Rains lashed Kashmir today, with the Weatherman predicting more showers until the month’s end. Night temperatures rose across the Valley. Srinagar saw a minimum of 9.8°C, up from 9.5°C the previous night,
Srinagar: Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) for Law & Order Vijay Kumar today assured a secure and fair electoral environment for all stakeholders. Kumar, who is also a State Police Nodal
JAMMU, MARCH 28: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today had a detailed review of the development of the Skilling portal for the Skill Development Department (SDD) by Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications
Faiz Ahmed Faiz—the poet, teacher, editor, freedom-fighter, dramatist, critic, progressive writer and Lenin Peace Prize recipient—is one of the greatest poets of the Indian subcontinent. He was not a mere dreamer of
Khushwant Singh was born on February 2 1915 in Punjab province of Pakistan and after the partition he migrated from newly formed state to India.Khushwant Singh is considered India’s best known writer,columnist
The Basohli style of painting is a school of the Pahari Miniature that was hugely popular in the 17th and early 18th centuries in states at the Himalayan foothills, in India. The
SalahuddinParvez, an Indian Muslim poet and filmmaker, used to publish a magazine named Istaara in 1990s. It stopped being published after his death. But two intellectuals from Lahore, Dr AmjadTufail and Riaz
The partition of the Punjab and the communal holocaust which followed has baffled and puzzled scholars for the last seventy years. On one side, some have argued that it was a time
Here is a counter-factual: If Rahul Gandhi had not been Congress president, would the prime minister have spoken recently in parliament of how Vallabhbhai Patel would have made a better prime minister
It is a loss to Indian historiography that more Indians didn’t write memoirs. Fewer still left papers for interested posterity to sift through. David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn talk of the importance
As a three-member bench of the Supreme Court begins hearing the final arguments in the Ayodhya dispute from February 8, it is instructive to recall how the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the
PM Modi’s speeches in both the Houses of Indian Parliament on February 7, 2017 while defending Motion of Thanks on President Ram Nath Kovind’s address belied hope which some political analystscarried that
Boldness was the theme. First, BJP president Amit Shah brought out the big guns to demolish the Congress, an attack somewhat muffled by Ghulam Nabi Azad’s deft footwork, terming the successor government