blue berry cultivation in kashmir

Blue berry cultivation in Kashmir

Growing a blueberry plant is like having a fresh blueberry stand in your own backyard. Our blueberry plants will produce abundant crops of juicy, delicious, antioxidant-rich berries that you can enjoy in a number of ways.

Northern Highbush Blueberries are vigorous and very cold-hardy, making them perfect for growers in cooler climates.

S.H. Blueberries are heat-tolerant, which means they excel in climates with higher Southern

N.H. Blueberries are heat-tolerant, which means they excel in climates with higher average temperatures.

If you have a small-space garden, plant half-high or “dwarf” Patio Blueberry Plants either in the ground or in containers.

Aloe-vera-plants also available
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Kashmiri Mongra Saffron

Health Benefits of Saffron. Saffron is a very costly spice, used to flavor and color food. The

spice is actually the dried stigma (tiny threadlike strands) of the Crocus Sativus Linneaus, a member of the iris family. ... It is thought that saffron is the most expensive spice in the world.
Pricing : 3100.00 (10 grams), 6200.00 (20 grams), 12400.00 40 grams) (As on date)

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Kiwi to grow in valley, 15 times costlier than apple

For the first time, Horticulture Department Kashmir is growing climbers of a fresh fruit, Kiwi, in the Valley; the fruit sells 15 times costlier than apple in the market.

Kiwi Guide

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Kiwi Garden J&K

After finding the local climatic conditions conducive for the growth of the fruit, the horticulture department has decided to sell five thousand Kiwi plants to the growers in the first phase of the cultivation. The department will start distribution of the plants from coming February. 

 “Climate of valley is very conducive for the growth of Kiwi and we have already tested the plant in the local environs. The plants have emerged nicely in the soil, bearing fruit in bumper and leaving no problem in ripening,” said Director Horticulture Kashmir, M S Qasba. 

    

 Kiwi is originally native of China from where it has spread to New Zealand, which has climatic conditions that are almost in sync with the climatic conditions of the valley. In keeping with the temperate climate of the valley, the experts broached the idea of testing the fruit here, which convinced the experts to go ahead with the mission of producing Kiwi in Valley.

While Kiwi is a perennial plant with broad leaves on its branches, it has a rapid rate of transpiration and requires irrigation frequently for its growth and development. In the months of June and July, Kiwi will require irrigation from 4 to 5 times.

“Due to higher transpiration rate, the Orchards need to be irrigated many a time to avoid loss of growth of the fruit. We have already advised the growers not to grow the fruit in un-irrigated fields,” said the Director, adding that the fruit starts ripening in the month of August and is harvested in October.

After 4th year of its transplantation, Kiwi starts bearing fruit and a full grown plant yields upto 50 kgs. The potato size Kiwi is expected to outshine the valley’s popular fruit apple as it sells at a much higher rate than apple in the market.

“One Kilogram of Kiwi sells in the market from rupees 200 to 300 as compared to apple which sells at the rate of rupees 20 to 40. This in itself attests the fact, how profitable it is to grow the exotic variety of fresh fruit in the valley,” said Qasba .

As the fruit will engender a diversification of fresh fruit, the Horticulture Department is optimistic that its cultivation will be beneficial for the fruit industry.

tanacetum vulgare,tansy plant

Tansy is a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant of the aster family, native to temperate Europe and Asia. It has been introduced to other parts of the world, including North America, and in some areas has become invasive.

Tansy flower plant

Tansy seeds : 250 seeds (US$ 150), 500 seeds (US$ 250)
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Chestnut trees kashmir

Availability of planting material : Apple tree, Apricort tree ,Goji berry tree, Ginkgo biloba

Chestnut trees

 tree , Almond tree, Peach tree, Pear tree, Amlok tree, Howthorne tree ,Hazel tree, Pican,Chestnut,Hazelnut, Zaitoon tree , Walnut seed and medicinal and herbal plants.

