Srinagar
Pressure on J&K minister may intensify
Jammu and Kashmir’s minister for school education and former state Congress chief Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed seems to be in real trouble now.
Islamic students' group asks JK youths to abandon V-Day
An Islamic students' group here has asked youths in Jammu and Kashmir not to celebrate the Valentine's Day and instead observe a ‘Haft-e-Haya’ (week of modesty) from February 13-19.
Islami Jamaat-e-T
IAF airlifts 313 stranded people
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on W airlifted 313 people of Kargil district who were stranded at Leh and Srinagar as the AN32 courier service to Kargil could not operate for the last two weeks due to incl
Srinagar-Jammu highway closed for second day
The Srinagar-Jammu highway remained closed for the second day on Sunday as fresh snowfall and shooting stones continued at vulnerable sectors of the road, an official said.
Due to fresh snowfall in t
Moderate intensity quake in Kashmir Valley
A moderate intensity earthquake rocked the Kashmir Valley on Saturday morning, disaster management officials said. No damage to life or property has been reported so far.
"The magnitude of the earthq
Valley hopes for record tourists this year
Jammu and Kashmir, which was visited by a record number of over 1.3 million domestic and foreign tourists in 2011 following almost return of peace in the hinterland and significant improvement in security situation elsewhere, is hoping to host bigger number of guests in 2012.
Oomar takes a dig at rushdie protesters
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday chose to take a dig at those who protested over Salman Rushdie, the author of Satanic Verses, having been barred from speaking at the recently held Jaipur literary festival yet forced the Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune to cancel a seminar on Kashmir.
J&K Sikhs want reprobe into 2000 massacre
An amalgam of Kashmiri Sikhs on Tuesday demanded a re-investigation into the March 2000 massacre of 36 members of the minority community in the village of Chattisinghpora outside the southern town of Anantnag, the gory incident blamed on separatist militants by the authorities.
J&K minister in the dock over son’s exam
Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed, former Jammu and Kashmir PCC chief and minister for school education in Omar Abdullah-led National Conference-Congress coalition government, who has been at the centre of man
Kargil freezes at minus 25, lowest of the season
At minus 25 degrees Celsius, Kargil town in the Ladakh region on Monday recorded the lowest temperature of the season anywhere in Jammu and Kashmir so far as severe cold continued across the Valley, a
