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January 12 Shakeel Ahmed Dar, a resident of Chillipora in South Kashmir's Shopian District is likely the second Militant killed with Al Badr chief, Zeenat ul Islam in the encounter in Kulgam's Yaripora on Saturday evening. Shakeel Ahmad dar son of Ab Rashid Dar resident of Chillipora sugan area of south kashmir’s Shopian district has joined Militancy in July 2018 and was a Bsc student at Government Degree college in Pulwama. A known cricket lover and best wicket keeper batsman of the area, known for his long hair and driving bicycles with high speed likely the second Militant killed. ALSO READ: Kulgam Encounter- Zeenat ul Islam Likely Killed, Family Called by Forces Shakeel pursuing BSc at government degree college Pulwama left home on Wednesday evening without infor...

January 09 "Anyone who simply collects facts and sets them down is not a reporter. Unless you also weigh the evidence, you're not a journalist, you're a stenographer," writes Alan Sunderland.  Surely plagiarism is a problem, the bigger problem though, journalism in contemporary world faces is 'distortion of facts' and embedded journalism. In the former case, a person steals one's hard work, however in the case of 'Distortions' the encoder steals the right of the decoder to facts. It might not at all be obvious in postmodern society, but it is good to discern how vital the claim of truthfulness and authenticity is to journalism. Since their advent around 1610, newspapers have been claiming to represent the truth about the world to masses. To differentiate themselves from gossip, so...

January 11 Umar Fayaz After the dead have been buried and bullet holes plastered over, those left behind in a region ravaged by war are left to start their lives afresh. The post-war effects are visible not just in razed buildings and graveyards but also in adults whose livelihoods were taken from them and the children who never went to school. For the Kashmiri people, where conflict rears its ugly head every few years, this is a never ending cycle in which successive generations have all seen blood shed around in times punctuated by mortar fire which leaves them scurrying for cover. The Education sector is the mostly affected by this conflict. The unscheduled strikes,curfews and continued violence across the valley has caused many schools to go neglected. The conflict in the r...

January 11 Mehvish Mumtaz Instead of playing with toys during her childhood, Rafia Mukhtar would spend most of her times in household chores as she liked it. Due to some family issues, she spent six important years of her life away from her parents. Some months back, she wrote the book – a poetry collection ‘Her Castle of Dreams’. Rafia’s poems narrate: "a tumultuous journey of a girl until she becomes a woman; how a society misplaces the worth of a girl’s character and judges her on the basis of dogmatic and awry views. Through her book, she intends to help young girls understand how they can shape their lives and realize their dreams". ALSO READ: Meet Azmat Ali- Woman with a Mission to Save Kashmiri Culture Born in a middle-class family in Vessu Qazigund, in Islamabad district, Rafi...

January 11 One understands all a commotion within a soul when his decision though personal but all connected to ward off miseries of his Nation is put to a real acid test. To join or not to join any a political stream no more looks of any paramount consideration but the moot point is what type of reflex you carry and with what solutions your heart throbs for, can be a decisive factor, rest to go inside a crowd is same as Bakshi sahib's forty thousand figure and can be nothing different from day to day politics. A revolution calls for a dynamic change and it is not an over night job. It is a sustained pragmatic struggle and not ever closed to study even the changes of the hours. It never downplays the future of the Nation for the sake of individual interest or be for group benefits or be ...

January 10 Tawseef Nazir The Himalayan valley – Kashmir is now often gripped with silence, with coils of tangled wires blocking its alleys. Indian troops in battle gear rove the streets in this Himalayan valley of fabled beauty. The decades long conflict in the valley saw a volcanic eruption, the troubles visible in the valley today began in July 2016 when Indian forces killed three rebels in South Kashmir including the student turned rebel, Burhan Wani- the Valley has been on the edge since. In a paroxysm of Anti India Anger the residents- thousands at a time- defy restrictions to come out on the streets, raining stones at everything that symbolizes India in Kashmir. They fight pitched battles with armed forces, who respond with lethal force, as a result hundreds of civilians ...

January 09 Advocate Mujeeb u Rehman Yes, experimenting polarity and on turning it bizarre, Doctrines, the Doval one and others, the indomitable one and likewise met their fate of dehydration as no proper thread got picked up ever and so resultant of being pandemonium till date and as having disfigured situations even beyond recognition and expression. Commanders and the Commands born from 1990 showing no signs of fatigue on translated of this holding over on the ground be in one shape or the other as be containing the number of armed rebels or be engagements in number games in terms of operations, killings on either side on scanned within the prism of realism do make one to admit all the same  to born a gangrene as to "legitimacy of Dialogue." Siege and suffocation around as to fairnes...

January 08 Life is not always fair and it has its share of bends, both up and down, but then it is also about what you make out of it. It is up to one to choose the prism you want to look at life through and sometimes even the most hopeless situations turn cheerful, depending upon the way you look at life. A visually impaired boy diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (A disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision) at the age of 9 went on to become an assistant professor and set an inspirational example on how to make the most out of the helpless situations. Tariq Ahmad Bhat, a resident of a small village Undoo in South Kashmir's Islamabad (Anantnag) District was born with retinitis Pigmentosa. “The situation at that time appeared hopeless, I gave up my studies for eight years," Tar...

January 04 Advocate Mujeeb u Rehman Reading regulo in the valley of deaths spiraling out of control, Hell trembles to space out  as to  under which Head? to room this new class, a unique breed of people as all classes of Evil otherwise stand classified for their fate. Insecure, inconspicuous figure, persecuted the shrunk souls from Paradise on Earth, Kashmir overnight turned celebrity on their Manning and on being manned both day in and day out. Identity politics stand well crafted on the right chord.political necessities of exposing and highlighting injustice, atrocities and what not? got adopted. So, Emotions got as such successfully brain split with open reflexes spontaneous enough rich to kick off changes on ground and so we did witness since then the Daily terror of ...