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Persian cats to German Shepherds: Kashmiris turn to pets for coping with depression

by Hirra AzmatJammu and kashmirKashmirKashmir NewsLatest NewsNewsSeptember 4, 2020September 4, 2020

Srinagar: Rihana Raheem, 15, was unable to get over the loss of her grandmother due to COVID in July. She found herself becoming reclusive by the day. This was when…

Visually challenged Kashmiri Pandit girl clears board exams, tops school living in a migrant camp at Jammu

by Ishfaq-ul-HassanLatest NewsLead StoriesNewsJune 29, 2020June 29, 2020

Srinagar: It has been years when a non-descript two-room flat at the migrant colony in Jagati reverberated with laughs.   Come Sunday, cheers and claps echoed through the walls as people…

Kashmiri youngster striving to fulfill Olympic dream

by Monitor News BureauSportsJune 10, 2020June 10, 2020

By Nadiya Altaf The young proficient graduate and a solitary participant in Taekwondo from North Kashmir Baramulla is on rise. 23-year old Danish an aspiring and fearless player of India…

Remember Amul’s Kashmir advt last year? Now its China cartoon leads to Twitter blocking it

by Monitor News BureauBusinessLatest NewsNewsJune 6, 2020June 6, 2020

Srinagar: The Twitter account of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, owner of the Amul brand, was blocked briefly after it posted a cartoon apparently calling for a boycott of…

Kashmiri businessman out to fetch sehri thrashed by goons in Mumbai

by Nisar DharmaIndiaLatest NewsNewsMay 18, 2020May 18, 2020

Srinagar: A Kashmiri businessman was beaten by goons during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday when he was coming back after buying food outside his apartment in Mumbai. Mohammad…

Pulitzer comes home: For TV channels, winning journalism’s Nobel is no news

by Ishfaq-ul-HassanIndiaLatest NewsNewsMay 5, 2020May 5, 2020

Srinagar:  An eerie silence has enveloped the national television channels after three Associated Press (AP) photojournalists from Jammu and Kashmir were declared winners of 2020 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography….

Watch: Return of Kashmiri folktales via Oxford

by Hirra AzmatLatest NewsLead StoriesVideosApril 23, 2020April 23, 2020

Srinagar: Amid COVID-19 gloom, an Oxford returned Kashmiri storyteller Onaiza Drabu takes her readers down the memory lane rescuing some forgotten Kashmiri folktales like `The legend of Himal and Nagrai’ from…

‘First batch of 52 Kashmiri students to reach Sgr from Rajasthan today’

by Monitor News BureauLatest NewsApril 15, 2020April 15, 2020

Srinagar: The first batch of 52 students who were airlifted from Iran and were put under quarantine in an army facility at Jaisalmeer, Rajasthan, are expected to arrive in Srinagar today,…

Goons attack Kashmiri labourers in HP, six injured

by Ishfaq-ul-HassanLatest NewsLead StoriesApril 13, 2020April 13, 2020

SRINAGAR:  Six laborers from the Chenab Valley were seriously injured when a group of youth stormed their residential quarter and attacked them with iron rods and sticks at Pundo-Barote in Himachal…

Saudi suspends entry for Umrah pilgrimage-300 Kashmiri pilgrims to return soon

by Firdous HassanLead StoriesFebruary 28, 2020February 27, 2020

Srinagar, Feb 27: More than 300 Kashmiri Umrah pilgrims are likely to return from Saudi Arabia after undergoing medical examination in the kingdom. This follows Riyadh’s decision to suspend Umrah…