Tag: Kashmir
Title: Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War; Author: Myra Macdonald; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages: 328; Price: Rs 599 ....
Life returned to normal on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir after train services and internet facilities were restored in the valley.....
The CPI-M on Saturday said it was outraged over the tying of a Kashmiri youth to a moving Army jeep as a shield against stone-pelters in Kashmir and demanded action against those responsible. ....
Fulfilling his election campaign promise to give doles to jobless youth ahead of the assembly elections, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Saturday distributed cheques for Rs 1,000 each to 10 unemployed youth.....
The state-of-the-art transverse ventilation system in the newly-opened 9.2 km Chenani-Nashri tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar highway may not be working effectively as commuters are complaining of high pollution levels, eye irritation and suffocation inside what has been labelled as one of India's infrastructural wonders.....
The CPI on Monday called for restraining the security forces from attacking civilians in Jammu and Kashmir to win the confidence of the people in the state, which has been rattled by a series of fresh clashes.....
The two had been talking on the phone for almost an hour now. Watching the changing expressions on the face of displaced 75-year- old Kashmiri Pandit who was talking with his Kashmiri Muslim friend of four decades, one could gauge the anxiety on the other side of line. The conversation mostly revolved around the fear of living in Kashmir. The Kashmiri Pandit, was hounded out of valley in 1990 and his Muslim friend, Abdul Rather, today was ridden with anxiety that a similar kind of fear and subjugation was being faced by those who do not approve....
An Indian Army soldier was killed in accidental firing in the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Tuesday.....
An alarming spurt in violence in early spring has been marked by attacks on civilians by militants, the army using a civilian as a shield against stone-pelters, the lowest ever voter turn-out in a parliamentary by-election and the use of social media as a tool to stoke passions.....
A youth injured on April 9 during clashes with security forces succumbed in a Srinagar hospital on Wednesday.....