Listening to Nabza Bano

Nabza Bano lost her three sons and her home to the conflict.

Majid Maqbool

Sixty-five-year-old Nabza Bano stands near a small cornfield where her three-storey house once stood in Sundbrari village, Kokernag in south Kashmir, about 85kms from Srinagar. Lost in a melancholic silence, she points out all that remains of her old home – a few burnt logs.She says two of her More
The child labourers of Drangbal

Chiseling stones by choice or forced by circumstances?

Imran Muzaffar

Sajad Ahmad Dar, a 14-year-old boy, sits all day long under an open corrugated tin-shed in Drangbal, Baramulla, chiseling jagged rocks, one after another. He continues to hammer the rocks till he polishes one. Wiping the sweat off his forehead, he takes a gulp of water and then starts doing it again More
  • Kashmir

Hurriyat (G) aghast at ban on screening of Ocean of Tears in KU

Srinagar, Dec 16: Terming the ban on screening of ‘Ocean of Tears’ in Kashmir University as “hypocrisy and unjustified”, Hurriyat Conference (G) has criticized the administration and said that move is More


  • Srinagar City

Violation of Food Safety Act goes unabated

SMC mute on sale of expired, substandard products

CONCERN

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Dec 16: In blatant violation of the Food Safety Act, sale of expired, substandard products and adulteration of milk is going on unabated in the summer capital in absence of regular monitoring More



  • Jammu

Omar seek support of corporate sector to JK Universities

SUMIT BHARGAV

Dhanore (Rajouri), Dec 16: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday said that corporate Sector of India should show interest in the development and growth of educational institutions in Jammu and Kashmir so More


  • South Asia

5 militants, 1 policeman killed in Pak gun battle

Attempt By Taliban To Storm Airforce Base In Peshawar

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Dec 16: A fierce gun battle between Pakistani security forces and militants holed up in a house on the outskirts of Peshawar left six people, including a policeman, dead today, hours after an More


  • World

Egypt 'narrowly backs' constitution in first round of vote

Cairo, Dec 16: Egyptians have narrowly backed an Islamist constitution in the first round of a referendum over the contentious draft, unofficial figures showed today, even as the opposition accused the More


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