresh proposal has increased alienation in Union Territory, National Conference president and Member Parliament Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said his party will fight elections in any case and it is too premature to say whether People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) will go for polls together. Dr Abdullah said this […]

Srinagar: Two terrorists of proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba and a civilian were killed in Shopian south Kashmir encounter on Friday, Inspector General of Police Kashmir (Zone) Vijay Kumar said. IGP said that civilian had given shelter to the terrorists and they later shot him dead. The encounter broke out in Amshipora village of Shopian after […]

Srinagar: A day after Union Home Minister, Amit Shah announced that Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held within six to eight months after completion of the Delimitation Commission exercise, central government gave two month extension to panel on Tuesday. “In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Delimitation Act, […]