Naseer Ganai

The arrest of top cop Davinder Singh while ferrying militants in his car has brought back memories of a 2004 letter by Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru to his lawyer in which Singh was named.

With 4,196 hours of internet blackouts that cost more than Rs 1,000 crore in 2019, India is the third worst-hit and economically affected country after Iraq and Sudan

Rockslides, heavy snow put the Srinagar-Jammu highway out of action again

As with all “non-lethal, or less- lethal weapons”, the doctors say there is some risk of serious permanent injury or death when tear gas is used.

Governor stirs a hornet’s nest over J&K Bank, leading to protests and then a step back

According to the police, the social networks are a headache as they are often misused as a tool to recruit youngsters, lure them to the jehad. This may have played a good part in the so-called resurgence of the Jaish in Kashmir

For most people in the Valley, the empowerment of the councils is but an exten­sion of their own aspirations for greater autonomy, which lies at the heart of the Kashmir issue.

The local interest around trekking caught on from 2004-2005 and since then, several locals have been trekking in different mountain ranges in the Valley.

For the first time, the kith and kin of policemen in J&K find themselves in the crosshairs of militants’ rage

The coalition finally gives way, removing the semblance of federal order in Kashmir. Now, in direct line of Centre.

The artists say if the government was interested in opening cinema halls, it could have renovated defunct cinema halls in Srinagar.

The detention of Farooq Abdullah, a three-term chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, was extended on Saturday by three months under PSA.

The mass exit of Kashmiris, who have been inactive due to Internet outage, from WhatsApp groups took everyone by surprise.

All the news reports and the posts in that seven pages document revolve around Kashmir and describe the "abnormal" state of affairs prevalent in the Valley

Lawyers say most of the people charged under the PSA have been detained on grounds of “likely to disturb public order,” in accordance with Section 3 of the Act, which has been described by the Amnesty International as a “lawless law”.

Asrar, a Class 11 student of Illah-i-Bagh locality in Srinagar, was injured on August 6 during a protest rally, a day after New Delhi abrogated the special status of J&K and bifurcated it into two union territories.

Outside the shuttered shops, people squat on the ground and discuss the volatile situation in the Valley. They are petrified of the possibility of a war as they often have to bear the brunt of cross-border firing and shelling between Indian and Pakistani armies.

On social networking sites the government order is being compared with the Polish government order during German occupation of Poland in December 1939 which prohibited Jews from entering or using pathways, streets and public squares from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

He denied any “fixed match” between the NC, PDP and Congress for six Lok Sabha seats of the state.

“They (PDP) haven’t de-linked from Modi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi)-led NDA. Till date PDP MPs continue to be part of the NDA,” Mir said.