Normal work was disrupted on Monday, June 09, 2008 in Kashmir and Assam as government employees and other people of the state went on strike over fuel price hike. Police in Kashmir used water cannons and batons to disperse hundreds of government employees. Elsewhere in the country, though, life ...

Yet one more controversy is ready to bog the popular Amarnath pilgrimage, which is scheduled to begin from June 18 onwards. It is being emphasized by the custodian of this reverent Hindu shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, Mahant Deependra Giri that the usage of the new manmade route of Baltal goes ...

A 284 metre long bridge in the Kashmir Valley, whose construction was left half- completed around 20 year back, is now ready. The bridge was dedicated to the people on Saturday, June 7 by the J&K Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. It took the government an investment of Rs 10 Crore to build this ...

BR Kundal, a 1972 batch IAS officer will become the first non-political person to be inducted in the Jammu & Kashmir state cabinet on Monday, June 02, 2008. 59 year old Kundal, who resigned as the state’s chief secretary on Saturday night has been replaced by former Financial Commissioner ...

A very old air base located in the mountainous terrain of the Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir was made operational once again by the Indian air force on Saturday 31 May. This air strip at the Dawaltbaigh Oldi was shut down some 43 years ago. At around 8:50 am on Saturday, an AN-32 transporter ...

President Pratibha Patil who is on her first official tour to Jammu & Kashmir, addressing the second convocation of the Sher-e-Kashmir University of agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Jammu called for a second green revolution in the country. She recalled the times of India’s ...

The Indian army informed on Monday 19 May that one of its soldiers died in a shooting from the side of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir along the strongly guarded border area. This news was confirmed by Indian army spokesman, Lt. Col. Shantanu Dass Goswami who said that one Indian army personnel became ...

Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Ghulam Hassan Mir on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 launched his own political party named Jammu & Kashmir Democratic Party. The erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir urban development minister is the sitting legislator from north Kashmir’s Tangmarg ...

The student community in the Kashmir valley have a reason to rejoice as the Kashmir University has resumed its feature radio and news programme – Kashmir University Radio Digest (KURD). The half an hour news and feature digest will be broadcasted from Radio Kashmir Srinagar and apart from ...