Srinagar: In a shocking incident, two boys aged between 11 and 12 years sodomised two minor boys of age four and six in old city’s Tujgari Mohalla. According to the locals, the two little boys belonging to Sheikh Colony of Tujgari Mohalla had gone to pluck apricots from the nearby Haribat fort when they were way […]
On his just-concluded two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh parried a question whether New Delhi was ready to have a dialogue with the Hurriyat, and if yes, what would be its terms of reference? Instead Mr Singh chose to answer this important question in an indirect and hazy manner, […]
Srinagar: During the summer of 2008, when the popularity of the social media site Orkut was at its peak, 24-year-old Mehnaz Sidiqui, a girl from Pakistan’s economic hub Karachi, ventured into the virtual world and created an Orkut account. As time went by, she was enjoying her visits to the social media more and more. […]
Srinagar: At a time when Srinagar is struggle with frequent traffic jams due to narrow roads and other road bottlenecks, the government plans construct walkways and cycle track for along the Boulevard road. However, the irony is such that nobody knows where from the government will acquire the land space for the particular project. […]
Srinagar: A month after Hizbul Mujahideen Commander, Sameer Tiger, was killed in an encounter with government forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, his cousin, Zahid Nazir Bhat, has picked up the gun and joined militant ranks. Soon after becoming a militant, Nazir took to social media, and his picture, capturing him along with an Ak-47 […]
Srinagar: Defending his “right” to collect a pension from the state, former General Secretary and senior Hurriyat (G) leader, Ghulam Nabi Sumji, said some government agencies were raking up his pension issue in an effort to derail the talks offer made by Government of India (GOI). “As you know, the Government of India has […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has said the pro-freedom leadership was in no hurry to respond to Delhi’s assertions over dialogue and will discuss the matter in the coming days and after due deliberations. “I ask those who give us sermons about peace and development, which people in the world would not […]
By Faheem Jeelani Great creative pursuits have an inherent capacity in them to transcend the actual performance. Some of the most finest musical concerts in past couple of decades, like Guns n Roses’ ’92 Tokyo, wasn’t just about the music. It reached to a folklore stage where the color of Axl Rose’s chequered skirt […]
Srinagar: Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that government would raise five more battalions of Indian Reserve Police (IRP) in Jammu and Kashmir. While talking to reporters at Kupwara during his visit, Singh said 60 percent of the vacancies for these IRP battalions will be reserved for the people of border areas. Earlier, the local […]
Srinagar: In a startling revelation, legislator from Langate, Engineer Rashid said that his Awami Itehad Party (AIP) boycotted the meeting with home minister Rajnath Singh after they were told by the government that they should not speak about Right to Self Determination with him. “After being asked not to speak for Right to self determination,AIP […]
