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Muzaffar Raina SRINAGAR: Nine of 21 rooms in Lateef Ahmad's hotel in Srinagar's city centre had been filled with tourists last Friday, a decent count for this wintry time of year. But by morning the next day, they had all checked out and were on their way out of the Valley. The reason: news of Afzal Guru's hanging in Tihar jail had begun to spread. "We don't get many tourists during winter. Most of those who were there chose to go...
Posted 94 days ago.
Khursheed Wani SRINAGAR: As curtains are drawing on year 2012, the arrival of tourists to Kashmir continued on the penultimate day even as spine-chilling cold engulfed the entire region. The authorities say Kashmir has redeemed itself as 365-day tourist destination as the inflow of tourists remained a constant feature during all four seasons of the year, which has been the "least violent" in more than two decades of conflict. On Sunday, flights packed with tourists arrived on Srinagar...
Posted 139 days ago.
Muzaffar Raina SRINAGAR, Nov 30: Early heavy snowfall in country's skiing paradise of Gulmarg has given tourists and winter sports enthusiasts a reason to smile. Gulmarg's bowl today received 1.5 feet of snow, triggering jubilations among hundreds of tourists who were present at Kashmir's famed ski resort to witness snow. The surrounding areas of Gulmarg including Khilanmarg and Kongdori received 2.5 feet of snow, making it possible to start early skiing this year. "The snowfall is more...
Posted 170 days ago.
Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, Nov 29: One of the Asia’s largest and highest cable cars, Gulmarg Gandola, located in deep Himalayas near Line of Control (LoC), has attracted tens of thousands of tourists and die-hard skiers so far to Jammu and Kashmir. And as it crossed 14 years of its life this year, the Gandola project has earned revenue of over 1000 million rupees for the state. A major source of revenue generation for Jammu and Kashmir Cable Car Corporation, the Gulmarg Gandola has achieved...
Posted 171 days ago.
SRINAGAR, July 28: Three people died Saturday and five others were wounded after an explosion took place in a tourist bus in Anantnag district of South Kashmir. A police statement said the deaths were caused after a gas cylinder exploded in vehicle packed with tourists near Zurpora area on the Srinagar-Jammu National highway. Neesha Jeetwah wife of Anil Jeetwah, Nirmala Rathore wife of Jivraj and Indu Bhae died in the incident, police said. "Bharti wife of Ashwini Kumar, Neeta Jeetwah wife of Bharat Jeetwah,...
Posted 295 days ago.
JAMMU, July 8: A day after a landslide struck an area at Durbuk, about 200 km from here, the Indian Army launched a massive search and rescue operation on Sunday. Over 400 tourists and locals trapped at the Changla pass in Kashmir's Leh district after a massive landslide have been rescued by the security forces, an official here said. Nearly 150 vehicles with tourists and locals were rescued by an Indian Army team late Saturday and were offered food and shelter, an army spokesman said. The Changla pass is at an...
Posted 315 days ago.
Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, July 6: Battling for survival for the past three decades, an endangered species of red deer –Hangul – found only in Kashmir, this summer has been scared away from breeding by an unexpected rush of tourists. The increasing number of tourists pouring into the trouble torn Kashmir for the past two years has brought good fortune for many locals, but at the same time it has worried the wild life experts of the valley. The wild life department was forced to...
Posted 317 days ago.
SRINAGAR, July 4:A Kashmiri religious group Jamaat-e-Islami has asked tourists visiting the valley to follow a "proper dress code" and told the tourism department to enforce it. "Some tourists, mostly foreigners, are seen wandering in short mini-skirts and other objectionable dresses here openly, which is quite against the local ethos and culture and is not acceptable to the civil society at all," Jamaat-e-Islami said in a statement Tuesday evening. The group said it was the duty of the tourism department to tell...
Posted 319 days ago.
PAHALGAM, June 15: Horseback riding for the kids. Barefoot walks for mom and dad in green mountain meadows. Alpine streams perfect for swimming and water fights between overheated children. The new destination for Indian families trying to escape blistering summer heat? Kashmir, the bloodied but stunningly beautiful swath of Himalayan territory that has been the scene of a brutal 23-year insurgency. By June 1, nearly half a million Indian tourists and thousands of foreign tourists had visited the Kashmir Valley this...
Posted 338 days ago.
Majid Jahangir KAMANPOST, June 6:At a time when tourists are flocking to Kashmir like never before, this last post near the Line of Control (LoC) in the Uri sector, once a battleground, is developing into a popular tourist destination. Almost every day, a large number of locals as well as domestic tourists visit the Kaman Post in Baramulla district to get a first hand account of the historical place. They click pictures at Aman Sethu (Peace Bridge) which connects Srinagar with Muzaffarabad in...
Posted 347 days ago.
