The Kashmir Fort Festival saw an overwhelming response today as the participants wearing traditional turbans walked through the interiors of the old city in Srinagar […]
Month: May 2016
No ‘acche din’ in Kashmir as yet, after two years of Modi Sarkar
Months after taking over as the prime minister two years ago, Narendra Modi, sporting a woollen cape-like Kashmiri garment called a pheran, addressed a huge […]
Most unexplored destinations in the Kashmir Valley
The mercury is rising everyday. Here are a few offbeat places in Kashmir you can escape to. Kashmir. For years this part of the country […]
Jammu being developed as independent tourist place
Underlining the commitment of the government to develop tourist destinations in Jammu province, Minister of State for Tourism, Education, Technical Education, Culture, Horticulture, Floriculture and […]
No Devanagari script for Kashmiri: Civil Society
Kashmir’s civil society today rejected the reported move by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to introduce Devanagari as an alternative script for Kashmiri […]
Will quit politics if charge proved against me : Lal Singh
Lal Singh for probe against complainants to unravel ‘conspiracy’ Rubbishing the accusations of issuing a threat to Gujjars and using abusive language against them, Minister […]
Return of projects part of Agenda of Alliance: Drabu
“We are all aware that the power projects belong to the listed company (NHPC). However it has been agreed in the Agenda of Alliance (between […]
Kashmir’s culture and a samovar
Rifat Mohidin When Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s eye caught an intricately crafted samovar at Srinagar’s Kashmir Haat, she unknowingly brought this traditional Kashmiri copper utensil […]
Curfew-like restrictions in Srinagar to foil ‘Eidgah chalo’
Separatists including Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Syed Ali Geelani, Muhammad Yasin Malik and others have called for a public rally to the martyrs graveyard in Eidgah […]
Despite Court orders, admin ‘fails’ to axe Russian poplars in city
Despite High Court orders to axe the Russian poplars across valley, district administration in Summer Capital Srinagar has failed to axe the banned poplar trees. […]