KASHMIR

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 […]

NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Thursday met the family members of slain Kashmiri Pandits Rajni Bala and Rahul Bhat. She also said that Sena is committed to speaking for them and demanded security for those who are working in the valley. Chaturvedi, who is also the spokesperson of the Shiv […]

SRINAGAR: In another targeted attack on the minority Hindu community in the valley, terrorists shot dead a community school teacher in the Kulgam district of South Kashmir. The slain teacher has been identified as Rajni Bala, wife of Raj Kumar, a resident of Samba in Jammu. The 36-year-old teacher was posted at the Government High […]

SRINAGAR: Four terrorists were killed in two anti-terror operations in southern Kashmir during the last 24 hours. It is believed that the terrorists were responsible for the killing of a policeman earlier this month. On Sunday evening, a joint team of Jammu and Kashmir Police, 55 RR and paramilitary CRPF cordoned off Gundipora village of […]

  In the 12th episode of REASON, The New Indian show hosted by Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo, senior journalist and author David Devadas, who has extensively covered Kashmir, discusses Pak-sponsored terrorism, “ethnic cleansing” of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley, and the importance of Vivek Agnihotri’s movie ‘Kashmir Files’. Devadas is the author of the critically-acclaimed book In […]