Srinagar, 09 Feb 2019:Lt Gen Kanwal Jeet Singh Dhillon took over as the 48th Corps Commander of the Srinagar based 15 Corps, also called the Chinar Corps, on 08th February 2019 from Lt Gen AK Bhatt. A befitting farewell was given to Lt Gen Bhatt who has moved to NewContinue Reading
During the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, in an era when there was no militancy in Kashmir, the valley was the place to go for filmmakers for shooting songs in particular. Then there came a period when thanks to rampant terrorism, the practice stopped and filmmakers took to shooting in SwitzerlandContinue Reading
Before the introduction and popularization of China-varieties, many indigenous landraces including Mushkbudji were grown on a large scale across Kashmir. More than 100 landraces have been documented from Kashmir valley, however, majority of them got fast replaced from farmer’s field by the high yielding varieties, and were pushed to someContinue Reading
Srinagar, Feb 09(KNB):The state of Jammu and Kashmir remains shut on Saturday observing the sixth death anniversary of Afzal Guru who was hanged and burried in Delhi’s Tihar jail on this day in 2013. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik hadContinue Reading
Sopore Feb 09 (KNB) : Irfan Ahmed, a seven year old boy died on spot after being hit by a snow slide in Cherhar village of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday. As per the reports, the boy Irfan Ahmed Khan son of Ghulam Hassan Khan of CherharContinue Reading