Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today disclosed that in all, 363 militants, including 246 foreigners, and 71 civilians were killed during the last two years in the state. In all, 176 militants and suspects were also arrested in the state during the same period. The civilians were either killed by ultras or they lost their lives … Read more
Eight days after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced “sustained dialogue” on Jammu and Kashmir and appointed former Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director Dineshwar Sharma as Centre’s representative, the Valley separatists today dismissed the talks offer as futile exercise, read the reasons below: The three top separatist leaders of Valley including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali … Read more
Appointment of Dineshwar Sharma as Special Representative of the Centre is fifth major attempt by the Government of India during past about two decades to open channels of dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir to find out solution to Kashmir problem. KC Pant, former Defence Minister and NN Vohra, presently the J&K Governor were two first … Read more
The dream of Tanujim Myani, a student of New Tulip International School, Ahmedabad, finally came true after 3 years. On Monday, she hoisted the tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar and also celebrated the Raksha Bandhan festival. Tanzim had reached Srinagar last year also at the same time for the purpose but was sent back … Read more
Kashmir based organisations every year pay glowing tributes to “Martyrs of July 13, 1931”. Jammu Virasat decides to tell you the story behind the day and leave it to you as how you would like to treat those “martyrs”. Some background Maharaja Hari Singh had been popular among the masses for initial years of his … Read more