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  1. Triple Talaq Declared Illegal in India
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    Triple Talaq Declared Illegal in India

    In a landmark 3-2 verdict, the Supreme Court of India has set aside the centuries-old practice of triple talaq in which Muslim men divorce their wives by uttering talaq three times in quick succession

  1. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hu Chunying

    ‘If We Enter India, It Will Be Chaos’

    This is for the first time Chinese have officially commented on the rising tension between the two Asian giants. Chinese reaction was coming only through state controlled media outlets so far

  2. HC Bans Constructions in Sonamarg Till Further Orders

    HC Bans Constructions in Sonamarg Till Further Orders

    To save Sonamarg from becoming a concrete jungle, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday banned till further orders all constructions at the tourist resort in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district

  1. NABL accreditation of food-labs:HC Gives Finance-Deptt 1 Week to Clear Proposal

    HC Gives Govt 2 Weeks to Revive School Fee Panel

    “Education is treated as a noble occupation on no profit-no-loss basis. Thus, those who establish and are managing the Educational Institutions are...

  2. Picture for representational purposes only

    Girls Higher Secondary School Functions from Tin Shed

    The building of Government Girls Higher Secondary School at Narbal collapsed during 2014 floods and since then girl students are being imparted...

  3. Machhil Gunfight: Soldier, Militant Killed, 5 Troopers Injured

    1 Militant Killed During Handwara Gunfight

    Government forces launched a cordon and search operation at Hongnikote in Haphruda forest area of Handwara, 85 km’s from Srinagar, following...

  4. Shabir Ahmad Shah

    Delhi Court Denies Bail to Shabir Shah

    Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma denied the relief to Shah, who is currently in judicial custody, after the Enforcement Directorate (ED)...

  5. Bus Overturns in Handwara, 18 Injured - File Pic

    Bus Overturns in Handwara, 18 Injured

    At least 18 people were injured, three of them critically, on Tuesday after a passenger bus overturned in North Kashmir, police said.The accident...

Local

  1. Pulwama Hospital Forces Patients to Buy Anti-Rabies Vaccines From Open Market

  1. Pulwama Hospital Forces Patients to Buy Anti-Rabies Vaccines From Open Market

  2. Trial run of Supply Chain management programme from Sept 1

  3. Counselling cells must in schools, colleges: Bukhari

  4. How scrapping of Article 35A will benefit Dogras: NC to BJP

  5. Air clinic concept could be applied to JK: Union Min

City

  1. Umar Qayoom

  1. 7 Years On, No FIR Filed Against Soura Boys Death

  2. Theft of Aurangzeb-era Quran:'Investigations on, no results have emerged as yet'

  3. Selective Ban on Pvt Practice of Doctors Sans Logic: DAK

  4. CUK introduces mentoring in curriculum

  5. AAI, Srinagar gives contract to Orango Solutions   

Regional

  1. Heavy monsoon rains kill 24 in Pakistan

  1. Heavy monsoon rains kill 24 in Pakistan

  2. ‘If We Enter India, It Will Be Chaos’

  3. Trump seeks greater role for India in Afghanistan's stability

  4. Flood situation worsens in Bihar; death toll rises to 253

  5. 'Trump to 'cut all military-aid to Pakistan'

International

  1. This photo shows solar flare as the sun emerges from a total eclipse by the moon Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, near Redmond, Oregon. (Photo | AP)

  1. Historic total solar eclipse turns day into night across the United States

  2. Trump rules out hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan

  3. UN chief urges protection for civilians trapped in conflict

  4. Knife-wielding man stabs 8 in Russia;shot by police

  5. I hope Trump is assassinated:US lawmaker's jibe might call for ouster

In Depth

  • Editorial

    Triple Talaq Judgement

    While the judgment on Triple Talaq certainly has a constructive dimension, it doesn’t detract from the force of the contention as to why reform...

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  • Features

    Joys of the occasional detour

    As a journalist, one has travelled to remote places across India that have intractable pot-holed roads or have no roads at all to connect them to the...

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  • Opinions

    ‘K’ is for Kashmir

    Kashmir is the source of the rivers that feed the Indus Valley. Water is an existential issue. Control over this life source cannot be legally...

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  • Editorial

    US’ new Af-Pak strategy

    By ignoring India, Pakistan relations and in turn Kashmir will once again prove detrimental to not only the prospect of peace in  Afghanistan but...

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Business

  1. People walk in front of a bank that was closed due to the nationwide bank strike, in Kolkata on Tuesday. (PTI Photo)

  1. Bank services hit across country as staff go on strike

  2. PUC examines CAGs audit paras pertaining to JK Bank

  3. KVIC revives training site at Pampore

  4. Next Gen Verna launched at KC Hyundai, Srinagar

Sports

  1. Varmul XI, Youth Club Baderwah pocket respective district tourneys  

  1. Varmul XI, Youth Club Baderwah pocket respective district tourneys  

  2. Bandipora to lighten up sport with maiden floodlit fixture in J&K

  3. CM felicitates young Everest conquerors from Leh

  4. Aqib Khan headlines in Master XI's title triumph

Tech & Health

  1. DAK urges use of HPV vaccine to prevent cancers

  1. DAK urges use of HPV vaccine to prevent cancers

  2. Energy drinks may put young adults at substance abuse risk, says study

  3. ‘Designer Babies’: Kashmir-Born Doctor Plays Leading Role

  4. At Budgam hospital, patients treated as animals

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Editorial

  1. Editorial

  1. Triple Talaq Judgement

  2. US’ new Af-Pak strategy

  3. Article 35A: Growing Chorus for Special Assembly Session

Observer Analysis

  1. A soldier standing guard at Srinagar's Lal Chowk during a strike on India's 68th Republic Day. File photo

  1. 70 Years Later Are We Still Waiting For Independence Day?

  2. Kashmir: The communalisation of a political dispute

  3. Burhan’s ‘Successor’s’ Killing Threatens to Again Push Valley Off the Cliff

Feature

  1. Joys of the occasional detour

  1. Joys of the occasional detour

  2. Is our friendship doomed?

  3. Waris-Shah has been hanged 26-times but refuses to die in Ahmad-Salim’s story

Opinion

  1. 2016 Uprising was for Kashmir Resolution: Ali

  1. ‘K’ is for Kashmir

  2. For the sake of the nation-The difference between patriotism and jingoism

  3. The ‘Missing’ Roadmap

Melange

No Holds Barred

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    No Holds Barred

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Interview

  1. In Conversation With Barkha Dutt

  1. ‘Regarding Kashmir you can only be either an Arnob or an Arundhati’

  2.  ‘TV debates on Kashmir are a travesty’

  3.  ‘We have created an unlikable Muslim out of a Kashmiri’

Review

  1. Freny Manecksha Behold, I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir’s Women and Children Rupa Publications, 2017

  1. Chronicling the Growing Voices of Kashmir’s Women

  2. Why This Small Town Author Decided to Write on Kashmir

  3. Arundhati Roy: Why Happiness Is A Radical Act

Heads and Tails

  1. Bacteria are the first forms of life on this planet about 4 billion years ago. You are their descendants.

  1. Who's More Dominating - Humans or Bacteria?

  2. On Superstitions and Animal Cruelty

  3. Pollination Crisis: Why Are Our Bees Disappearing?

Letters to Editor

  1. Fight stigma about mental illness

  1. Mental-health issues need serious attention

  2. Fight for Article 35A but also demand PaK retrrieval

  3. Article 35A: Why only Kashmir Valley leaders are agitating

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    WATCH: Indian, Pakistani peace anthem goes viral

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