Kashmir | New vistadome coaches to offer tourists a memorable train ride through the Valley’s saffron fields and apple orchards

Kashmir | New vistadome coaches to offer tourists a memorable train ride through the Valley’s saffron fields and apple orchards

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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Home Minister Amit Shah e-inaugurates Mata Sharda Devi temple near LoC in J&K’s Kupwara

Home Minister Amit Shah e-inaugurates Mata Sharda Devi temple near LoC in J&K’s Kupwara

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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UAE’s Emaar becomes first overseas company to start a mega-mall project in Kashmir

UAE’s Emaar becomes first overseas company to start a mega-mall project in Kashmir

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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J-K admin ‘incompetent’, befooled four times, says Omar Abdullah over conman issue

J-K admin ‘incompetent’, befooled four times, says Omar Abdullah over conman issue

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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Meeting on ‘media blackout in Kashmir’ cancelled in Delhi

Meeting on ‘media blackout in Kashmir’ cancelled in Delhi

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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Data | Patterns of violence in the Kashmir Valley

Data | Patterns of violence in the Kashmir Valley

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 takes out protest march against imposition of property tax in Jammu & Kashmir

PDP takes out protest march against imposition of property tax in Jammu & Kashmir

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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J&K’s affluent class has money for iPhone, games but not for nominal property tax?: L-G Manoj Sinha  

J&K’s affluent class has money for iPhone, games but not for nominal property tax?: L-G Manoj Sinha  

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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Job aspirants protest in Srinagar, demand inquiry report on recruitment irregularities be made public

Job aspirants protest in Srinagar, demand inquiry report on recruitment irregularities be made public

Image for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: PTI Job aspirants, who had applied for various posts in the Fire and Emergency Services, on February 22 held a demonstration in Srinagar demanding that the Jammu and Kashmir administration make public the report of the inquiry committee formed to probe alleged irregularities in the recruitment process. […]

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Data | Risky diet: Which Indian States top fried food and aerated drink consumption

Data | Risky diet: Which Indian States top fried food and aerated drink consumption

Fizz and fries: Consumption of fried food and aerated drinks vary across States in India Consumption of fried foods and aerated drinks is relatively higher in Goa, many Northeastern and eastern States as compared to the rest of India, according to data from the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5 conducted in 2019-21. According to […]

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