โThe incident site is located on the Pakistani side of the Anti-Infiltration Obstacle System, kept under surveillance by the Indian Army to effectively counter any nefarious activity by the infiltrators or Pakistan Army.โ SRINAGAR โ The Indian Army on Sunday claimed to have foiled a BAT action by killing a militant in the Keran sector…
Many shopkeepers said that they feel dispossessed and disempowered by whatever the administration has been doing. โThey want to settle outsiders here by dispossessing us and want us to act normally, which is impossible.โ SRINAGAR โ A partial shutdown was observed in the Downtown area of the capital city Srinagar on Saturday against the first…
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…
Officials said that the road will be redesigned and will be filled with marble stones, and โcreative designsโ that will make it look aesthetic. The existing shops will stay intact and an alternative road stretch will be constructed for traffic. SRINAGAR โ In a bid to beautify the Srinagar city the administration is converting the…
86 local militants active; 128 locals joined militancy this year. 73 were killed, says IGP Kashmir. SRINAGAR โย The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir, Vijay Kumar Thursday said that for the first time in the past 30 years of militancy in Kashmir, the number of active militants in the Kashmir Valley has come down to…
This is the first conviction among 2500 UAPA cases registered till date in Kashmir.ย Three others, all locals, have been acquitted after eight years of trialย in the same case. SRINAGAR โ In a first, a foreigner has been convicted under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Srinagar. On…
New Delhi: Mirza Waheed speaks the way he writes: with care. Ask this Kashmiri novelist a question, he looks a tad flustered. He averts his eyes, fidgets with his fingers and weighs his words before he finally answers the query. I spend time writing my sentences, I donโt want to hurry. And I am not a…
NEW DELHI: She writes poetic prose, employs redolent metaphors and evokes utmost admiration for her novelistic virtues. Arundhati Roy is anything but a boring author. The 1997 Booker Prize-winner, who is equally at ease writing scathing essays, says she is a โdisciplined writerโ whose heart lies in fiction as it is a โconnective tissueโ between…