“We have not seen the holding of Legislative Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. We have not seen free movement of journalists. Weโve seen the detention in fact of some prominent journalists in the Kashmir valley.” SRINAGAR โ The new Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, Donald Lu, testified before the Senate Foreign Affairs…
Shifted to basements after Russia and Ukraine went to war, Kashmiri students have become emergency newsmen. SRINAGAR โ Coming from the conflict zone has made Musaib a strife-hardened individual unlike his counterparts from the Indian mainland getting fretful over the situation in their war-torn campus.ย Capturing different shades and sides of the explosive escalation in…
Document is not rationally prepared, a netizen argues, it demonstrates an unscientific approach. Apart from political parties, Kashmiri netizens are arguing that the draft proposed by the Delimitation Commission is far from reality, given the geographical inaccuracies with the unnatural merger of areas. Document is not rationally prepared, argues netizen Ibrahim Javaid Shah. โIt demonstrates…
Wataliโs lawyer, Shariq J Reyaz, sought urgent bail and informed the special judge NIA court, Parveen Singh at Patiala House Courts, that the businessman has been diagnosed with stage IV prostate cancer that requires immediate, supervised medical treatment. SRINAGAR โ Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali has been shifted to house arrest from Tihar Jail…
At a time when the Primary and Middle Schools across Kashmir do not even have a proper space for classrooms, running a reading campaign is apparently failing. SRINAGAR โ After the State Council of Education, Research and Training (SCERT) announced a 100-day reading campaign, teachers of the government schools are skeptical about the campaign as…
Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission takes cognizance of the Mountain Ink report and blames โinadvertentโ error for the selection of the candidates. SRINAGAR โ Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission has dropped the names of two candidates from the shortlisting list for the post of Assistant Professors in โbiotechnologyโ. The candidates Pankaj Sharad and…
The community members said that the Gujjarโs and Pahariโs face the same problems. While Gujjarโs have been given ST status, the Pahari community has been ignored. SRINAGAR โ Jammu and Kashmir Pahari Culture Welfare Forum (JKPCWF), and Pahari community members in north Kashmirโs Uri are demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) for the community alleging that the…
The families of the students said that their children have run out of essential supplies as the authorities have enforced a strict curfew. SRINAGAR โ The families of Kashmiri students studying in various universities and colleges of Kazakhstan, the Central Asian Republic, are worried about their children as the country is caught in major unrest…
The neighbour who brought the news was a mute person. Through his gestures, he explained how he witnessed the chilling episode. Like every other morning, Afzal woke up late again. His father, Majeed, disliked this habit and always advised him to wake up early. His mother came into his room and told him that his…
โThe protesters also raised slogans for the restoration of the erstwhile stateโs special status, and also denounced the โhighhandednessโ of police and administration.โ SRINAGAR โ Despite the Jammu and Kashmir administrationโs attempts to scuttle the protest demonstration of the Peopleโs Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) against the Delimitation Commissionโs draft proposal, two constituents of the…