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Saturday, September 13, 2025
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Topic: Srinagar

Mehbooba’s brother Tassaduq Mufti shifts focus to films, culture and environment

Cinematographer by profession, Tassaduq served as tourism minister in Mehbooba-led J&K govt, and now wants to revive old city of Srinagar.

The rarely told story of vital Point 5353 India failed to retake from Pakistan in Kargil

Some 19 yrs after the war, ThePrint pieces together events that prevented the Indian Army from capturing a vital height.

Teenage girl among three killed in firing by security forces in Kashmir

Incident comes weeks after fall of government and days after home minister’s visit to Kashmir.

Muscular security policy will not work in J-K: Mehbooba Mufti says after her resignation

Mehbooba Mufti, who submitted her resignation this evening, said her party will continue to strive for dialogue in the state Srinagar: PDP chief and Jammu and...

Hindu family’s collection of Islamic manuscripts draws art lovers in Kashmir

Over a hundred rare Quranic manuscripts, including the medieval Nishka whatever, calligraphic work and art objects are on display.

Time to move on from unity in diversity and just celebrate diversity

The 50-word Edit — ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

BSF former top cop, 4 others held guilty in 2006 Kashmir sex scandal

The case involved the sexual exploitation of two minors in Srinagar by a group of politicians, bureaucrats and police officials.

J&K shifts capital to Srinagar for summer in keeping with 150-year-old tradition

The ‘Darbar move’, as the practice is called, was started in 1872 by Maharaja Gulab Singh, the founder of the Dogra dynasty, in order to escape Jammu’s extreme summer and Srinagar’s bitter winter.

Teachers in Kashmir colleges worried about students a day after professor Bhat’s killing

Some said alienation among locals had reached a tipping point, while others worried that Dr Mohammad Rafi Bhat, a beloved professor to his students, might emerge as a role model.

Shopian school bus attack not the first in Kashmir, kids in Valley targeted since 2016

25 schools were torched in the Valley soon after the encounter of Burhan Wani in 2016. On 1 April this year, a school bus was also attacked by protesters.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.