Daredevil escape artist, undone by love

Wednesday 14 September '11

Abdullah Ooni had set up a vibrant network of Lashkar cells across north Kashmir.

Unmarked graves in J-K: Will take 'appropriate action', says Omar

Monday 29 August '11

Omar wants to set up a commission to seek an Indo-Pak joint strategy in the form of a 'Jammu and Kashmir centric' confidence building measure.

Missing in the Valley

Sunday 28 August '11

Ghulam Hassan Dar and Suraya''s son Javaid Ahmad Dar was eight when he went missing.

The face of Valley''s tragedy of missing may have no answers in death

Wednesday 24 August '11

She was the face of the search by Kashmir''s mothers for their missing sons. But as a report by the State Human Rights Commission promises to many a closure, it may have come too late for Mughli.

J-K: 'Where is the body, the remains? I want to know. I want to see''

Monday 22 August '11

Bilquees says she and her family tried to resist but were pushed aside.

2156 unidentified bodies in 38 graves in Kashmir: state human rights panel inquiry

Sunday 21 August '11

Inquiry calls for prompt exhumation, DNA profiling, FIRs, thorough investigation across the Valley.

Bhaderwah killing: 15 yrs and 2 probes later, no answers

Monday 15 August '11

For the families of the victims of Bhaderwah fake encounter in which three villagers were kidnapped and killed, the murder was the beginning of a long journey of pain and betrayal.

Civilians 'killed'', 15-yr report back to haunt J&K DGP

Sunday 14 August '11

Officer alleged his inquiry report into fake encounter in which 3 civilians were killed was buried by govt

Srinagar''s Night Out

Sunday 31 July '11

Markets bustling with tourists are open late into the night and houseboats light up the Dal Lake. After twenty years of violence and fear, the Valley is slowly reclaiming its night, writes Muzamil Jal...

Kulgam 'rape'' threatens to push Valley to brink, gets state moving

Saturday 23 July '11

Protesters burn Tehsildar''s car; separatists call strike; Army assures probe, justice.

Fai''s arrest rattles Valley''s separatists

Thursday 21 July '11

Fai is close to almost every separatist group with a nuanced stance that includes calls for a peaceful settlement.

Dr Fai, 'ambassador'' for Kashmiri separatists

Thursday 21 July '11

Fai has been arrested in the US for using Pakistani funds to sway US policy against India on Kashmir.

A mystery called Ilyas Kashmiri

Monday 6 June '11

There is hardly anything known about his childhood other than that he was born in 1964.

1,500 illegal appointments in J-K civic bodies

Monday 2 May '11

At a time when the J&K government is emphasising the need to empower grass roots governance, a large-scale illegal appointment racket has been exposed in its flagship Urban Local Bodies Department tha...

J&K Cong MLA''s kin held for hawala links, claim police

Saturday 23 April '11

J & K police have arrested the uncle of a Congress legislator for allegedly channelling hawala money for "promoting militancy"

A People''s General

Sunday 17 April '11

The first Muslim officer to command the Army in Kashmir in two decades, Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain is attempting to bridge the divide between the Army and the people with his "heart as weapon'''' do...

Draining trout rivers: Omar calls for report, Fisheries seeks ban

Wednesday 13 April '11

The Fisheries Department too has reversed its stand and called for a ban.

J&K govt bends rules to drain half of Valley''s trout streams

Tuesday 12 April '11

Fisheries * Officers admit 'political pressure'' behind move to extract boulders.

On match-eve, forces on alert in J&K

Tuesday 29 March '11

In Jammu and Kashmir, a small event is enough to disturb the tenuous calm in the state.

Separatists are respectable people, should be heard: Soz

Tuesday 22 March '11

He said they had "an important role in dialogue process so their voices should be heard''''.

Kashmir separatists are respectable people, should be heard: Soz

Monday 21 March '11

J&K Congress president Saif-ud-Din Soz called separatist leaders "respectable people''''.

Ex-militants turning up as hired guns in Valley

Sunday 20 March '11

When a noted businessman in north Kashmir''s Kreeri township was killed in broad daylight by unknown gunmen last month.

Roemer snubs separatists, says chief minister is elected leader

Saturday 19 March '11

Unlike his predecessors, US Ambassador Timothy Roemer had a new and clear message for Kashmir.

No redressal system in Valley, says ex-judge who ordered Avtar''s arrest

Monday 7 March '11

Fourteen years ago, Justice Bilal Nazki had issued an order for the arrest of Major Avtar Singh and impounding of his passport after a police investigation revealed his alleged involvement in the cust...

Look, who''s pelting stones in Srinagar!

Sunday 6 March '11

"Hum kya chahtay? Aazadi. Geelani-wali aazadi (what do we want? Azadi. Geelani-type Aazadi)."