Kashmir artisans, especially carpet weavers, are facing a tough time. The craft of carpet weaving is witnessing the worst slump ever. Kashmiri handmade carpets are famous all over the world, however, with
The 25 foreign diplomats today reached Srinagar to witness the ground situation after the abrogation of Article 370.The group includes envoys from European Union, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Netherlands and Bulgaria,
The rates of essential commodities including meat, vegetables, and fruits have skyrocketed in Kashmir due to frequent closure of Srinagar- Jammu national highway,
Normal life was disrupted in Kashmir on Sunday due to a strike called by separatists to protest the recent killings in the valley.The situation in the valley remained tense after 100 Companies
After the killing of 49 CRPF troopers in Lethpora suicide attack, Kashmiris in Jammu and elsewhere in the country have to face the public rage. Many Kashmiri students and shopkeepers were attacked
The famed Clock Tower, also known as Ghanta Ghar, at the Lal Chowk is again defunct.Last year, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) installed four new clocks on the tower that have been sponsored
On December 18, a 25-year-old Boniyar youth Azim Khan was found hanging in Baramulla. Azim had gone missing on December 13 after spending half the day in a gymnasium at Azad Gunj,
South and Central Kashmir witnessed as many as six encounters since Nov 20. 22 militants were killed, the slain included some top LeT and Hizb commanders. Among the 28 killed, 22 militants,
Outside the high walls of famed Harwan garden stands a makeshift apiary nestled under a towering mulberry tree.The air around it rings with the growing buzz, as Mohammad Shaban Kumar, an 80-year-old
As the valley is in full Ramadhan mode, people are thronging markets to buy food items and other essentials.Ramadhan in Kashmir is as much about eating as it is about fasting.Sehri (a
When one thinks of a white sheet of paper, all one can perhaps imagine are words or pictures scrawled across it. But a nineteen-year-old Mohsin Rashid has put paper to a different
The art of stone carving is practiced at various places in Kashmir with Pantha Chowk being its hub. However, the stone chiselers continue to work under tin sheets after being dislodged by
Haji Gulam Qadir Senoo has become popular as the 'pickle man of Kashmir', who has prepared more than a hundred varieties of delicious pickles that tickle the taste buds of the people