Kashmir Valley

The Braveheart Major who saved Srinagar for India on this fateful day in 1947

Sant Kumar Sharma - November 3, 2020

Once Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession with India on October 26, providing troops for the defence of Jammu and Kashmir became...

How come stone-pelters are queueing up in thousands for a BSF job, Ms Mufti?

Ashish Shukla - October 19, 2020

Kashmiri youths were stone-pelters and now they are lining up to protect India’s borders and we don’t know whom to believe anymore. The Gupkar club...

Why Srinagar dreads this day; and why it could recur again, and again

Sant Kumar Sharma - September 19, 2020

Some Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terrorists fired in air, vandalised machinery at the site and beat up some labourers at Adipora on August 27, 2012....

Uri attack anniversary today: When India decided enough is enough

Sant Kumar Sharma - September 18, 2020

In our neighbourhood, we were close to open hostilities on the borders with Pakistan in February 2019 after the Balakot air strikes. These attacks...

Bengaluru burns and a Muslim names his son ‘Krishna’ on Janmashtami: What’s the connection?

Ashish Shukla - August 13, 2020

The news from Bengaluru is disturbing. A facebook post on the Prophet Muhammad enraged a mob of Muslims; they went on a rampage; hundreds...

Shah Faesal quits politics, wishes to rejoin administration

Newsbred Staff - August 10, 2020

Shah Faesal, who rose to prominence first as an IAS select from the Kashmir Valley and later when he took up political cudgels leaving...

As New Kashmir’s Ist anniversary nears, our soldiers would be the target

Sant Kumar Sharma - July 4, 2020

Some days ago, civilian Bashir Ahmed died when terrorists fired at a CRPF patrolling party at Sopore from a mosque. A CRPF head constable...

Domicile Issue in J and K: A historical perspective

Sant Kumar Sharma - July 1, 2020

(In the wake of Navin Choudhary, a J and K cadre IAS officer being granted domicile certificate in Jammu and Kashmir, paving the way...

Modi is India’s greatest prime minister by a distance’”here’s why

Ashish Shukla - May 18, 2020

The very headline demands a comparison. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru had his own view of India, not the one he shared with his mentor Mahatma...

‘Tukde-tukde gang’ and its plan that you don’t know about

Ashish Shukla - January 7, 2020

How “tukde-tukde gang” would wish students of this country forget studies or a beckoning career and instead wield sticks and stones, make front page...

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