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Database of Medicinal Plants in India

Tansy flower

Database on Medicinal Plants “Comprehensive Database on Some Important Medicinal Plants havingCentral Council for research in Ayurvedic Sciences successesfully and the data have been displayed in the form of an e-portal entitled “Database on MedicinalPlants” . Afore mentioned e-portal is uploaded on webpage http//:www.nmpb-mpdb.nic.in with the consultation of National Informatics Centre (NIC). Keeping in the mind for all type of searcher, the information in prepared e-portal regarding authors, title of the article, book / journal name, publisher, volume, page no., year etc. for all collected references is fed with user-friendly search option with necessary hyperlinks to guide further. Nearly 33,700 references are collected pertaining to the 16 selected medicinal plants. Out of these, approximately 22,000 reprints / abstracts could so far have been collected. Collected data includes the classical literature from Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy system of medicine as well as modern literature from various books and journals covering basic and applied science like Botany, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, etc. and medicine. The e-portal “Database on Medicinal Plants” will act as a common platform at which maximum possible published information on a particular medicinal plant can be accessed.
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Exotic products such as Kiwi, hazelnuts, asparagus make their way into India plates

NEW DELHI: When Gurgaon resident Avanti Agarwal (name changed) got married this year, dishes made of white asparagus that she had arranged to be served turned out to be a huge hit.

Kiwi is mostly grown in the mid hills of Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, J & K, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh,Karnataka,Uttarakhand  and Kerala.  Having been very newly introduced in the country estimates of area and production have not yet become available. 

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"We had a separate stall serving white asparagus because it is healthier and more nutritious than the green one. Everyone loved the salads and soups made from it," said Avanti who is a vice president with a multinational bank and a health freak. She is also a regular at gourmet stores in the National Capital. Avanti is not an exception and this is not something that's reserved for special occasions. The grocery lists of many households these days have exotic products such as hazelnuts, asparagus, basil and kiwi fruit— products that were barely visible in the country a few years ago and now increasingly appealing to the Indian palette.

Consider this: India imported $270,000 worth of shelled hazelnuts in the first four months of this financial year compared with $150,000 in the whole of 2014-15. Similarly, asparagus imports have already crossed $160,000 compared with $400,000 last year. Imports of herbs such as rosemary and basil, the foreign cousin of the desi tulsi plant, have more than doubled to $3.5 million in this period from the whole of 2014-15.

Purchases of exotic fruit, vegetables, oils and other ingredients are increasing, thanks to higher incomes, the opening up of gourmet food stores and the rising number of Indians travelling abroad and bringing new tastes back home. Add to this, cookery shows -- both Indian and foreign – that have exposed the upper middle-class to a range of ingredients and dishes so much that the level of experimentation has gone up dramatically.

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5th death anniversary of Prof. (Dr) S. Jalal

Jahan-I-Nau donates Medical Books to SKIMS Soura on the 5th death anniversary of Prof. (Dr) S.
Jalal.

Flood Helpline No's of Kerala

Kerala floods: Helpline numbers, emergency contact details, and how you can help with donations,

Flood Helpline

supplies, medicines

Kerala has been ravaged by unprecedented floods following torrential rains that also triggered landslides, claiming 97 lives since 8 August besides disrupting air, rail and road traffic in several places. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had on 12 August undertook an aerial survey of the floot-hit regions and announced an immediate central assistance of Rs 100 crore to the state for relief works.

The Kerala government has put out appeals for financial donations and essential items for thousands of displaced people, living in relief camps around the state.

Here's how you can help those affected by the Kerala floods:

Contribute through the Chief Minister's Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF)

The chief minister's office released a letter appealing for help to rebuild the lives of people affected by the floods in Kerala. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said, "We have an important task before us, the task of bringing life back to normalcy."
Direct link: https: donation.cmdrf.kerala.gov.in

Donations can be made through cheques or demand drafts (DD), or internet banking. Address for cheques: The Principal Secretary (Finance) Treasurer, Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund, Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram – 1;

To contribute online -

Account number: 67319948232
Bank: State Bank of India
Branch: City branch, Thiruvananthapuram
IFS Code: SBIN0070028
PAN: AAAGD0584M
Name of Donee: CMDRF
The chief minister's office has also released helpline numbers.

Kasargod: 9446601700
Kannur: 91-944-668-2300
Kozhikode: 91-944-653-8900
Wayanad: 91-807-840-9770
Malappuram: 91-938-346-3212
Malappuram: 91-938-346-4212
Thrissur: 91-944-707-4424
Thrissur: 91-487-236-3424
Palakkad: 91-830-180-3282
Ernakulam: 91-790-220-0400
Ernakulam: 91-790-220-0300
Alappuzha: 91-477-223-8630
Alappuzha: 91-949-500-3630
Alappuzha: 91-949-500-3640
Idukki: 91-906-156-6111
Idukki: 91-938-346-3036
Kottayam: 91-944-656-2236
Kottayam: 91-944-656-2236
Pathanamthitta: 91-807-880-8915
Kollam: 91-944-767-7800
Thiruvananthapuram: 91-949-771-1281

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JK Medicinal Plants Introduction centre

The Jammu and Kashmir Medicinal Plants Introduction Centre's  Herb Garden playsa central role in the education of our students. Botanical medicine students study and cultivate a variety of medicinal plants throughout their life cycle. Many of these plants are harvested at their seasonal peak for creating medicinal tinctures and salves. Nutrition classes use the cultivated culinary herbs and organic vegetables in the instition's whole-food kitchen lab. The garden is designed, cultivated and managed by students and volunteers under the guidance of the garden manager and assistant garden manager with a combined total over 21 years of experience.

