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 Mobile phone services in Srinagar were withdrawn to prevent separatists from triggering electronically-controlled remote devices.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
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
Srinagar: Five militants and an Army officer were killed and two jawans injured as troops on Saturday foiled a major infiltration bid near the Line of Control in Gurez sector of Kashmir Valley. A large group of heavily-armed militants was trying to sneak into the Gurez Valley from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir when they were noticed by troops. The militants were challenged by the soldiers, leading to a gunbattle. "Five militants have...
06:11 PM, Aug 20, 2011
![]()
As the years have passed, what amazes me is the perseverance of journalists who continue to cover the story. There's even an irrational hope that ...
03:46 PM, May 22, 2011
![]()
Perhaps the darkest period in this regard came in the late 90s and 2000, when militancy driven by the Lashkar-e-Toiba was at a peak. The ...
03:54 PM, May 21, 2011
![]()
The militants we met were probably the last batch of fully home-grown insurgents fighting in Kashmir. 1995 marked the takeover of the struggle by non-Kashmiri ...
03:45 PM, May 20, 2011
Srinagar: An earthquake of 4.9 magnitude on Saturday shook the Kashmir Valley but there were no reports of any loss in the tremor, officials said here. The moderate intensity tremor, which was recorded at 3.09 am this morning, had its epicentre in Hindukush mountain range in Afghanistan, Coordinator of Disaster Management Cell Aamir Ali said. He said the location of epicentre was 36.58 north (Longitude) and 70.93 east (Latitude). Kashmir...
11:36 AM, May 14, 2011
Srinagar: Two moderate intensity earthquakes were felt in the Kashmir Valley but there were no reports of any damage, officials said. An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 occurred on Saturday morning, at 9.24 am. The epicentre was located at Ladakh-China (Xinjiang) border, the officials said. On Friday night also at 7 pm, an earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred with epicentre at Hindukush in Afghanistan shook the Valley. There were no reports...
01:43 PM, Apr 02, 2011
New Delhi: A spring in the Hindu goddess Ragnya Devi temple at khirbhawani, about 27 km from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, changes its colours from time to time. It takes on various hues like red, pink, orange, green, blue and has often light green, red rosy and milky white shades. It is being said that the colour of the spring remained black in the year 1947...
05:59 PM, Mar 24, 2011
Srinagar: Terrorism is not the only worry for the people of Kashmir, the number of cancer cases especially breast cancer is on the rise. The doctors say that the alarming rise in cancer in Kashmir is due to sedentary lifestyle and thoughtless food habits. Thirty-five year Saira Bano is suffering from blood cancer, when the fatal ailment was diagnosed in 2010, she was already in the last stage. The family...
11:07 AM, Mar 14, 2011
New Delhi: The recently unearthed Hawala trail in the Kashmir valley points to money being allegedly passed to senior Hurriyat leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani following which the separatist leader has been asked not to leave Delhi to face investigations. Sensing trouble, the Hurriyat faction led by Geelani, who is leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, attempted to downplay the investigations in the Hawala case and announced a bandh call in the...
08:18 PM, Feb 21, 2011
Srinagar: More than 8,000 Kashmiri young men on Saturday thronged a recruitment rally in Kashmir Valley's Ganderbal district to join the Indian Army. Braving rain and sleet, the youths reached the Manasbal Sainik School in north Kashmir early morning hoping to join the million-strong army. The recruitment is being held to recruit soldiers from Srinagar and Anantnag districts. Similar drives will be held for other districts in the valley in...
05:50 PM, Feb 19, 2011
Srinagar: People in the Kashmir valley have come out to protest the indifference shown by the government and separatist leaders over the murder of two sisters by militants four days ago even as the separatists have called for a shutdown in Sopore on Friday. Four days after two the sisters were gunned down by militants for allegedly being police informants in Sopore, locals held a sit-in at a Srinagar park...
09:08 AM, Feb 04, 2011
Srinagar: Chilly winds and freezing temperatures continued in the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Sunday. Leh was a chilling minus 12.6 degrees Celsius while Srinagar saw thick fog. "The minimum temperature in Srinagar was minus 3.1 degrees Celsius today (Sunday)," an official of the weather office told IANS. "It was minus 12.6 in Leh and minus 10.2 in Kargil town of Ladakh region," he said. "The temperature dipped...
10:47 AM, Dec 26, 2010
displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of CNN-IBN does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them.
Disclaimer: Network18 Media & Investments Limited is proposing, subject to market conditions and other considerations, an offer of its equity shares on rights basis and has filed a Draft Letter of Offer with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. The Draft Letter of Offer is available on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in and the websites of the Lead Managers at www.icicisecurities.com and www.rbs.in Investors should note that investment in equity shares involves a high degree of risk and are requested to refer to "Risk Factors" in the Draft Letter of Offer. The Equity Shares have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act"), or any state securities laws in the United States and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, "U.S. persons" (as defined in Regulation S under the US Securities Act) except in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the US Securities Act and in accordance with any applicable U.S. state securities laws.
Disclaimer: TV18 Broadcast Limited is proposing, subject to market conditions and other considerations, an offer of its equity shares on rights basis and has filed a Draft Letter of Offer with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. The Draft Letter of Offer is available on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in and the websites of the Lead Managers at www.icicisecurities.com and www.rbs.in Investors should note that investment in equity shares involves a high degree of risk and are requested to refer to "Risk Factors" in the Draft Letter of Offer. The Equity Shares have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act"), or any state securities laws in the United States and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, "U.S. persons" (as defined in Regulation S under the US Securities Act) except in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the US Securities Act and in accordance with any applicable U.S. state securities laws.
