ANANTNAG: Following the abrogation of Article-370, people here in south Kashmir were reluctant to rent their properties to non-locals, but with the killings of outsiders by unidentified gunmen in Pulwama and Shopian districts of the region, they are now fearful of doing the same. Non-locals from different states of India flock to Kashmir and work […]
PADGAMPORA: A 30-year-old man with 40 percent disability booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) is languishing in jail for more than two months. Shabir Ahmad Wani, a tailor hailing from Padgampora village of police district Awantipora, is also the lone bread earner for a family of nine. Shabir was picked up from his home in […]
Anantnag: Even as the skilled and unskilled laborers from other states are making their way back to Kashmir, locals here are reluctant to rent out their properties to them following abrogation of Article-370. Tens of thousands of people from states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have been coming to Valley every year, since late nineties. […]
Bijbehara: Three local militants, one of them a commander of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), were killed Wednesday in a fierce gunfight between with government forces, here in Bijbehara town of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. An army man was also injured during the gunfight, who was evacuated to a hospital and is said to be stable. Defense […]
Anantnag, October 16: Two non-locals were killed by unidentified gunmen in two separate incidents in south Kashmir’s Pulwama and Shopian districts. A non-local labourer was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Kakapora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district Wednesday. The slain, a worker at a local brick kiln, has been identified as 22-year-old Sethi Kumar […]
Anantnag: A year and half after it was thrown open for traffic, the Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of the new highway (NH-44) is still incomplete, with at least one fly-over pending, while the work is on halt for several months now. Stretches of NH-44 were thrown open for vehicular movement in April of 2018. Work on several […]
‘Situation not conducive for resuming service’
Anantnag: Suspension of train services in Kashmir since August 5 has caused major losses to Northern Railways both in terms of revenue and maintenance of trains as well as tracks. “We were told to snap train services and we followed the order,” a senior Railway official told Kashmir Reader. Train services were suspended on August […]
Anantnag: Amid the lockdown Kashmir valley has been witnessing since August 5, dozens of new bunkers have sprung up at several places along the Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of the newly constructed highway (NH-44). A drive along the stretch reveals that dozens of new, concrete bunkers have been constructed or are in the process of being constructed […]