Availability: Herbs, Crude Drugs, Herbal Seeds, Herbal Roots,Forest Tree seeds, Temperate fruit plants,Medicinal herbs,Flower seeds and much more.....

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CSIR - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine

Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) is a National Institute of the Council of Scientific &

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Industrial Research (CSIR) of India, with primary focus of research on drug discovery from natural products (medicinal plants and microbial species).

waving tricolour at Lal chowk

Epilobium parviflorum, commonly known as the hoary  willowherb or smallflower hairy willowherb, is a  herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the Onagraceae family.

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Police said that two people who are non-state residents made an abortive bid to raise tricolour but were whisked away.

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What happened in kashmir in 2008

Separatist leaders have paid  rich tributes to slain Hurriyat leader , farmer supreme commander Sheikh Abdul Aziz on his 10th death anniversary.  

shaheed-e-Azeemat Sheikh  Aziz 

Aljehad & Chairman of People's Leauge ,

Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani described him as a visionary leader. “shaheed-e-Azeemat" usually used to remain silent in the company of his fellow leaders, yet his body language would speak louder than his words. He always remained ready to sacrifice even his life for the sacred cause. This he proved on 11th of August 2008 by facing the bullets while leading a march towards Muzzarafabad. The best way to pay tributes to him and others is to remain steadfast on our resolve and take the ongoing movement to its logical end,” a spokesman of the conglomerate quoted Geelani as having said while telephonically addressing a conference organised by Hurriyat at its head office here.

Geelani urged all the units of Hurriyat Conference to kick start a door to door election boycott campaign, the spokesman said, adding that the conference was presided over by the Hurriyat general secretary, Ghulam Nabi Sumji. 

In a statement, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik while paying rich tributes to the late leader said, 

“Jinab Sheikh Sahib was a humble soul, a dedicated fighter who remained in the front row of the movement and sacrificed his life for the Kashmir cause.” 

What happened in Kashmir in 2008
Come to Pampore-Pampore Chalo 2008 
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Stone pelting in Kashmir - Wikipedia

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Muzaffarabad chalo - Tribune India

https://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080812/main5.htm

Tuesday, August 12, 2008, Chandigarh, India ... Srinagar, August 11. At least four persons, ... while all educational institutions would be closed till August 14.

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Salvia officinalis is a perennial, evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers.

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Heroin worth Rs. 250 crore seized in J&K

In a major success against drug trafficking and possible narco-terrorism, the police on Monday seized 51 kilograms of high-grade Afghan-origin heroin worth over Rs. 250 crore from a Punjab-bound truck here.PTI

'Biggest ever haul of heroin worth over Rs 250 crore seized in Jammu, two held'

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has found that at least five Indian companies engaged in cross-LoC India-Pakistan trade have links to the Hizbul Mujahideen, as per a report in Times of India.

As part of its probe into the alleged transfer of funds from across the border, used to fuel terror networks, the NIA had been investigating close to 300 companies that were engaged in cross-border trade since 2008. The agency found five companies with dubious transaction records, leading it to further probe them.

The report quoted sources that revealed that 'these companies were engaged in barter trade with Pakistan-based individuals/companies, that were under-invoicing the import of California almonds at trade facilitation centres (TFCs) located at Salamabad and Chakkan-da-Bagh in Jammu and Kashmir. The money acquired by under-invoicing the import, NIA believes, could have been used to fund "terror operations."

Representational image. Getty

Earlier this month, Some arms and ammunition were recovered from a truck engaged in cross-LoC trade in Uri sector of north Kashmir's Baramulla district. The weapons were hidden in a camouflaged cavity of the truck designed particularly for illegal smuggling.

After clothes, California almonds have emerged as the new product in cross-LoC trade in Jammu and Kashmir that are being used as a mode of terror funding.

The NIA has registered a case in this connection and had carried out searches on traders at trade facilitation centres at Salamabad in Kashmir region's North Kashmir's Baramulla district and Chakan-da-bagh in Poonch district of Jammu region.

