Nisar Dharma

A journalist by chance with over six years of experience in reporting, editing, and curating content. Nisar has dual Masters Degrees in Mass Communication and Journalism, and English Literature. He has covered education, health, politics, and human rights. He likes working for a daily, though occasionally tries his pen in long-form to connect personal narratives with history. Nisar loves reading, and re-reading Orwell.
Kashmiris stranded outside the valley brought back by government queuing up for screening at a COVID facilitation Centre in Srinagar in June (File Photo: KM/Umar Ganie)

‘Switched off’, ‘out of coverage area’: Stranded Kashmiris suffer as officials go incommunicado

Srinagar: Amid COVID-19 lockdown, thousands of Kashmiris stranded in other states of India are left confused about their possible evacuation by the J&K government as most designated officials remain unreachable. The phone…
Encounter site at Beighpora, Awantipora, Pulwama where Hizb Chief Operational Commander Riyaz Naikoo and his aide were killed on May 6, 2020 (Photo: KM/Umar Ganie)

Naikoo was hiding between ‘false walls’, police had captured person who’d built hideout

Srinagar: The hideout of Hizb operational commander Riyaz Naikoo was constructed between two “false walls” in a house and police had captured the person who had built it, a top police officer…
In this photo clicked on July 30 2017, Hizb militant commander Riyaz Naikoo is seen addressing a gathering during the funeral of militant Shariq Ahmad in Pulwama. Naikoo was killed in Beighpora area of Awantipora on Wednesday, May 06, 2020. (File Photo KM/Umar Ganie)

Hizb Chief Riyaz Naikoo, aide killed in Awantipora gunbattle

Srinagar: Security forces dealt a major blow to Hizbul Mujahedeen on Wednesday when they killed its chief operations commander Riyaz Ahmad Naikoo in an encounter at Beighpora, Awantipora in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Naikoo,…
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