http://www.samachaar.in Smachaar.in en-us 2010 Samachaar.In Mon, 21 May 2012 04:12:44 GMT Mon, 21 May 2012 04:12:44 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/LeT_militant_killed_in_a_shootout_128344 Jammu: Security forces have killed a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant in a shootout in the jungles of Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir early Monday.Akhtar Hussain was involved in the killing of a soldier a couple of months ago, said an a... Mon, 21 May 2012 04:12:44 GMT http://samachaar.in/Health/Kashmir_hospital_chief_removed_over_368_kids_deaths__128262 Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government Thursday removed the medical superintendent of G.B. Pant Hospital in Srinagar where 368 children have died since Jan 1 this year.Health and Medical Education Secretary M.K. Dwivedi told reporters her... Fri, 18 May 2012 04:47:14 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Explosiveladen_car_detected_in_Srinagar_128256 Srinagar: A major tragedy was averted with the timely detection of an explosive-laden car here Thursday evening, police said.The abandoned Maruti 800 car was detected in Chanapora area, 5 km from city centre Lal Chowk, a senior police officer told ... Fri, 18 May 2012 04:26:55 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Kashmiri_wrestlers_invited_to_IndiaPakistan_event_128173 Jammu: Top wrestlers from Jammu and Kashmir will participate in an India-Pakistan event to be organised by the Pakistan Style Wrestling Association in the first week of July.Shiv Kumar Sharma, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Indian Style W... Mon, 14 May 2012 06:22:55 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Six_terrorists_killed_on_Kashmir_border_128167 Srinagar: The death toll in Thursday's gunfight on Jammu and Kashmir's border has risen to six, and Indian troops are searching the area for more bodies, an official said Saturday.The incident took place at Uri in Baramulla district along th... Sat, 12 May 2012 11:59:57 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Probe_exonerates_Omar_in_party_activists_death_127838 Srinagar: National Conference activist Haji Yusuf died a natural death, a magisterial probe has said while exonerating Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his close aides in the case. The contents of the report were made public... Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:41:09 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/_Weatherman_forecasts_cold_week_for_Kashmir_127716 Srinagar: The cold weather would continue for at least another week across the Kashmir Valley, said the weather office here Thursday.  "The present weather system is likely to continue for another week. There will be occasional sunsh... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:06:38 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/SrinagarLeh_highway_opens_for_light_vehicles_127661 Srinagar: The strategic Srinagar-Leh highway was opened for traffic Wednesday after a nearly five-month winter break, said a senior army officer."For the next one week, only light vehicles will be allowed on the highway," Brigadier T.P... Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:23:47 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/For_12_years_Kashmir_widow_hunts_for_missing_son_127576 Srinagar: Twelve years after her son was allegedly arrested by the Nepal police, Zubeida, a 65-year-old Kashmiri widow, has said that she has been running from pillar to post to know his whereabouts.Ghulam Muhammad Sofi, a Kashmiri handicraft tr... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:27:39 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Amarnath_pilgrimage_registration_from_May_7_127530 Jammu: The Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) Saturday announced that the registration for the annual pilgrimage to the cave shrine devoted to Lord Shiva will start May 7.The annual pilgrimage is scheduled to start June 25, but the registratio... Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:38:27 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Ripples_of_Afghan_violence_can_reach_Kashmir_127330 Srinagar: Recent events in Afghanistan will have a long term bearing on Kashmir, Lt Gen S.A. Hasnain, general officer commanding (GOC) the army's Srinagar based 15th corps, said here Monday.Addressing the media here, Lt Gen Hasnain said in reply... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:54:30 GMT http://samachaar.in/Srinagar/Kashmiri_Sikhs_give_demands_charter_to_Chidambaram_127182 Srinagar: A Kashmir Sikh group met union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to demand clemency for five Sikhs who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in 1984 and action against those responsible for the killing of seven people in the 2000 Pathribal sho... Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:26:50 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Government_employees_protest_in_Srinagar_127038 Srinagar: Scores of Jammu and Kashmir government employees Tuesday took to the streets in Srinagar, accusing the state government of insensitiveness towards their problems.Police intervened in Shahid Gunj area of the city to stop the employee... Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:22:13 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Chidambaram_in_Jammu_visits_Vaishno_Devi_127010 Jammu: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram arrived here Tuesday for a daylong visit to review the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir and also pay obeisance at the Vaishno Devi shrine.Chidambaram began his visit by undertaking the journey... Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:33:12 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/_Pakistani_caught_while_crossing_LoC_126974 Jammu: Soldiers deployed on the Line of Control (LoC), which divides Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan, Monday caught a Pakistani trying to sneak into India, an army spokesperson said.  Troops stationed in Poonch district, abou... Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:02:06 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Separatist_shutdown_affects_life_in_Srinagar_126907 Srinagar: Life across Srinagar and other towns of Kashmir Valley were affected Saturday by a shutdown called by hardline senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani against the conviction of Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai by a US court last ... Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:33:51 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/475_special_police_officers_killed_in_Kashmir_militancy_126639 Jammu: Since the eruption of militancy in the 1990s, over 475 Special Police Officers (SPOs), who are temporary recruits assisting regular police in anti-militancy operations in Jammu and Kashmir, have lost their lives out of a total of 6,000 s... Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:20:46 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Five_LeT_guerrillas_killed_in_Kashmir_gunfights_126533 Srinagar: Five Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrillas were killed in two separate gunfights with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district Wednesday, police said.Three militants were killed in Kupwara's Zachaldara forest area, about 1... Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:04:39 GMT http://samachaar.in/Weather/Fresh_snowfall_in_Ladakh_rain_in_Kashmir_126449 Srinagar: As fresh snowfall lashed the Ladakh region, the minimum temperature dropped to minus 3.8 degrees Celsius in Kargil town Monday, making it the coldest in Jammu and Kashmir."The minimum temperature was minus 3.8 degrees in Kargil t... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:02:08 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/_Omar_faces_criticism_from_allies_opposition_alike_126444 Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir's ruling alliance has once again come under the scanner with Congress leader and union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad lashing out at the state government, led by National Conference ally, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.&nbs... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:56:25 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/9_killed_in_two_road_accidents_in_Jammu_region_126379 Jammu: At least nine people were killed and 29 injured in two separate accidents on mountainous roads in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday.Police officials told IANS that a private bus carrying 35 passengers, all of them Bihari lab... Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:01:26 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/1_killed_15_injured_in_south_Kashmir_blast_126289 Srinagar: One person was killed and 15 others were injured in a car-bomb explosion in south Kashmir's Anantnag district Thursday, police said.A senior police officer told IANS: "A bomb planted inside a parked Maruti car went off in Bijbehar... Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:26:58 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Floating_protest_Kashmir_houseboat_owners_cry_foul_126114 Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir's famed houseboats were the focus of a unique protest here Monday with dozens of owners moving around in shikaras (boats) on the Jhelum river against the government's decision to de-register damaged houseboats.Housebo... Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:59:04 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Army_chief_reviews_Jammu_security_126037 Jammu: The Indian Army chief, Gen. V.K. Singh paid a day's visit to the cantonement town of Nagrota near here to "review the security situation and the steps in place to check infiltration" from Pakistan across the Line of Control (LoC... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:24:01 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Tension_spilling_over_to_Jammu_126003 Jammu: Tension prevailed in the Jammu region Friday following clashes between protestors and police a day earlier in the border town of Rajouri, which has seen communal anger in the past week.The Jammu and Kashmir government has deputed two Nat... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:13:01 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Kashmir_cricket_body_lodges_report_with_police_125660 Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) has filed a police complaint seeking a probe into the alleged bungling of its funds, amounting to several crores of rupees, which was detected recently, an official said Saturday.JKCA Chai... Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:39:48 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/__Curfew_continues_in_Rajouri_town_20_arrested_125629 Jammu: The authorities in the sensitive border town of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir enforced strict curfew restrictions second day Friday following communal clashes Wednesday evening.  Rajouri Deputy Commissioner G.A. Khwaja told media pe... Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:26:16 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/_Four_to_stand_trial_for_funding_Kashmir_terror_125395 New Delhi: A Delhi court Saturday framed charges against Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, suspected aide of Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and three others for alleged involvement in money laundering to fund terror. Their trial would begin ... Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:57:27 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/_Kashmir_mediapersons_call_off_house_boycott_125256 Jammu: Mediapersons here Wednesday called off their boycott of the proceedings in the Jammu and Kashmir legislature over Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone's controversial remarks made earlier this week.  The newspersons, upset with the speaker&... Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:10:27 GMT http://samachaar.in/Features/A_sheep_farm_vs_Kashmirs_dwindling_Hanguls__125173 Dachigam National Park (Jammu and Kashmir),  It is Kashmir's pride, but its numbers have been dwindling rapidly over the years and stands at just over 200. Besides fighting off poachers and other threats, the highly endangered Hangul deer has t... Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:45:31 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/___Twenty_injured_in_Kashmir_road_accident_125136 Srinagar: Twenty people were injured in a road accident Monday in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said.   The accident took place while the bus was travelling from Kupwara, 86 km away from Srinagar, towards Rednag Lalpora village... Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:47:21 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/____Avalanches_kill_12_army_personnel_in_Kashmir__124965 Srinagar: The death toll in twin avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir went up to 12 by Thursday afternoon, with all the casualties being army personnel, the army said. Seven soldiers are still missing.  At least nine army personnel were killed... Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:27:20 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/__Omar_condoles_death_of_soldiers_124946 Jammu: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday condoled the death of 11 soldiers killed in two avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir.  In a tweet Thursday, he first said: "Heartfelt condolences to the families of those soldiers who lost thei... Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:07:39 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/_Eleven_army_personnel_killed_in_Kashmir_avalanches__124929 Srinagar: Eleven army personnel were killed and eight are missing in two overnight avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir, an army official said Thursday.  