September 01 A Kashmir based journalist Asif Sultan who works for Kashmir Narrator and has been under Police custody for the past six days has been booked in a Militancy case. Sources told The Kashmiriyat that the journalist was arrested from his home during a nocturnal raid and his phone, laptop were also siezed by […]
August 01 The Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday wondered if the situation in Jammu Kashmir had deteriorated so much that the government was afraid of allowing any foreign correspondents to report freely from the state. Annie Gowen, the India bureau chief of Washington Post, tweeted on Tuesday that she was in Kashmir for […]
July 18 In order to tackle the unrest in Jammu Kashmir, the state Governor has ordered the closure of 30 Pakistani and Islamic channels from cable operators of the Valley. These channels have been banned in the instructions issued by the Home Department. The Department said that these channels are in danger of peace and […]
Lying here, in the corner of this street, next to the busy road, I have seen harsh winter freezing the water pipes, icicles hanging from tree tops, children laughing at each other when they stumble while trying to balance themselves on the frozen ice that covers the roads, and in spring, the town looks like […]
July 06 In a major breakthrough in the investigation to the murder of Bangalore based journalist Gauri Lankesh, the SIT probing the case suspects that four top-level leaders of a pro-Hindutva outfit were the ones who conceived the plot to kill her and other rationalists. The outfit is asserted to be the extremist cult known […]
June 27 “Two of the attackers were from South Kashmir while one was a Pakistani national,” the Jammu Kashmir Police has said as per a report published on Indian Express. The Pakistani Militant involved in the killing is Naveed Jutt and he was assassinated after a defamation campaign run allegedly by a Kashmiri blogger now […]