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Cong wakes up to J&K election, Azad to head campaign committee

Monday 10 November '08

With just a week to go for the first phase of elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress finally woke from its slumber.
Denied ticket, former J-K Cong chief to contest as Independent

Saturday 8 November '08

Having lost the tussle for the party ticket in north Kashmir’s Sopore constituency, Ghulam Rasool Kar, the senior-most member of the J&K Congress announced that he would be contesting the polls as an Independent candidate, making him the first dissident from the party.
61 years on, Dal’s lotus stem reaches Muzaffarabad

Friday 7 November '08

It has taken 61 years for the famous produce of the Dal Lake — nadroo (lotus stem) - to reach PoK.
13 securitymen injured in first attack since J-K polls announced

Saturday 1 November '08

In the first strike after the seven-phase Assembly election was announced in Jammu and Kashmir...v
Cong releases first list, fields ‘winners’

Friday 31 October '08

The Congress on Thursday released the list of its candidates for the constituencies that will go to polls in the first phase of elections.
One killed as CRPF opens fire on Baramulla protest

Monday 27 October '08

A 21-Yeat-Old youth was killed and three persons were seriously injured when the Central Reserve Police Force.
As cross-LoC trade route opens, Kashmir fruit growers eye markets in the Gulf

Friday 24 October '08

On Tuesday, as a convoy of 12 pick-up vans carrying different varieties of fruits from the Valley crossed the Kaman Bridge, fruit growers lined up on the LoC to see off the vehicles.
LoC trade to begin today, 13 trucks to carry fruits to PoK

Tuesday 21 October '08

As a convoy of 13 trucks carrying fruits to Pakistan occupied Kashmir left Baramulla’s mandi, hundreds of fruit growers turned up to see off the vehicles.
US Marines to hold joint exercise in Ladakh

Sunday 19 October '08

After the Royal Marines, the US marines will also be holding a joint military exercise with the Indian Army in Ladakh.
Traders from J-K, PoK form joint body

Thursday 16 October '08

The Jammu and Kashmir traders along with traders of PoK have formed a joint Chamber of Commerce to strengthen the trade and business relations between, Jammu, Kashmir and PoK.
Ahead of deadline, more hands at work to complete trade route

Saturday 11 October '08

On Uri Kaman road, workers of the Border Roads Organisation are putting in extra efforts to complete...
PoK team crosses over, hopes to trade peace

Friday 10 October '08

Zulfikar Abbasi could not hide his emotions as he crossed the Kaman Post into India.
Flower Power

Friday 10 October '08

With govt’s thrust on floriculture, more and more people are taking to commercial cultivation of flowers in the Valley
13 militants, one jawan dead in 8-day operation

Saturday 4 October '08

An eight-day-long operation launched by the Army’s paratroopers in the mountains of Harmukh...
Breakthrough on Punjab-Panjab and Rajasthan-Sindh trade

Friday 26 September '08

Next month when trucks loaded with apples, handicrafts and other items start rolling on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road...
Two killed in Valley clashes

Saturday 13 September '08

Two protestors were killed when security forces opened fire in south Kashmir’s Shopian and Baramulla towns.
Almond Cracks record

Friday 12 September '08

This spring when unexpected heavy snowfall destroyed white blooms of almonds in Kashmir, a bumper harvest was the last thing on anyone’s mind.
Army foils infiltration bid, 3 militants shot

Saturday 6 September '08

A fortnight after 14 infiltrators were killed on the Line of Control, the Army on Friday claimed to have foiled another infiltration attempt.
No Stemming The Rot in Valley

Friday 29 August '08

Even as the national highway has opened, only a few trucks are plying with the result that fruits are not only rotting in cold storages but also in orchards. Losses so far: Rs 500 crore.
Colonel, 2 jawans killed in LoC encounter

Saturday 23 August '08

In one of the deadliest encounters close to the Line of Control in Kupwara’s Machil sector...
Firing from across LoC kills jawan

Sunday 17 August '08

An Army jawan lost his life as Indian troops once again came under heavy fire near the Line of Control...
Growers’ protest ripe, parties rush in to pluck the fruits

Monday 11 August '08

The fruit growers here are watching in dismay as separatists and political parties with their own agendas hijack their march towards the Line of Control.
LoC posts under fire again: Army

Thursday 7 August '08

The Army on Wednesday claimed its troops came under small arms’ fire from across the Line of Control...
Valley becomes vegetable basket

Friday 1 August '08

After acquiring a monopoly in fruit production and sale across the country, Kashmir is now set to become the vegetable hub...
Pak troops fire again at LoC posts

Thursday 31 July '08

The Indian Army on Wednesday blamed Pakistani troops for violating the ceasefire for a second time since Monday in Kupwara's Nowgam sector.
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