Srinagar: The police in Jammu and Kashmir, mostly in the news for all the wrong reasons, are in the limelight this time. They have set up a drug de-addiction centre in the valley to help the youth. Faisal (name changed) says, "My friends gave me the pills... first, they gave me one tablet... I got addicted and then started to get used to drugs... When I tried to give up,...
09:34 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Mumbai: Indian Canadian actress Lisa Ray has got engaged. Her boyfriend Jason Dehni proposed to her in California's Napa Valley. "Just returned from the glorious Napa Valley - the gourmand's and wine-lovers' paradise. ENGAGED to the love of my life. Jason Dehni proposed in Napa. #happiestdayever", she wrote on her Twitter page. She also posted her picture with her beau. The actress was diagnosed with the rare cancer of plasma...
12:59 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed's first feature film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival which begins on January 19, 2012. The film was shot in Kashmir during the peak of unrest in 2010. It tells the story of a boatman who wants out of Kashmir but a beautiful young woman researching the dying Dal lake leads him to contemplate a different future. Later this month, the film...
05:59 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Srinagar: Mobile phones across the Kashmir Valley stopped functioning as service providers shut off connectivity as part of the high security drill for the 63rd Republic Day Thursday. Mobile phone services in Srinagar were withdrawn to prevent separatists from triggering electronically-controlled remote devices. "This is part of the standard security drill. The services will be restored immediately after the official parade ends here," an intelligence officer said. ...
10:55 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Srinagar: Kashmir remained cut off from the rest of the country for the second day on Monday as snowfall blocked the vital Srinagar-Jammu National highway and delayed all scheduled flights to the Valley. The snowfall, which began on Saturday night, continued overnight in most parts of the Valley including in the summer capital Srinagar, crippling normal life as most of the people preferred to remain indoors. However, the snowfall has...
12:01 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: 'Valley of Saints', a love story set in Kashmir is all set to compete for the top award in the World Dramatics category of Sundance Film Festival 2012. The film, directed by an American filmmaker Musa Sayeed, has earlier won Film Independent and Sloan Foundation Producer's Grant. 'Valley of Saints' is about a Kashmiri boatman Gulzar, who plans to run away from the war and poverty surrounding his...
12:07 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Islamabad: One of the bravest girls in Pakistan, who as a 11-year-old wrote about the Taliban banning girls' schools in the picturesque Swat Valley and missing watching her favourite Indian serial 'Raja Ki Ayegi Baraat', has been nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize. Malala Yousufzai, now 13, was a victim of the ban imposed by the Taliban on education for girls in the troubled Swat Valley over two years...
11:30 AM, Nov 21, 2011
Islamabad: At least 16 people were killed and nine injured on Sunday in two attacks in Pakistan's northwest tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a media report said. Eight people were killed and seven injured in a blast at a market in Teerah Valley area of Khyber Agency. Another eight people, including three children, were killed and two injured in a mortar shell attack in Sipah area of the same region, Xinhua...
03:30 PM, Nov 13, 2011
New Delhi: IAF search teams have found the remains of the pilot of the ill-fated MiG-29 fighter aircraft that crashed last month in Lahaul Valley in Himachal Pradesh. The remains of Squadron Leader Dharmendra Singh Tomar were found near Kherot village in the Chokhang hills at an altitude of 15,000-17,000 feet, Western Air Command spokesman Wing Commander SK Mehta said. The last village on this route is Kherot after which...
06:51 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Gurgaon: Excited members of American heavy metal band Metallica were looking forward to a "loud and explosive" performance for their Indian fans, just minutes before their gig here Friday was cancelled. The band's members include lead guitarist Kirk Hammett (who joined the band in 1983), bassist Robert Trujillo, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. They landed here on Friday. "Our music is head banging, loud and explosive that is exactly we...
12:11 PM, Oct 29, 2011
Washington: The United States has assured India that it was 'continuing to work' on the issue of hundreds of Indian students affected by the 'horrible visa scam' by California based 'sham' Tri-Valley University. Some 85 per cent of over 1500 TVU students were Indian, mostly from Andhra Pradesh. US authorities are reviewing a letter sent by the Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that...
11:10 AM, Oct 27, 2011
Srinagar: A mild intensity earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale rocked the Kashmir Valley on Saturday night, officials said in Srinagar. "The earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on Richter Scale occurred in Jammu and Kashmir at 8.52 pm," Natural Disaster Management Cell coordinator Aamir Ali said. He said there was no report of any loss caused by the mild tremor. ...
10:19 PM, Sep 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Shri Ram School in Delhi, Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh Chittoor and the Woodstock School in Mussoorie have been voted India's most respected day, boarding and international schools in the EducationWorld-C fore Schools Survey 2011. The survey has also effectively ended the four-year reign of Doon School, Dehradun (TDS) as the country's most respected traditional/legacy boarding school. The school boasts of many eminent students such as...
08:55 PM, Sep 14, 2011
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