KASHMIR

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, […]

Srinagar: The Army, once referred to as an occupational force by the Kashmiri locals, has become a part of daily life in Kashmir today. It is welcomed and loved by all Kashmiri people now. Even the people of Sopore, once known as the so-called Chota Pakistan and home town of late pro-Pakistan separatist leader Syed […]

Two jawans of army were killed in action and a terrorist was gunned down in an anti-terrorist operation in Shopian district of South Kashmir.  The two jawans who laid down their lives while fighting the terrorists, are from 1 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and have been identified as Santosh Yadav and Romit Chohan. Preliminary reports identified the […]

Kashmir was once again rocked by yet another shocking case of acid attack on a young Kashmiri girl by a Kashmiri man. The man was angry at the girl for spurning his advances. The girl is admitted to the hospital in a grievously injured condition and is fighting for her life. What is alarming is […]

SRINAGAR: Aroosa Parvaiz, the class 12 topper of Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, is being virulently trolled by a section of people after her picture, in which she’s not wearing hijab, appeared on the Internet. Her picture was taken after she was declared the topper by the Board. What meant to be a […]

SRINAGAR: Two months after Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) booked separatist-turned-terrorist Zafar Akbar Bhat in a case of selling of MBBS seats in Pakistan, his brother Altaf Bhat is booked by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a huge graft case. The FIA has filed a graft case against Altaf and 17 others […]