Category: REPORTAGE


  • Mountain Ink spoke to several residents who have managed to get a fake vaccination certificate. Many among them are students, teachers, and businessmen. SRINAGAR โ€” Sehrish was tense. She was unvaccinated when the government announced the reopening of colleges but made vaccination a precondition for students to attend the classes physically. A 21-year-old college student,…

  • A police spokesperson said that Saifullah was also involved in the killing of BJPโ€™s Bandipora President Waseem Bari, his brother and father. Srinagar โ€” The Jammu and Kashmir police on Sunday claimed to have killed a foreign militant in a military operation in the Harwan area of Kashmirโ€™s capital city Srinagar. Police said that the…

  • Since Friday midnight 20,000 PDD employees are on an indefinite strike to protest the governmentโ€™s move to merge J&KPDD into the Power Grid Corporation of India and privatisation of assets. SRINAGAR โ€” Several areas in Kashmir are facing electricity outages as the government has failed to negotiate with the Power Development Department (PDD) employees who…

  • The family of the baby alleged medical negligence by the staff of Sub District Hospital Tangdhar. SRINAGAR โ€” A new born baby died hours after the delivery, and his family members alleged that the baby had a deep cut on his head that apparently looked like a sharp object wound. The incident occurred at Sub-District hospital…

  • Vendors demand space near the main market that is accessible to people. SOPORE โ€” Theย street vendors in north Kashmirโ€™s Sopore township are suffering for the past four years as the administration neither allows them to operate their stalls by roadsides nor provides them with an alternate space. In 2018, the vendors were granted permission for…

  • The residents said they feel choked and helpless. SRINAGAR โ€” The residents of Wanbal area of capital city Srinagar are living in fear after the Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested mother-daughter duo on charges of โ€œriotingโ€ following accusations that they were part of protests that erupted after a recent shootout in the area. The two…

  • โ€œI recently went to Jammu and saw people, especially traders, crying.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” The businesses in Jammu have been affected badly after the 149-year-old bi-annual tradition of shifting the offices between the twin capitals โ€” Srinagar and Jammu โ€” โ€˜Darbar moveโ€™ came to an end this year in the month of June. The LG government…

  • “The traders say that they met the then DC Baramulla who assured them that he will look into the matter.” SOPORE โ€” As the Baramulla district administration plans to implement the โ€˜Sopore master planโ€™, many business establishments and shopkeepers have expressed their resentment saying that the implementation of the โ€˜planโ€™ will render them jobless. Although…

  • โ€œWe are tracking them and very soon we will neutralize the group.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, while offering condolences to the families of three policemen killed in a militant attack on Monday evening at Zewan in city outskirts, said Government of Indiaโ€™s false narrative of normalcy in Kashmir stands…

  • The region enjoyed the constitutional guarantees under the abrogated Articles 370 and 35-A of the Indian constitution. With the Articles gone, more and more people and parties are demanding constitutional guarantees and a full-fledged statehood. SRINAGAR โ€” An unprecedented shutdown is being observed in the Union Territory of Ladakh, a division of the erstwhile state…