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Police Foils Traditional Alam Sharif Procession

Life paralyzed in city civil lines, scores detained

SRINAGAR: Continuing the practice set by the then Governor Jagmohan in 1990, state government prevented traditional  Alam sharief procession of 8th Muharram in the civil lines for the 25th consecutive year Thursday by imposing an... more

Why Disallowing Muharram processions shatter the illusion of peace in Kashmir?

KO Analysis

On the 8th of Muharram, 1437 AH ( 22 Oct, 2015), Srinagar city was  under ‘restrictions’-the euphemism coined by the State Government for what essentially amounts to a curfew. From the perspective and point of view of the Government, ‘restrictions’ were apparently enforced as... more

CM attends Dussehra festival

SRINAGAR – Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, witnessed the Dussehra Finale, here at Polo Ground, today evening.

He was accompanied by Minister for Finance & Culture, Dr. Haseeb A. Drabu, Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar, Advisor to the Chief Minister, Prof. Amitabh Mattoo,... more

Local News

JAMMU: A couple was murdered in the presence of their two minor children by some masked men at village Dhanod near Lakhanpur during wee hours of Thursday. According to the... more
SRINAGAR:-According to Controller of Examination, Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission all the Examination scheduled to be held on 23 October 2015 (Friday) has been... more

Regional News

V K Singh on Dalit killings  New Delhi: Union Minister V K Singh today kicked up a storm with his comments that the Centre cannot be blamed if somebody throws a stone at a... more
Lahore: In a relief to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab police have "closed" a murder case against him, his brother Shahbaz and some members of his cabinet for... more

City News

SRINAGAR: After reaching Srinagar from New Delhi, independent lawmaker representing Langate constituency in state legislature, Er Rashid, Thursday said that his blackened... more
Srinagar: ‘Disgruntled’ Peoples Democratic Party leader and Member Parliament Tariq Hameed Karra Thursday suggested party leadership to revisit about the alliance with the... more

Sports

Swiss trio climb three virgin summits in Kashmir
In September and October 2015 Andreas Abegglen, Thomas Senf and Stephan Siegrist made the first ascents of Bhala 5900m, Tupendeo 5700m and Maha Dev Phobrang... more
Batting woes for India as they look to level series vs SA in 4th ODI
Team India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni will face one of the trickiest tests of his international career as he frets on a perfect batting combination when... more

News in Pictures

Police Foils Traditional Alam Sharif Procession,scores detained Pic...Abid Bhat
Police Foils Traditional Alam Sharif Procession,scores detained Pic...Abid Bhat
Police Foils Traditional Alam Sharif Procession,scores detained Pic...Abid Bhat
Police Foils Traditional Alam Sharif Procession,scores detained Pic...Abid Bhat
No Holds Barred
No Holds Barred
No Holds Barred
Govt Forces Thrash Yasin Malik in South Kashmir..Pic Sameer Rehmani
Govt Forces Thrash Yasin Malik in South Kashmir..Pic Sameer Rehmani
Govt Forces Thrash Yasin Malik in South Kashmir..Pic Sameer Rehmani

World News

Israeli soldiers kill Jewish man after mistaking him for Palestinian
JERUSALEM: A Jewish man was shot and killed in a scuffle with Israeli soldiers who suspected he was a Palestinian attacker, police said Thursday, in a reflection of the jittery mood that has gripped Israelis amid a spate of near-daily stabbings. The... more
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has reached a new high of almost 90 percent amid Moscow’s airstrikes against Syrian rebels, a recent opinion poll shows. “The approval rating of Vladimir Putin’s activities has set a new... more

Business

NEW DELHI: Japan has offered to finance India's first bullet train, estimated to cost $15 billion, at an interest rate of less than 1 per cent, officials said, stealing a... more

Technology

With only limited space on most Indian smartphones, what happens when everyone goes app-only?
APP WARS India’s largest e-commerce company is going app-only in Sep-tember, but will all its potential customers have the capacity to keep its app on their phones? MAYANK JAIN India’s largest e-commerce company is going app-only next month. It’s a... more

Editorial

ASIGNIFICANT development deserving to underpin any discussion on the ban on major Muharram processions in Srinagar is the sterling work by some scholars in removing... more

Opinion

My wanderings and education in many parts of the West had rendered me into more or less a cosmopolitan person. I deemed and held myself to be a ‘rootless’ cosmopolitan with... more

Letters

Wastage of Customer Time: On Tuesday, 20 October 2015, when I visited the bank in order to change the name of my CD Account. I was made to run from one counter to the next.... more

Features

AS the culture and the era of resistance spreads internationally, with objectives as disparate, but linked, as the liberation of Palestine, the resistance to western hegemony... more

Interviews

I don’t have any option to act the way I do: Er. Rashid
“PDP, NC have sold their conscience a long time ago” Engineer Rashid –the MLA from Langate, no stranger to controversy and confrontational politics- who was beaten up by BJP... more

Reviews

A view from Pakistan by the former minister of that country on how the Kashmir problem was almost solved.
We now come to the contours of a possible settlement of the intractable Jammu & Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India which has been the cause of constant friction... more

Heads & Tails

Many years ago, the Jain and Gujarati community in Mumbai controlled the stock market to a large extent. They entered into an informal pact among themselves that they would... more

Bazar Observer

When Cafe` Coffee Day (CCD), India’s most popular and the fast growing coffee cum fast food chain opened its first outlet in Srinagar in December 2009, very few people could anticipate the massive customer base it would gain over a short span of time.
When Cafe` Coffee Day (CCD), India’s most popular and the fast growing coffee cum fast food chain opened its first outlet in Srinagar in December 2009, very few people could... more