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July 16, 2019 No Responses

Windstorm, Heavy rains wreaked havoc in parts of north Kashmir

Windstorm followed by heavy rains and hailstorm wreaked havoc in parts of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday by damaging trees and residential houses. The storm caused extensive damage to standing crops and apple orchards mostly in Zaingeer...

July 16, 2018 No Responses

Teachers detained in Baramulla for allegedly glorifying militancy

Thirteen teachers of a private school in north Kashmir’s Baramulla town were detained last week for allegedly ‘glorifying militancy’ and motivating students to become militants. Videos doing the rounds on social media showed 13–14-year-old boys being e...

February 3, 2018 No Responses

Army ‘accidentally’ mixes chemicals in stream used for drinking water in Handwara village

Panic gripped Mawar village of Handwara after the news broke out of toxic chemicals being mixed in a nearby nallah. Thousands of fishes have died in the nallah which is also the main drinking water source for many areas of...

January 24, 2018 No Responses

Zakir Musa’s posters surface in North Kashmir

Posters of Zakir Musa, head of newly created militant group Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind surfaced at Watergam area of Rafiabad in district Baramulla on Tuesday morning. Eyewitnesses told Kashmir Post that posters of Zakir Musa were seen pasted on electricity poles an...

December 18, 2017 No Responses

CBI confirms identity of 33 of 57 civilian killed in 1993 Sopore Massacre

On January 6, 1993 the BSF set ablaze the main market Sopore and indiscriminately fired upon civilians, allegedly killing 57 people after a militant had, as per reports, snatched a rifle from a BSF trooper. Of the 57 civilians killed...

December 11, 2017 No Responses

Baramulla takes lead, grants amnesty to 390 first time stone pelters

Baramulla in north Kashmir has become the first district in the state to withdraw cases against youth following Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s recent decision to grant amnesty to first-time stone throwers. The authorities today withdrew FIRs against 390 per...

June 10, 2017 No Responses

Freed after 16 years, Baramulla man recounts how Delhi police ruined his career

Happiness has visited the Wani family of Baramulla after 16 long years. Gulzar Ahmad Wani, who was acquitted of all charges in a case involving a blast on a train in 2001 by a court in Uttar Pradesh on May...

March 20, 2017 No Responses

Archaeologists discover 5000 Year old sites, remains in north Kashmir

It will document Kashmir history: Director CCAS Archaeologists have discovered 5000-year-old sites and remains in three north Kashmir districts of Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara. The 5000-year-old sites in many hamlets across the three north Kashmir district...

December 14, 2016 No Responses

Track-II team meets civil society members in Baramulla

The former union minister Yashwant Sinha led track-II delegation held deliberations with different groups at Dak Bunglow here in north Kashmir on Tuesday. Sources said the civil society members stressed upon the visiting delegation about the importance of sett...

December 7, 2016 No Responses

HC asks DC Bla, SSP to seal all illegal structures in Gulmarg before Dec 19

The High Court has formed an expert committee headed by Deputy Commissioner Baramulla to ensure that no illegal structure is constructed in famous tourist resort of Gulmarg. Hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against encroachments in Gulmarg, a single ...