Srinagar: International e-commerce giants have a new rival in Kashmir, Groxery. Malik Aadil, 28 years old, is aiming to be the boss in the online delivery business in Kashmir valley, his USP being instant delivery – within 70 minutes. A resident of a remote area in Bandipora district, Aadil has built up his own in-house […]
SICOP, JK Minerals, JK Industries closed down, JK Cements to be privatised Srinagar: The Jammu & Kashmir administration’s decision to shut down many decades-old government-run industrial units, which offered employment to thousands of skilled and unskilled workforce, has outraged trade bodies, industrialists, and politicians alike. As per the order issued by Bipul Pathak, Principal Secretary […]
Srinagar: The killing of BJP’s Bandipora leader along with his father and brother, who also worked for the BJP, right outside their home and despite 10 personal security officers given to them by the government, has led to a sense of dread among BJP functionaries and party workers across Kashmir. Immediately after the killings, Maroof […]
Several Jama’at members also arrested in fresh crackdown Srinagar: Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chief Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai was arrested by police on Sunday. Sehrai was taken into custody from his residence at Baghat in Srinagar early in the morning and then booked under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA). The PSA allows the government to detain him up […]
Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir PK Pole told Kashmir Reader that his office has forwarded to the government a “review” that suggests lockdown should be imposed in the valley once again to contain the spread of Covid-19. Pole said that his office received requests from various civil society groups to re-impose lockdown in the valley, but […]
Srinagar: Life has fallen apart for Safoora and Azam, the two teenagers who lost their 50-year-old mother a week ago to pneumonia. For the duo, the irreparable loss has come at a time when their father, a senior Hurriyat leader associated with Syed Ali Geelani, remains jailed hundreds of miles away in Uttar Pradesh. “I […]
SRINAGAR: Life has fallen apart for Safoora and Azam, the two teenagers who lost their 50-year-old mother a week ago to pneumonia. For the duo, the irreparable loss has come at a time when their father, a senior Hurriyat leader associated with Syed Ali Geelani, remains jailed hundreds of miles away in Uttar Pradesh. “I […]
SRINAGAR: Bharatiya Janata Party General Secretary Ram Madhav is scheduled to travel the Valley on Sunday for a one day visit after three of his colleagues were killed in Bandipora. A source in BJP said that Madhav will pay a visit to the families of the slain BJP politicians, and hold a series of meetings […]
Srinagar: The rising number of Covid-19 cases and deaths seems to be no longer a matter of concern for people in Kashmir, which may prove to be a complacency quite dangerous in the coming weeks. At city centre Lal Chowk, where the precautionary measures should be iron strong, most of the daily business has resumed […]
Srinagar: An engineer-turned-entrepreneur is aiming to “reinvent the spices market in Kashmir” by introducing in the market 40 types of spices, many of them unknown to Kashmiris. The ambitious entrepreneur, Fadel Buch, has started with 16 traditional species, which include chilly, turmeric, cardamom, funnel, etc, but plans to add many more from Indian and foreign […]