Remembering Shopian

Too deep a wound to be healed in two years of separation

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

Exactly two years back Kashmir witnessed a tragedy which still struggles to find a name. How did that happen? If that was what it was perceived to be, who were the perpetrators of the crime? If all such cases are taken up on a professional ground, why the conclusion of this particular case couldn More
Musings of a Permanent Non-State Subject

Living here is undoubtedly a huge challenge and for more reasons than usually debated

MY TAKE By Carin Jodha Fischer

This winter it will be five years since I arrived in Kashmir as an unsuspecting tourist. It has been almost four years since I decided to make it my home. No decision has ever changed me or my life as profoundly.  It is impossible to describe the sum total of my experiences in the Valley More
Majboor As I Knew Him

TRIBUTE

Arvind Gigoo narrates his experiences with a poet called Arjan Dev Majboor

1991. Udhampur. I am walking on the road. My friend Vijay Zutshi introduces me to a tall, smart, well-dressed and clean-shaven man: ‘Arjan Dev Majboor…..a poet.’ The man smiles. He is affectionate. We sit in a roadside tea shop. Majboor talks about his poetry. I listen. He is a good talker. Then we More
  • Kashmir

Shopian tragedy anniversary today

Organize special prayers for victims on May 29-30: Geelani

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 28: Paying homage to the victims of Shopian tragedy, Aasiya and Neelofar, on their second death anniversary on Sunday, the chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani, on Saturday More


  • Srinagar City

FIRE AT GOVT PRESS

STORE HOUSE GUTTED, LIBRARY SAFE

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, May 28: A Government Press store housing printing papers worth lakhs of rupees was gutted Saturday morning. No one was hurt in the incident, police said adding the cause of fire is being ascertained More



  • Jammu

12th phase of Panchayat polls today

Jammu, May 28: Polling in the 12th phase of ongoing Panchayat elections would be held in nine blocks of seven districts on Sunday.  Nine blocks, include Baramulla of Barmulla district, Kakapora of More


  • Briefs

Duo arrested for stone-pelting

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, May 28: Police on Saturday said that it arrested two youth in south Kashmir's Islamabad (Anantnag)  district on the charges of stone-pelting. A police spokesman identified the accused More


  • Business

`2,000 cr target for handicraft export fixed

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 28: Minister for Industries and Commerce, S S Salathia today said the government has ambitious target to double the exports of handloom and handicraft items this fiscal from Rs 1,000 crore More


  • News

Stable Pak in India’s interest: PM

INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

On board Air India One, May 28: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that a “strong, stable and peaceful Pakistan” was in the interest of India."Let me say that what happens in our neighbourhood More


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