With the Supreme Court asking the Centre for a timeframe to restore J&K’s statehood, we revisit how the Modi government radically reset the political status quo in Kashmir in 2019
In the 40 years of its existence, the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), a deemed university, has emerged as a key research and healthcare facility for the well-being of people within and outside Kashmir.
The dismantling of the region's democratic structures since Governor's Rule in 2018 has resulted in the disempowerment of the politically inclined and a series of defections from prominent parties.
Troops and officers of 3 Kumaon (Rifles) and 70 Brigade Commander, RK Shivrain with war-like stores of killers of Wandhama Pandits. Pic: HQs, 70 Infantry Brigade
CHANDIGARH: As you read the newspaper this morning, 23 years back to the time a bloody battle was on in the high snows of the Kashmir valley. The blood of seven terrorists, including a Pakistan Army regular, was seeping into the ivory snows of Safapora, outside their cave hideouts blasted by infantry’s 84-millimetre Carl Gustav rocket launchers. The crack team of 3 Kumaon and 9 Dogra had released Russian-made special incendiary munitions deep into the recesses of snow and rock, and any terrorist who fled the ‘crematory fire’ was nailed by the troops who slithered and slid down the slopes in hot pursuit. The souls of 23 Kashmiri Pandits slaughtered by this Harkat-ul-Ansar gang 19 days ago on January 25, 1998, had found partial peace.