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The Kashmir valley suffered a devastating flood in September 2014. After an unusually high level of rainfall, the fact that buildings had been built on flood overflow channels and floodplains led to a catastrophe, resulting in more than 190 deaths in the valley and damage estimated at Rs 1 ...

In 2014, Abdul Rahim Rather won South Kashmir’s Kokernag assembly seat as a candidate of the People’s Democratic Party. It was his maiden victory. But like every other legislator in Jammu and Kashmir, he could not complete his term. On August 5, 2019, the central government dissolved the Jammu ...

In a veiled reference, India on Monday described Pakistan as the “epicentre of terrorism” and called on the international community to take action without delay against the terror outfits allegedly operating under its control.At the United Nations Security Council meeting of Counter-Terrorism Committee, Counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission to ...

As many as 39 memorandums of understanding, or MoUs, worth Rs 18,300 crore were signed at the “Real Estate Summit-2021” held at Jammu on Monday, the Jammu and Kashmir government said.The summit was a push to attract real estate investments from across the country. In October last year, Union ...

In advertisements published in at least three local dailies in Kashmir on December 12, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have warned social media users of cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Carried on the front page of the newspapers, they warn social media users “supporting and promoting terror ...

In a video released by the Indian Army on Wednesday, a Pakistani militant captured near the Line of Control in Kashmir appeals to his alleged handlers in Pakistan to take him back to his mother. “I appeal to the Lashkar-e-Taiba area commander, the ISI ...

Despite what they insisted as they swept through Afghanistan, the Taliban appear to have remained largely the same since the days they ruled the roost in the 1990s. But Afghan society has changed tremendously since they were ousted by the United States-led invasion in 2001. This is shown by ...

Born in blood, fuelled by revenge and sustained by hubris, the “War on Terror” left nothing but shattered nations and lost lives in its wake. The occupation that began with the whine of B-52 bombers and the rout of the Taliban ends with the death of dozens at the ...

At the time of his wife’s sudden death in 2019, Mohammad Rafiq Shagoo didn’t think that seeking a police investigation into the incident would be much trouble.As it turns out, it took a two-year legal struggle for the 43-year-old grocery-store owner to get the police to begin an inquiry ...

Gulan Allah Baksh can share plenty of reasons for why life is tough in Rato Khan Rind, a village in Pakistan’s coastal belt, just 7-km from the Arabian Sea. “We have no gas, no metal roads, no employment,” she said. But water problems top the list. “Either there is ...