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Two Months After His “Mysterious” Death, City Boy Passes His 12th With Flying Colours Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: As the results of class 12 examinations were declared by the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, the morning turned out to be mourning for the family of Mubashir Sajad Dar, 19. A resident of Nawpora, Dar passed his examinations with distinction scoring 439 out of 500. Mubashir Sajad Dar a resident of Khanyar who died mysteriously on December 28, 2020 year when he...

‘Our Mother Tongue Is Far More Than A Means Of Communication’ Asiya Hassan, Khalid Bashir Gura KASHMIR LIFE (KL): How can you be described and how this idea of getting mother-tongue into the digital world initiated? ASIYA HASSAN (AS): My name is Asiya Hassan, born in Wuyan-Pampore. I have lived in Kashmir till my fifth standard of schooling. Later we moved to Malaysia, where I completed high school and graduated in Graphic Design. Currently, I am pursuing my masters in Kuala Lumpur....

Two Toppers Tell Their Tales of Struggle And Success To Be Matriculates Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: The queries and anxieties of Kashmir’s tenth-graders were finally settled when the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) declared results on the morning of Feb 26. As soon as results were declared, the phones did not stop to ring. The homes of passing students wore a festive look. The sweet shops witnessed a rush as relatives, neighbours, and friends poured into congratula...

Home / General / The Speaker National Assembly invited the policy experts and practitioners to critically analyze the National Assembly Committee’s proposed agricultural growth strategy The Speaker National Assembly invited the policy experts and practitioners to critically analyze the National Assembly Committee’s proposed agricultural growth strategy Islamabad, February 18, 2021 (PPI-OT): The Speaker National Assembly invited the policy experts and practitioners to critically analyze the ...

Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: On February 13, the Lok Saha passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2021 that replaced an ordinance merging the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) cadre of civil services officers with the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre. Justifying the cadre integration, Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said the government was working to take Jammu and Kashmir on the path to development and around 170 central laws are being implemented...

Delhi Court Summons Kanhaiya Kumar, Others on March 16 in 2016 JNU Sedition Case The case has been delayed because the request for sanction to prosecute was pending before the Delhi government for a long time Kanhaiya Kumar. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Rights16/Feb/2021 New Delhi: Five years later, Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others who had faced sedition charges for a 2016 event on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus will be facing trial and have been summoned by a Delhi court. The Delh...

Khalid Bashir NAMING and renaming places and old or new infrastructure by a government is a common practice all over the world. However, it is not always that these officially assigned names click with the people. In Kashmir, there are several instances when christening or rechristening of places, roads and bridges by a government has failed to meet public acceptance. In olden times, Kashmir was divided into two parts – Kamraz and Maraz – representing the north and south parts of the Vall...

Next date of hearing on March 15 A Delhi court has taken cognizance of a chargesheet filed by Delhi Police against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in a 2016 sedition case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma also summoned all 10 accused in the case to appear before the court on March 15, the next date of hearing. The court’s order came almost a year after Delhi government gave its nod to police to prosecute Mr. Kuma...

Mixing modern melody with prose and poetry, Kashmir’s new-age singers and musicians have resurrected folk songs in a different way. Creating their own platforms, this new breed of artists is reaching out to audiences using social media. While keeping alive art and culture of the place, they are finding success as well, reports Khalid Bashir Gura  Photographs of the Kashmiri singers whose numbers figured in the top 10, most-watched numbers on the internet in 2020. Graphics: Malik Kaisar As t...

Interested In Nature And In Love With Insects, Kashmiri Student Receives Young Naturalist Award Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: Fascinated by the world of insects, a little boy was always wondering about the way these small creatures lived. Critical to the existence of the world, he was curious to know more about their life. The way they communicate, fly and sleep. In his growing years, he used to grab magnifying glasses to follow them everywhere. Curiosity continued. Suhaib Firdous Yatoo A...