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5.4KMeet Kashmir’s ‘Tyrion Lannister’ who’s enduring the real life ‘Game of Thrones’
Lately when an ace Bollywood director posted a picture on Instagram and Facebook with the tagline, ‘With Tyrion Lannister at Pahalgam festival’,...
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3.5KAmid politicization, how’s UNHCR tackling the Rohingya refugee crisis in Jammu
Even as 5000 Rohingya Muslims are living in slums across Jammu bereft of proper living conditions, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR...
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5.5KBeyond Bipin Rawat’s remarks, Kashmir’s education system does need control
Fearing ‘radicalization’, the Indian army chief lately asked for control in Kashmir’s schools. But beyond the military talk, the Valley-based schools do...
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5.8KA memorial for the man who erected the Gaw Kadal memorial stone
To crystallize the memory of the first militancy-era massacre, a youth erected a memorial stone at Basant Bagh. Years later, after he...
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13.8KThe day before the Gaw Kadal Massacre: What happened inside cordoned Chota Bazaar?
New Delhi finally had its way when Srinagar was handed over to CRPF with Jagmohan’s appointment on Jan 19, 1990. The same...
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7.9KInside the ‘silent before the storm’ world of Kashmiri Fidayeen
After two Kashmiri Fidayeen stormed the southern military training centre at the turn of the New Year, the Valleys’ military landscape is...
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12.2KDenied a scholarship, this Kashmiri girl decided to expose ‘Favouritism’ at SAARC
Her meritorious journey faced a hiccup when lesser deserving candidates managed to get the SAARC medical scholarship over her. But rather than...
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2.7KTo the Sound of Kettledrums: The Prophet’s birthday, on December 30, in Jakarta
The night is dark in Bekasi, 14 miles east of Jakarta. Last daily worship of Muslims, the Isha prayer, has just finished....
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9.5KThe Turks of Old City and their 500-yr-old crumbling ‘aroma’ empire
Followers of Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, the Kozgars came to Kashmir from Turkey some 500 years ago and settled in Old Srinagar...
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5.1KWhy ‘tourism mascots’ Adnan Sami and Lucky Ali failed to lift the mood at Ghat No. 27
Using Music for politics, this fall, the Indian musicians arrived in the security-ringed SKICC to entertain a select few, while the Shikara...
