Opinion: World Environment Day: Challenges to reconnect with Nature

  Since 1972 World Environment Day is celebrated over the world to raise awareness about forests and wider issues of environmental protection. The  theme of this year’s World  Environment Day is ‘Connecting People to Nature’. It implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and to take forward the call to […]

NIA continues raids on pro-freedom leaders, businessmen

National Investigation Agency (NIA) team, on Sunday, continued to raid the residences of pro-freedom leaders and businessman for allegedly getting funds from Pakistan for creating unrest in the Valley last year. The NIA started with the raids on the houses of pro-freedom leaders and businessman on Saturday following the sting operation carried out by a […]

Irrigation Department fails to restore water in irrigation canal, Kangan farmers in a fix

With paddy growing season round the corner, farmers in the Kangan area of Ganderbal district are running since many months from pillar to post to get irrigation facilities for their paddy land. The farmers from Kangan said that the Irrigation Department has failed to restore water in a local and major irrigation canal, Baba canal, […]

Centre heading towards setting Kashmir on fire: Rahul

  Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday stated that he was brushed off by Defence Minister Arun Jaitley months ago, when he had warned him that the Centre is heading towards ‘setting Kashmir on fire’. “Around six, seven months ago, Mr. Arun Jaitley came to see me and I told him that they are […]

JRL to meet today over NIA raids

  Though the National Investigation Team (NIA) started raiding the houses of pro-freedom leaders and businessmen in the Valley, the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) Sunday decided to hold a joint meet to discuss the situation and its implications on Kashmiris. According to a statement issued here, the joint leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz […]

Rajnath Singh warns Pakistan over disturbance in peace

  Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday warned Pakistan over its “repeated attempts to disturb peace” in Kashmir, saying the Indian forces won’t count bullets if Pakistan fires even once. “Pakistan is trying to disturb peace and tranquility in Jammu and Kashmir time and again, but this practice will not continue for long,” Singh […]