A large Ladakhi house typically has two kitchens. Yarkhang, the summer kitchen, is a basic functional unit located on a higher floor, while the winter kitchen, chansa, is marked by its lateral sprawl, brass and copper cookware, and a thap (hearth) around which family, guests and visitors gather. It is the fluid potential of the kitchen — transcending its […]
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On a crisp November morning, the Dal Lake glimmers with a liquid mercury under the muted winter sun. Spade-shaped paddles cut through the icy waters and the soft cadence of a phiran-draped gondolier, clutching kangris and narrating folklore make the shikara as Kashmiri as kahwa or zafraan. Amid the ornate boats moored along the ghats, […]
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The new vistadome coaches in Kashmir’s sky trains | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmad The autumn sun lights up the 40-seater vistadome coaches introduced this month on trains plying in the Kashmir valley. The glass roofs give you a glimpse of the sky, which will soon be filled with swirling snowflakes as winter approaches, making the […]
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah e-inaugurated the Mata Sharda Devi temple near the LoC in J&K. | File Photo | Photo Credit: ANI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday e-inaugurated the Mata Sharda Devi temple near the Line of Control (LoC) in Karnah sector of Jammu and Kashmir, saying the abrogation of Article 370 […]
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Jammu & Kashmir L-G Manoj Sinha during the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the first international mall in J&K, ‘Mall of Srinagar’, to be built by UAE-based Emaar Properties, during India-UAE Investor Meet, in Srinagar on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI Dubai-based Emaar, a real estate developer from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has become the first overseas company to […]
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National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on March 18 termed the Jammu and Kashmir administration “incompetent” after a conman posing as a PMO official got the requisite perks, and claimed it was befooled four times. Kiran Patel, the fraudster hailing from Gujarat posed as an additional director (strategy and campaigns) in the Prime Minister’s Office and […]
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A public meeting on “Media Blackout and State Repression in Kashmir” at Gandhi Peace Foundation here on Wednesday was cancelled after the police intervened. The meeting was planned by various organisations under the banner of Campaign Against State Repression. In a letter, the station house officer (SHO) of the I.P. Estate police station requested the […]
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Violence in the Kashmir Valley: Bullet-ridden glass after an encounter with security forces that left two terrorists dead two days after a Kashmiri Pandit was killed, in Pulwama on Feb. 28, 2023. An Army jawan was also killed. Targeted killings against Kashmiri Pandits and minorities in the Kashmir Valley have been on the rise. The […]
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PDP supporters staged a protest against property tax in Srinagar on February 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmad The PDP on Saturday took out a protest march to demand roll-back of the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s decision to impose property tax in the Union Territory. The Union Territory administration on Tuesday ordered the imposition […]
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Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha | File Photo | Photo Credit: PTI Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday defended the move to introduce property tax in the Union Territory for the first time, saying “people have money for iPhones, data, games but don’t want to pay for services”. “There is […]
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