SRINAGAR, (PTK): Witnesses say it was an ordinary, albeit cold day in Kashmir when Adil Ahmad Dar drove his car into an Indian paramilitary convoy and detonated his explosives, killing 40 soldiers and himself in the deadliest attack of the region’s 30-year-old insurgency. Dar’s actions did not only impact the lives of those Indian paramilitary officers…
Priya Gupta New Delhi/Yavatmal/Chandigarh, Feb 22 (PTK): Four Kashmiri students in Maharahstra have been assaulted while a Kashmiri teacher in a private university in Punjab said he was asked to quit on Thursday even as the Supreme Court said it may take up Friday a PIL seeking security for students from the Valley in wake of…
SRINAGAR, (PTK): The highest decision-making body of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will discuss the situation in the Kashmir valley at its upcoming meeting in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior, Hindustan Times reported. The meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), scheduled from March 8 to 10,…
SRINAGAR: The tourism scenario in Kashmir is witnessing a turnaround with fresh snowfall in December and January luring more tourists to the Valley. According to the state’s tourism department, Kashmir saw as many as 40,000 tourists in the last two months. For December 2018, the footfall was around 28,000 while for January it was close…
SRINAGAR: Governor Satya Pal Malik on Thursday said the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not want peace in the state as they were more interested in their “own empowerment”. Malik was addressing a gathering in Jammu district, said he requested both former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti to…
Srinagar: Contrary to the official narrative that militancy in the Valley is confined to just four south Kashmir districts, an insurgency is widespread in Kashmir, with nine out of 10 districts affected by militancy last year. According to the report published by The New Indian Express said that Southern Kashmir, comprising four districts of Anantnag, Shopian,…
