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After Chinese incursion, Army chief to visit Lada...
PTI
New Delhi, Aug 17:Army Chief General Bipin Rawat will pay a three-day visit to Ladakh beginning Sunday during which he will take stock of the security preparedness along the border with China besides discussing key operational matters with top commanders, official sources said Thursday.The Army Chief's visit to Ladakh comes days after Indian border guards foiled an attempt by Chinese soldiers to enter Indian territory along the banks of Pangong lake in Ladakh.The Chief of Army Staff will pay a thReadIndia can face China, Pak but threat is from insi...
PTINew Delhi, Aug 17:India could face China and Pakistan but somebody within the country was determined to...Read
Army briefs Governor on border situation with Chi...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar, Aug 17:Governor N N Vohra today visited the Army's 14 Corps headquarters in Leh region of th...Read
NIA arrests businessman Zahoor Watali from Delhi
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar, Aug 17:The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested Kashmir’s leading ...Read
State admin in crisis as senior officers desert J...
Yawar HussainSrinagar, Aug 17:With the state administration already facing deficit of experienced officers, the J&a...Read
Book challenging Kashmir’s fictional Hindu histor...
FaisulYaseenSrinagar, Aug 17:‘Kashmir: Exposing the Myth Behind the Narrative’, a book by author, poet...Read
Mehbooba adopting Modi’s dictatorial attitude: Mi...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar, Aug 17:Warning that any attempt to weaken Jammu and Kashmir’s special status would be ...Read
Army launches CASO in Gurez after brief gunfight
Rising Kashmir NewsBandipora, Aug 14:Army Thursday launched massive combing and search operation in Bhim Nallah area of Gu...Read
Mehbooba, Raju inaugurate modernised Jammu airpor...
Rising Kashmir NewsJammu, Aug 17:Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju ...Read
Pak FM seeks UN's attention towards HR abuses in ...
PTIIslamabad, Aug 17:Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif Thursday sought the UN Secretary General's a...Read
India welcomes US move
New Delhi, Aug 17:India Thursday welcomed the US decision to designate Kashmiri militant outfit Hizbul ...Read
News
File report regarding jail capacity, convicts, un...
'Insha Latief''Srinagar: 'High Court (HC) Thursday directed the government to file a detailed report regarding jail capacity in the State with a breakup of convicts, under-trials, women and children lodged under the Public Safety Act (PSA).Hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), a ... Read
Law minister discusses Article 35-A...
Srinagar:Ahead of the four PDP ministers visiting New Delhi to s...Read
Abrogation of Article 35-A threat t...
Riyaz BhatSrinagar: Terming the abrogation of Article 35-A as a ‘thre...Read
NC questions Geelani’s standing, sa...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar: National Conference (NC) Thursday said Syed Ali Geelani...Read
City
Nowhere to park, cars line up along Jhelum bund
'Riyaz Bhat''Srinagar:'The bund along river Jhelum in Srinagar has been in shambles for weeks as the government failed to prevent illegal car parking on it.The bund near city centre Lal Chowk has turned into a cove for school vans and private vehicles. Locals accused the Srinagar Mu... Read
PHE employees threaten indefinite s...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar:Employees of the government’s Public Health Engin...Read
20 auto-desilting machines to clear...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar:Twenty auto desilting machines were inaugurated in Srin...Read
Tracking social media among topics ...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar:In a workshop organized here on Thursday, officers of t...Read
Kashmir
CJ visits Baramulla, takes stock of functioning o...
'''Baramulla: 'Chief Justice, Jammu and Kashmir, Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed today visited Baramulla and inaugurated Conference Hall and Lawyers Chambers at the District Court Complex here as well as new complex of Munsiff Court at Boniyar.Minister for Law and Justice Abdul H... Read
Governor participates in National I...
Leh: Governor N NVohra today visited Leh to participate in t...Read
HC upholds quashing of Govt employe...
Insha LatiefSrinagar: High Court Thursday upheld an order of the single bench...Read
Chairman LC constitutes House Panel...
Srinagar:Chairman, J&K Legislative Council, Haji Anayat Ali ...Read
Jammu
Effects of PM’s outreach to JK must be felt on gr...
'Rising Kashmir News''Jammu :'Welcoming the “outreach” by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to the people of Jammu and Kashmir during his Independence Day speech, National Conference Provincial President, Devender Singh Rana, on Thursday said that it was imperative the foot-prints... Read
People stage protest against errati...