According to the cross-LoC trade agreement between India and Pakistan, products grown in both sides of Jammu and Kashmir will be exchanged under the barter system. The products included the California almonds, that is grown in parts of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. During the searches, documents related to exchange of California almonds were seized and are being scrutinised, the NIA said.

The traders from PoK were sending and receiving California almonds and it is alleged that the money was used for funding of terror groups in the state.

"This is in gross violation of the State policy of prohibition on trade in 'third-party origin goods' through this mechanism and information indicated that these funds are being used for fomenting terrorism and separatism in the state of Jammu and Kashmir," the NIA had said.

With inputs from PTI

Salvia officinalis plant

Salvia officinalis is a perennial, evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers.

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OM Prakash Vidyarthi -Forest food of J&K

Shri OM Prakash Vidyarthi Commissioner Forest Ecology , Environment and Climate

Change applauds Herbal display and cuisine development while inaugurating exhibition of herbal ,medicinal products and interaction with herbal innovators in the Institute of Hotel Management Raj Bagh Srinagar ,more than 200 officers ,scholars,scientists,media persons ,advocates ,herbal growers ,women invitees and members of civil society participated in the first ever forest cuisine development session.

Kashmir Chinar maple tree

Kashmir Chinar maple tree

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blackberry plant seeds

Blackberry bushes provide large delicious blackberries with pain free picking. Easily grow tons of berries with this low maintenance bush!

Black berries

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Herbal plant extracts in India

1. Acai berry extracts 4:1 , 5 % Vit C
2. Apricot Extracts
3. Artichoke Extracts 2.5 % Cynarin
4. Aspargus racemosus Extracts 20 %
5. Astragalus Extracts 10:1
6. Avena sativa Extracts 10:1
7. Burdock Root Extracts
8. Chamomile Extracts
9. Cranberry Extracts 25 % PAC
10. Damiana leaf Extracts 10:1
11. Dandelion Extracts 10:1
12. Dong quani – Angelica sinensis Extracts 10;1
13. Elder berry Extracts 10:1
14. Ganoderma Extracts 20 % Polysacchride
15. Ginseng Extracts 20 % Ginsenoside
16. Gojiberry Extracts 20 % Polysacchride
17. Hawthorn berry Extracts 10;1
18. Horney goat Weed Extracts 5 % Icarin
19. Horse chest nut Extracts
20. Horsetail Extracts
21. Kiwi seed Extracts 4:1
22. Maca Root Extracts 15 % Sterol
23. Mucuna puranis Extracts 20 % L Dopa
24. Mulberry leaf Extracts 1 % DNJ
25. Nettle root extracts 10:1
26. Nigella sativa Extracts
27. Olive leaf Extracts 20 % Oleuperon
28. Queracetin Powder 95 %
29. Pygeum bark Extracts 10:1
30. Rhodiola rosea Extracts 3 %
31. Red Rasberry Extracts 10 % Rasberry Kitone
32. Rose hip Extracts 20 %
33. Rosmerry Extracts 20 %
34. Saw palmetto Extracts 25 % Fatty Acid
35. Seabuckthorn Powder SD
36. Siberian Ginseng Extracts 0.8 % Eleutheroside
37. St. Johns Wart Extracts 0.5 % Hypericine
38. Tongkat Ali Extracts 100:1
39. Vitex agnus Extracts
40. Valerian officinalis
41. Wild yam Extracts
42. White willow bark Extracts 10 %
43. Yohambe 10 % Yohambin HCl
44. Anacyclus pyrethrum Pyrethrins 0.5%
45. Juglans regia extract
46. Junipher dried extract
47. Hemidesmus indicus Saponin 7%
48. Aconitum heterophyllum Tannin 5%
49. Achillea Millefolium
50. Swertia chirata
51. Smilax china
52. Cedrus deodara
53. Glycyrrhiza glabra
54. Gmelina arborea Alkaloid 0.3%
55. Panax Ginseng Ginsengosides 20%
56. Sphaeranthus indicus Alkaloids 0.3%
57. Tinospora cordifolia Bitters 2.5%
58. Viola odorata Mucilage 20%
59. Ferula asafoetida Vol Oil 1%
60. Peganum harmala Mucilage 10%
61. Nardostachys jatamansi Jatamansic acid 2%
62. Nigella sativa Saponin 10%
63. Cichorium intybus
64. Picrorrhiza kurroa 65. Celastrus paniculatus dried extract
66. Urtica dioca Saponin 10%
67. Abelmoschus moschatus Resin 3%
68. Vitex negundo Tannin 5%
69. Pinus Pinaster OPC 95%
70. Inula racemosa Bitter 3%
71. Rheum emodi Antraquines 3%
72. Vinca rosea Alkaloids 1-2.5%
73. Dactylorhiza hatagirea Glucosids 5%
74. Tephrosia pupurea Rutin 4%
75. Asparagus racemosus Saponin 30%
76. Serenoa Repens Fatty Acids 45%
77. Valeriana Wallichii Velerenic Acid 0.8%
79. Colchhicum Luteum Baker Alkaloids 0.4%
80. Taxus baccata Vol Oil 10%
81. Ruta graveolens Rutin 5%
82. Prunella vulgaris Vol Oil 2%
83. Viburnum thapus Tannin 7%

