Geologists believe that about
ten crore years have passed when Kashmir Valley which was once a
lake called Satisar, the lake of goddess Sati, came into its
present form. For hundreds of million years Kashmir Valley is
supposed to have remained under Tethys Sea and the high
sedimentary-rock hills seen in the valley now were once under
water. Geologists...more
India formally proposed talks with Pakistan for the first time since
the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that were planned on its
neighbor's soil, raising hopes that frosty relations between the
nuclear-armed rivals could begin to thaw....More Archive
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Srinagar: Stone pelting in Kashmir
valley appears to be fast turning into a lucrative 'business' for
some unemployed youths offering this 'service' for a price....More
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Story of the Week
Last week's offer of
renewed talks between India and Pakistan remains mere rhetoric in
the absence of any real progress on the core issues plaguing the
bilateral relationship and with the reluctance of either side to
seek a new approach to address areas of contention.....More
New Delhi : Jammu and Kashmir Chief MinisterOmar Abdullah today said that the initiative taken by the
Government of India for talks with moderate Hurriyat leaders has
been a significant move. “For achieving a lasting and enduring
solution to the problems in the state political interaction is
imperative.....More
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Top Story
THERE is much news for our great
military strategists, both very good and very bad indeed. First the
good news. The high command of the Pakistan Army needn’t overly
worry about the Afghan army ‘taking on’ Pakistan in the foreseeable
future...More
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Kashmir Wazwan
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Srinagar
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Jammu and Kashmir to
conduct head count of youth who crossed over to Pakistan occupied
Kashmir
Editorial
Are Peace and
Kashmir two banks of a river that shall never meet? Is normalcy in
Kashmir a utopian dream? It seems so. Everytime when there is a
movement towards re-conciliation, dialogue or peace processsome elements amongst us get influenced by outside forces and
leave no stone unturned to thwart the positive initiatives....
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A couple of years ago when President
Bush visited New Delhi he pointed towards Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh to say that here was a person who had no Taliban in his
country...More
In an interview with RFE/RL, North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) secretary general Anders Fogh
Rasmussen said that he expected concrete results from this week's
London conference on Afghanistan....More