Rising Kashmir NewsJammu: Several protesters on Thursday blocked the Amphalla-Jan...Read
4 injured as vehicle plunges into g...
MOHD MAJID MALIKDODA:Four passengers received serious injuries when a Tavera...Read
4-week orientation course begins at...
Rising Kashmir NewsJammu:A four-week UGC-General Orientation course for College ...Read
Editorial
Decentralizing waste management
''''At a joint meeting of Rural Sanitation, Rural Development Department and National Rural Livelihood Mission, presided by Minister of Rural Development Panchayati Raj, Law and Justice – Abdul Haq – the minister stressed on identifying space for insta... Read
Kashmir Conundrum
With India and Pakistan blaming each other for fomentin...Read
Follow words with action
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday reached out to Kas...Read
AFSPA, how long?
In the alliance agenda, PDP and BJP the coalition partn...Read
Opinion
Congress survival must for the survival of democr...
'Santosh Bhartiya'''Santosh Bhartiya People in the Congress party called Jairam Ramesh a “new Congressman”. “In 2004 he was ‘not’ in the Congress and now he has identified the dangers that beset the party, which in the end will make it irrelevant&rdq... Read
Article 35-A: Myths and Misconcepti...
Abdul Majid ZargarAbdul Majid Zargar abdulmajidzargar@gmail.com In the ca...Read
Challenge to Art 35-A: Last wakeup ...
Akmal HananAkmal Hanan akmalhanan07@gmail.com The tragedy with Kas...Read
Jirga and gender violence
D Suba ChandranSuba Chandran Undoubtedly Jirgas in our part of the wor...Read
Business
JK ties up with Spices Board to promote saffron
'''New Delhi: 'The Spices Board and the state government have joined hands to boost production and promote high quality Kashmiri saffron in both domestic and global markets.The Board and the state government are also going full throttle to secure GI (geographical indication)... Read
Tourism deptt to promote horticultu...
Srinagar, 17:In order to promote farm tourism and add new tourism pr...Read
J&K Bank ATM network grows to 1126
Srinagar, Aug 17:J&K Bank commissioned two more ATMs today; one at P...Read
HDFC Bank revises interest rates on...
Srinagar:HDFC Bank Ltd., today announced a revision in its Savin...Read
Sports
J&K sub-junior football team tours Punjab for Nor...
'Rising Kashmir News''Srinagar: 'A contingent of 20 players of J&K State Sub-Junior football team under-16 Thursday left for Punjab to participate in North Zone Sub-Junior Football Championship 2017-18. The team will play matches on August 21, 23 and 25. Senior Vice-President Prof. B.A Sh... Read
Zahoor urges youth to participate a...
SRINAGAR, AUGUST 17-Minister of State for Forest, Environment, Animal &...Read
GD Goenka flags off adventure camp ...
Srinagar August 17, 2017:Chairman GD Goenka School flagged off its 4 daylong fir...Read
State Cricket Academy T-20 Champion...
Rising Kashmir NewsSrinagar, Aug 16:Two matches were played Wednesday one each in Bhaderwah...Read
Viewpoint
We don’t belong to jail
'Sheikh Imran'''imu3133@gmail.com Kashmir is a place which is famously known as a paradise on earth. There are many local as well as international poets who have praised its beauty through their songs and poems. But the irony is that every beautiful thing has a dark side. The... Read
Debating Article 35-A
Sheikh Shabirsheikhshabir518@gmail.com Enough noise has been made ov...Read
Protests and Pellets
Altaf Hussain/David Jenkins The nature of civil conflic...Read
SC, not Modi has last word on Artic...
K.B. Jandialkbjandial@gmail.com Fast moving political developments ...Read
Responses
Veterinary Doctors
' Dear Editor,'''At present about 1000 trained veterinary doctors are unemployed in Jammu and Kashmir and each year about 250 candidates are added to the list. The government isn't doing anything to address the unemployment problem in veterinary doctors. The file for creation ... Read
Dog menace
editorThis is regarding the canine terror that is spreading i...Read
Ban liquor
Dear EditorConsumption of alcohol is prohibited in Islam. Alcohol ...Read
Unemployment
Dear EditorUnemployment is the main source of psychological disord...Read
