SRINAGAR: She has won five national gold medals in martial arts and is all set to represent India in Bangladesh during December. Muntaha Jan is a Srinagar native who has brought laurels to her family and the country. Not only this, she also runs an initiative that strives for women empowerment named ‘khatoon’ (means ‘lady’ […]
SRINAGAR: To a common man, all that attracts and binds to a place is the opportunity it provides. And when you have a country as big as India, that would mean any part of the country is home, irrespective of regional divide. Unfazed by the recent attacks on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir, the settlers from […]
SRINAGAR: Union home minister Amit Shah, in the last leg of his visit to Jammu and Kashmir, paid homage to martyrs of Pulwama attack and launched schemes for women entrepreneurs and tribals, culminating his three-day visit to Jammu & Kashmir where he launched a host of schemes and met representatives of civil society along with […]
SRINAGAR: Union Home minister Amit Shah, in his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir in two years, drove straight to meet the family of a police officer killed by terrorists after arriving here in the morning. The home minister is on a 3-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir. This is his first visit since J&K’s […]
NEW DELHI: India has a reason to celebrate. The country today achieved a historic 100 crore Covid-19 vaccination-mark, further strengthening our fight against the pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and expressed gratitude to doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who helped India achieve the historic 100 crore […]
Vikram Sood is former head of India’s foreign intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). Apart from his expertise in espionage, he has written two books – The Unending Game and The Ultimate Goal. Both the books are phenomenal as they deal with complex topic such as espionage with great ease and a crisp […]
Vikram Sood is former head of India’s foreign intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). Apart from his expertise in espionage, he has written two books – Unending Game and Ultimate Goa. Both the books are phenomenal as they deal with complex topic such as espionage with great ease and a crisp narrative. In […]
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti had given pro-Pakistan separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s grandson a government job by breaching all official rules and procedure in 2016, top sources said. The Jammu & Kashmir administration on Saturday terminated services of pro-Pakistan separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s grandson Anees Ul Islam from […]
Historian, author, Vikram Sampath, brought about a paradigm shift in the thinking about historical figures, with his book on Veer Savarkar — ‘Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten past’. And now with his second volume on Savarkar — ‘Savarkar: A contested Legacy’, Sampath has brought a closure to the biggest controversial question on the man himself […]
SRINAGAR: Supinder Kour’s children are numb and her other family members inconsolable. Principal of Government Higher Secondary School, Eidgah in Srinagar, Kour was shot dead along with a non-Kashmiri Hindu teacher, Deepak Chand, last week. Speaking to The New Indian, acquaintances and other mourners at her house in Aloochi Bagh, Srinagar, said that Supinder and Deepak were […]