Tag: Famed

"Only two weeks ago, a box of Kashmiri apples would sell at 1,000-1,300 rupees in India's fruit markets," says Ahmad Bashir, president of the Kashmir Valley Fruit Growers Cum Dealer Union (KVFG). "Now, it is being sold at 800 rupees a box, which does not even cover the cost of ...

Guroora/Bandipora: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang Kundbarao Pole said that the government is going to construct a non-motorable walkway around the Asia’s famed Wular lake in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of Wular festival organised by Wular Battalion, 26-Asam Rifles and district administration Bandipora on ...

ANKARA The famed multicourse cuisine of scenic Kashmir Valley in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir – wazwan, known for soothing taste buds - is believed to have also turned political tables and at times upset global diplomacy with far-reaching consequences over the past 70 years.In December 1955, when erstwhile Soviet ...

President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday inaugurated the renovated Sri Ramna Kali Mandir here, 50 years after it was destroyed by the Pakistani forces in 1971, and described the temple as the symbol of the cultural and spiritual bonding among the people of India and Bangladesh.President Kovind is in ...

The woman’s first doppa was embroidered with a rose bed and intertwining black leaves — a motif signifying beauty, spiritual connectedness and resistance.The doppa, a traditional skullcap worn across Central Asia, was passed down to the woman, Subhi Bora, as a girl by her mother, who is Uyghur, a ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — The fig tree, four stories high and almost a century old, its arched branches forming a giant canopy, has served as a landmark for generations of Kenyans in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Westlands in the capital, Nairobi.“Not all trees have the same status,” said Peter ...

Karachi: India-born renowned Pakistani Shia scholar Allama Zameer Akhtar Naqvi has died here following a heart attack. He was 76. Naqvi, who was born in 1944 in Lucknow where he studied until graduation and moved to Karachi in 1967, breathed his last late on Saturday night, Dawn reported ...