While eight were killed in Bandipora district, another three were buried under the avalan... Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:40:15 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Nine_army_troopers_killed_in_Kashmir_avalanche_124922 Srinagar: Nine army troopers were killed in two avalanche tragedies in north Kashmir's Bandipora and Ganderbal districts."A massive avalanche struck the brigade headquarters of the army in Dawar village of Gurez subdivision of Bandipora dis... Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:26:53 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Landslides_block_SrinagarJammu_highway_again_124879 Srinagar: Landslides and shooting stones Wednesday blocked the Srinagar-Jammu highway even as the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) started road clearance operations early morning, an official said.According to an official of the BRO, there were land... Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:05:35 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Blast_case_accused_Kashmiri_boy_released_for_exam_124711 Jammu: A Jammu and Kashmir schoolboy accused of sending an email claiming responsibility for the Sep 7, 2011 blast outside the Delhi High Court was released by a juvenile justice board to appear in his annual Class 11 exam, sources said Thursday... Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:17:18 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/SrinagarJammu_highway_closed_avalanche_warning_124560 Srinagar: Fresh snowfall and slippery road conditions blocked the Srinagar-Jammu highway for the second consecutive day Tuesday.  Brigadier T.P.S. Rawat, chief engineer of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), said there had been fresh sno... Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:00:59 GMT http://samachaar.in/Weather/Fresh_snowfall_likely_in_Kashmir_124477 Srinagar: Rain and snow has been forecast again across the Kashmir Valley Sunday and over the next two days, an official said.The fresh snow and rain is due to the western disturbance, he said."We are expecting snowfall in the Valley from ... Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:23:18 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/_Kashmir_minister_says_Sonia_rejected_resignation_letter__124455 Jammu/Srinagar: Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, who sent his resignation from the Jammu and Kashmir ministry directly to Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, claimed Saturday that the UPA chairperson had rejected his resignation and also declared Chief Min... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:51:54 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Shutdown_on_JKLF_founders_death_anniversary_124410 Srinagar: Life across Srinagar and other parts of the Valley was affected Saturday by a shutdown called by separatists to mark the death anniversary of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) founder Maqbool Bhat.  Markets and other busines... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:28:30 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Kashmir_education_minister_resigns_124382 Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed Friday quit after police indicted him for the use of unfair means by his son in the Class 10 Board examination in 2009.Peerzada Sayed, a pillar of the Congress in Kashmir, how... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:10:38 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/First_joint_trade_chamber_for_divided_Kashmir_chooses_chief_124364 Srinagar: As part of the cross Line of Control (LoC) initiatives between two parts of Kashmir, a Srinagar-based businessman was Thursday elected to head a business interests body representing both sides.Mubeen Shah takes over as the president o... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:26:02 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Cold_wave_intensifies_in_Kashmir_Ladakh_124142 Srinagar: Cold wave conditions in the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh intensified Saturday even as the weather office predicted another spell of snowfall in the region next week."The cold wave conditions have intensified because of clear night skies ... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:01:13 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Srinagar_freezes_for_6th_day_record_broken_124130 Srinagar: A severe cold wave continued in the Kashmir Valley Friday with Srinagar breaking a 16-year record. The city's day temperature remained below the freezing point for the sixth straight day.Sonam Lotus, director of the Met office, told I... Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:12:12 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Dal_Lake_freezes_in_subzero_Kashmir_124092 Srinagar: The Dal Lake was frozen at many palaces and some shikaras (boats) were stuck in the frost Thursday as the maximum temperature in the Kashmir Valley has been below freezing point for last the four days.The water taps and various water b... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:37:13 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/___Smoked_fish_dried_vegetables_charm_Kashmiris_in_winter_124063 Srinagar: The temporary blockade on the Srinagar-Jammu highway due to snowfall has come as a blessing for traders selling smoked fish and dried vegetables - a centuries-old tradition that Kashmiris are reliving in Srinagar these days.  &n... Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:22:23 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/SrinagarJammu_highway_opened_to_oneway_traffic_124018 Srinagar: The Srinagar-Jammu highway, struck by a massive avalanche, was Monday opened to one-way traffic, allowing supplies to reach the snowed-in Kashmir Valley from the state's winter capital Jammu.Border Roads Organisation's chief enginee... Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:42:29 GMT http://samachaar.in/Jammu_and_Kashmir/Over_2000_Kashmirbound_passengers_stranded_in_Jammu_124002 Jammu: More than 2,000 Kashmir Valley-bound passengers were stranded in Jammu Sunday because of the closure of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway since the past two days after heavy snowfall and rain lashed the state.Landslides and slippery p... Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:30:18 GMT http://samachaar.in/Business_and_Economy/Worlds_largest_solar_telescope_to_be_set_up_in_Ladakh_123978 Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government has assured all help and co-operation to the union Department of Science and Technology in its endeavour to set up a solar telescope, said to be the world's largest, at Merak on Pangong Tso lake in the col... Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:42:10 GMT