Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

Jammu and Kashmir administration gears up to battle a surge in drug addiction

<p> Jammu and Kashmir has six lakh, comprising 4.6 percent of the Union Territory's population , who have been facing…

3 years ago

Former Deputy Chief Minster asked to demolish his Nagrota home as Jammu and Kashmir enforces Rule of Law

<p> Senior leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party, Dr Nirmal Singh, who has functioned as the erstwhile State’s Deputy Chief…

3 years ago

Srinagar joins UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network—an elite group of 295 world cities

<p> In a major achievement for India in an international competition, Srinagar—the summer capital of the Union Territory of Jammu…

3 years ago

Now Kashmir will have an elite terror investigation agency on the pattern of NIA

<p> Close on the heels of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s first visit to Jammu and Kashmir after it…

3 years ago

Back Story: Why some Kashmiris celebrated India’s T-20 loss to Pakistan

<p> Chief of the Islami Jamiat Talaba, the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Tajamul Islam,…

3 years ago

Amit Shah’s visit unlocks roadmap for new Kashmir

<p> When the Union Home Minister Amit Shah piloted the Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, seeking termination of the erstwhile…

3 years ago

India will only talk to Kashmiri youth, not Pakistan–Amit Shah

<p> On the third day of his visit to Jammu and Kashmir—his first after withdrawal of the erstwhile State’s special…

3 years ago

Amit Shah promises Metro to Jammu and Srinagar in two years to showcase new Kashmir

<p> If the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, currently on a 3-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, is to be…

3 years ago

Youth will steer the next phase of a new era in Kashmir—Amit Shah

<p> In his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir after the erstwhile State’s historic reorganisation 27 months back, Union Home…

3 years ago

Amit Shah heads to Kashmir after successfully changing facts on the ground

<p> Until August 2019, when Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status and reorganised into the two separate…

3 years ago

All set for historic flight from Sharjah to Srinagar as Amit Shah heads for Jammu and Kashmir

<p> Decks have been cleared for the historic launch  of Srinagar-Sharjah international flights during the Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s…

3 years ago

Bloodshed in Kashmir is the result of incentivising secessionism for 20 years

<p> New Delhi’s Kashmir policy, which is now widely criticised for its self-defeatist ingredients, will not change overnight. In reversal…

3 years ago

Is the current surge in terror attacks an attempt to sabotage Amit Shah’s Kashmir visit ?

<p> <strong>Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s scheduled visit for four days to Jammu and Kashmir later this month (Oct 22-25)…

3 years ago

Why targeted killing of minorities will not return Kashmir to the darkness of 1990

<p> Non-Muslim minorities were targeted in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir in 1990 with the intention of making the valley an independent…

3 years ago

Kashmir government planning major crackdown on terror ecosystem after seven civilians are killed in new ethnic cleansing wave

<p> The security forces, in coordination with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, are planning a major crackdown on the people…

3 years ago

Targeted killing of popular Pandit chemist in Srinagar draws condemnation, demands robust response

<p> Gunmen, whose identity was not immediately known but are widely thought to be the separatist militants, spread a wave…

3 years ago

Government re-opens doors for Kashmiri police officers to join IPS, 28 already benefit

<p> <strong>Opening the door for induction of in-service officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Police into the Indian Police Service…

3 years ago

Kashmir’s Tora Bora where beheading was a normal for 13 years

<p> On an election campaign trail, when I visited Sogam—the capital of the Kupwara district’s picturesque Lolab valley and the…

3 years ago

Slew of tunnels will permanetly end Ladakh’s isloation by December 2023

<p> When the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir was split into the two Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir…

3 years ago

Meet J&K’s ‘public servants’ who took salaries from India but worked for Pakistan

<p> <strong>After making amendments to conventional service rules, some two dozen government employees have been dismissed by the Jammu and…

3 years ago

In Kashmir, links between militants and government insiders are finally broken

<p> <strong>Termination of the services of six government employees by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday, 22 September, has sent…

3 years ago