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Snowfall may affect Amarnath track
The Kashmir hills, including entire Amarnath route, have received another spell of fresh snowfall whereas the plains, including summer capital Srinagar, were hit by rains overnight after witnessing a
J&K probes hospital’s 358 infant deaths
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered a probe following reports that as many as 358 children had died in Srinagar’s premier children’s hospital since January 2012.
Malik: LoC will soon fall like Berlin wall
Pro-independence Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Muhammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday regretted New Delhi’s reported decision not to allow him return home from Pakistan using the Chakoti-Uri,
Gunfire stops Valley cricket
A J&K policeman has been suspended following a bizarre incident involving a cricket match, a group of students and men in khaki firing warning shots, triggering tension on the main campus of Kashmir U
Gunfire stops Valley cricket
A J&K policeman has been suspended following a bizarre incident involving a cricket match, a group of students and men in khaki firing warning shots, triggering tension on the main campus of Kashmir U
Shrine board explores ways to use tracks before June 25
Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) with various official agencies is exploring the possibility of making the tracks to the 12,729-feet-high revered place of Hindu pilgrimage in Kashmir Himalayas usab
Internal strife widens in Mirwaiz Hurriyat faction
The internal strife in the so-called moderate faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference alliance, headed by Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, is getting murkier by the day.
‘Kashmir core issue, trade is subsidiary’
Prominent separatist leader Syed Shabir Ahmed Shah on Thursday cautioned India and Pakistan against seeking to freeze the Kashmir issue or put it on the backburner in order to improve their trade and cultural relations saying the people of the state will not be a party to any such arrangement. “Kashmir is the core issue between the two countries and other troubles be it Siachen, Sir Creek or trade and cultural gaps are only offshoots of Kashmir problem,” he asserted.
Declare Ahmadis non-Muslims: Grand Mufti
Kashmir’s Grand Mufti on Wednesday stirred up a real hornet’s nest by asking for declaring Ahmadis or Ahmadiyyas as non-Muslims through a legislation in the state Assembly.
The cleric, Mufti Muhammad
Lone plans to set up student wing of his party
“Catch them young” seems to be Kashmiri leader Sajjad Gani Lone’s new mantra to make his People’s Conference (PC) a popular voice of the present and future. After successfully bringing in some hopeful young faces of the Valley, he has made an attempt to reach out to the students of the region’s main university and other higher educational institutions.
