Suhail Dar The Kashmir valley in 2018 was gripped by deadly violence as the toll of deaths of civilians, Militants, and Government Forces kept on rising and it tarnished thousands of lives, many mothers losing their sole bread-earning sons and many fathers shouldering the coffin of their young sons. The raging violence has cut short […]
Irshad Hussain/ Jaskamal Bains On Monday, scores of residents from south Kashmir’s Kakapora Oukhoo, the Pencil village of Kashmir staged a protest, in Srinagar’s Press Enclave against the transfer of their land for the construction of CRPF camp in their village. Srinagar’s Press Enclave reverberated with the slogans “We Want Justice” and “End Oppression.” Almost […]
“Gifted it to my daughter”- Father of four children writes Quran-Sharif by hand in nine months in Kashmir valley Bhat Yasir Rayees Ahmed Khan, a pharmacy owner, is a resident of Tangdhar Karnah – a border area of the Kashmir valley, approximately 150 kilometers away from Srinagar. Rayees said that he developed an interest in […]
Jaskamal Bains During the onset of protests against Hyderpora civilian killings, a picture of Advocate Amreen participating in the sit-in protest organized by the Bar Association, Anantnag, went viral over social media. Adv. Amreen, also a member of the Bar Association, Anantnag, was seen holding a placard reading ‘We want justice for my brother Imran […]
Mohammad Yaseen Malik The recent data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) revealed that Jammu Kashmir has recorded a 15% increase in cognisable crimes in 2020 as compared to 2019. Cases of women being subjected to eve-teasing and stalking may have witnessed a sharp rise in the Kashmir valley, but we do not talk […]
Manan Shah “Autumn cannot be measured in days or hours. Autumn is a period of weather, a state of mind, a feeling in the blood and the bone” – Medford Mail Tribune, Oregon, August 30, 1954 Harud: Autumn- the fall, a season following the summer starts in September, first greeted by paddy fields turning pale […]
Bhat Yasir In June 2005, a gunman barged inside Lateef Magray’s house at Thatharka in Ramban’s Gool area and shot his cousin dead. The gunman also shot at Magray, who retaliated and hit the gunman on his head with a huge rock. The gunman named Yasir Bhat of Lashkar-e-Taiba died there, on the spot, Magray […]
Insha Mushtaq Dar In wake of the recent civilian killings at Hyderpora area of Central Kashmir’s Srinagar on Monday evening, the family members of Mohammad Altaf and Dr. Mudasir Gul have continued their protest despite extremely cold conditions at Press Enclave, Srinagar. The activists of the Jammu and Kashmir Youth National Conference (JKYNC) along with […]
Bhat Yasir On Monday evening, the Jammu Kashmir police claimed that an encounter had broken out between militants and the government forces in Hyderpora area of Srinagar city of central Kashmir, where 2 militants and a “militant associate” were killed. The next morning, however, it emerged that another “Over Ground Worker (O.G.W.)” was killed along […]
Bhat Yasir Winters are almost here and there has been an alarming spike in positive cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir. Since the past few days, positive cases are being continuously reported in three-digit numbers in the valley, raising concern among the people. The experts have blamed people for […]