Siege Begins In Srinagar On Maisuma Chalo Eve
Srinagar, July 29, KONS: The government’s military machine was in full swing in Srinagar on Thursday evening gearing up to foil the Hurriyat (G)’s planned march to the city center on Friday, even though the faction’s call for street sit-ins had already kept businesses and offices shut down for... Read more...UN Chief Concerned over Kashmir situation
Srinagar, Jul 29- United Nations has expressed concern over the latest unrest in Indian controlled Kashmir and has urged all sides to exercise utmost restraint and address problems peacefully. Read more...PDP Gives Govt. Taste of Own Medicine
Srinagar, July 29, KONS: Peoples Democratic Party Legislators led by their leader Mehbooba Mufti today locked the main entrance of civil secretariat of Srinagar and sat on a dharna. This was to give the government a taste of the siege which it has laid around every citizen of Kashmir. ... Read more...Govt Bans Local News Chanel
Srinagar, July 29, KONS: With strict time bars and other curbs on news bulletins from local cable networks already in place here, the government on Thursday went a step further and banned two popular TV channels with imm...Hurriyat Appeals Sikhs For Calm, Condemns Incident
Srinagar, July 29, KONS: The Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq today made an appeal to the valley’s Sikhs to maintain calm after a member of the community was humiliated by some shadowy elements in south Kas...Omar Assures Security, Welfare to Sikhs
Srinagar July 29:- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said that the state government is committed to the cause of secularism and brotherhood which is the essence of the ethos of Kashmir – Kashmiriyat....Indian Muslims Concerned Over Disruption of Valley Academics
Srinagar, July 29: A group of Indian Muslims today issued an appeal to sponsors of ongoing anti-India stir to allow resumption of educational activities in the Kashmir valley.US Get-Together For Peace In Kashmir
Srinagar, July 28: A two day Peace Conference, the 11th so far, began in Washington with host of retired diplomats and select opinion makers from the region taking part.Siege Begins In Srinagar On Maisuma Chalo Eve
Srinagar, July 29, KONS: The government’s military machine was in full swing in Srinagar on Thursday evening gearing up to foil the Hurriyat (G)’s planned march to the city center on Friday, even though the faction’s call for street sit-ins had already kept businesses and offices shut down for th...Indian Muslims Concerned Over Disruption of Valley Academics
Srinagar, July 29: A group of Indian Muslims today issued an appeal to sponsors of ongoing anti-India stir to allow resumption of educational activities in the Kashmir valley.Delhi's Derelictions
Repeated killings in crowd control speak eloquently, among other things, of the state government’s slackening grip on its police force which has been let off time and again without even the mildest form of censure.PDP Gives Govt. Taste of Own Medicine
Srinagar, July 29, KONS: Peoples Democratic Party Legislators led by their leader Mehbooba Mufti today locked the main entrance of civil secretariat of Srinagar and sat on a dharna. This was to give the government a taste of the siege which it has laid around every citizen of Kashmir. ...US Get-Together For Peace In Kashmir
Srinagar, July 28: A two day Peace Conference, the 11th so far, began in Washington with host of retired diplomats and select opinion makers from the region taking part.'Curfew, Strikes Cost Traders 45 Cr Daily'
Srinagar, July 14, KONS: Hit hard by the current turmoil, Kashmir’s trading community has subtle variations in its response to the continued series of strikes and curfews in the valley, though the support to the separatist programmes exists across the board, for now.Running out of steam
Soumitra DasJournalism is not about patriotism. It is not about ‘my country right or wrong’. Journalism is about the Truth. In India, however, far too often a journalist’s first commitment is to his country rather than to the truth. Nowhere is this more evident than in our reportage on Kashmir an...Another Sad Day
This is in reference to Dr. Fayaz Shawl's recent press conference in which he announced that his dream project 'Kashmir Cardiovascular Centre' that was proposed to come up in Srinagar has been scuttled.Milk Sheikhs of India
Maneka GandhiA Minister of Maharashtra and his bodyguard recently entered the main slum of Mumbai on a surprise visit . He saw people in organized rows in the filthy hutments taking out milk from branded packets and putting in white water from buckets. Entire households, including children, were found with hundreds of plastic bags containing popular branded milk including Gokul, Aarey and Mahananda. Every hut had hundreds of milk bags, pots of water, a candle and a funnel to suck out milk and mix the white mixture.
Obituary: Modernity's Ayatollah Passes Away
Fazal AnsariSrinagar: A dedicated opponent of Israel’s occupation of Arab land, a fierce critic of US policies in the Middle East and a supporter of the 1979 Iranian revolution, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Fadlallah (Fazlullah) was a social moderate and sought to reconcile Shia and Sunni Muslims. Descendant of the family of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and a marja (source of emulation), he issued fatwas, or religious rulings, that prohibited violence against women and children, declared that women were entitled to stand for and serve in elected office, banned smoking, and barred self-flagellation during ceremonies marking the day of Ashoura.
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