Life & Culture
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126Keyboard Crime On Rise in Kashmir
“Majority of complaints come from girls.” Rahiba R Parveen SRINAGAR: When many years ago the rest of India saw the Internet world...
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160The Ugly Face of Kashmir’s Beauty Parlours
Maria Latif SRINAGAR: That pretty hair coloured in streaks, make-up done. She flaunts it. But then slowly every day, Ruqaya Hamdani’s hair...
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Kashmir Administration Is a Government On The Move
SRINAGAR: Files dusted, paper clips packed into metal boxes and photocopying machines loaded onto 200 trucks lining a heavily-guarded road outside the...
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135Memory: Shoes, Bloody Cap Mark Spot of Bijbehara Massacre
Bijbehara town is observing a shutdown in memory of the scores of Muslim protestors shot dead by the BSF twenty years ago....
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Raid de Himalaya Brings Widespread Cheer to Mountain Folks
LEH: The Raid de Himalaya coincides with the first snow of the season and for motorsport lovers provides an opportunity to savour...
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Kargil Emerges Prime Tourist Terminus for Locals, Foreign Tourists
KARGIL: Describing Jammu and Kashmir a symbol of unity in diversity, the Minister for Tourism Ghulam Ahmad Mir said the state has...
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Eve in Distress: Domestic Violence on Rise in Kashmir
Rahiba R Parveen SRINAGAR: “Mamma has gone to take rest. She will be back on Eid,” says three-year-old Midha, when one asks...
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119Murder For Love: Numbers Grow in J&K
Rakib Altaf SRINAGAR: Passion crime killed more people than personal vendetta and property disputes did in Jammu and Kashmir last year, even...
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Autumn: Season of Plenty, Pleasure in Kashmir
Sheikh Qayoom SRINAGAR: Golden-brown rice fields, streams bringing down crystal-clear water from the mountains, cicada insects “singing” on willow treetrunks: these are...