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Doctor on duty declares son brought dead

"He wrapped the body in white cloth and broke down’

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When Faizan Ahmed Poswal, 15, sustained bullet injuries in a gunfight between militants and government forces at Thumna village of Pulwama on Friday, he was rushed to District Hospital Pulwama but was declared brought dead by none other than the father Dr Abdul Gani Poswal, a medical officer at the hospital.

Dr Poswal was on duty when he received the body.

The emotions ran high in the hospital when Dr Poswal saw the body of the son but could not save him. He tried hard but it was all over leaving him no option but to declare him dead. He wrapped the body in white cloth and broke down. The doctors, nurses, medical officers all were crying." Funeral prayers were held inside hospital premises which were attended by entire hospital staff and local residents. Dr Poswal lived with his family at residential quarters in the town.

Raspberry plant in Kashmir

Rubus ellipticus, commonly known as golden Himalayan raspberry or as yellow Himalayan

raspberry, is an Asian species of thorny fruiting shrub in the rose family. It is native to China, the Kashmir, Indochina, and the Philippines

Kashmir Wild fruits

Availability of plant/seeds
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shujaat bukhari rising kashmir

Murder of Shujaat Bukhari of Rising Kashmir, has shocked everyone. He is not the first journalist

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who has been killed by unidentified assassins in Kashmir. But, so far, none of them have been caught

The murder in broad daylight of senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari, editor-in-chief of the English daily Rising Kashmir, has shocked the entire media fraternity in the Valley—and has them wondering whether the killers will ever be brought to justice.Bukhari is not the first journalist who has fallen to the bullets of unidentified assassins in Kashmir. So far, none of the killers has been cuaght and punished.The first media person to be killed in Kashmir was Lassa Koul, director of the local Doordarshan Kendra. Koul was kidnapped and subsequently killed in early 1990.

The Special Operation Group of JK Police claimed to have eliminated the " acting chief" of the pro-Pakistan 'AL-Fatha Force' identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Lone @General Mossa' in an counter with the SOG. Even as none of the militant organisation said anything about the man or the incident, some of the some of the journalists here claimed that Mr. Lone was not a militant but "printer, publisher and editor of vernacular weekly " Wehdat-e-Milli". JK Police have recovered  from his person an identity card which described the deceased as "printer, publisher & amp; editor " of the Urdu weekly.

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Mushtaq Ahamd Lone

In April 1991, Muhammad Shaban Vakil, editor of the vernacular daily Al-Safa, was killed in his office in Srinagar city.

In September 1995, Mushtaq Ali, a photojournalist with the AFP wire service, was killed in a parcel bomb explosion in the office of Yusuf Jameel, the then BBC correspondent in Kashmir. A burqa-clad woman had delivered the parcel bomb at Jameel's office in Srinagar's Press Enclave.

On January 1, 1997, Altaf Ahmad Faktoo, an anchor of the local Doordarshan Kendra was killed.On March 16, 1997, freelance journalist, Saidan Shafi was killed in Srinagar.

In February 2003, Parvaz Muhammad Sultan, who ran a  news agency, was killed in his office, again in Srinagar's Press Enclave.

In March 1996, Sheikh Ghulam rasool Azad, editor of the Urdu-language daily Rehnuma-e-Kashmir and the English-language weekly Saffron Times, was found dead on April 10 floating in Kashmir's Jhelum River. He had written about an increase in killings and arson incidents his hometown, Pampore. Family members say a militia group backed by Indian state security forces had kidnapped him in March.

In 29  August 1994, Ghulam Muhammad Lone and his 4 year old son reportedly killed by ARMED FORCES, in Kangan, Jammu and Kashmir.

In 29 April,2004, Asiya Jeelani, a freelance journalist, was killed in a mine explosion in India-controlled Kashmir, while working with the Coalition of Civil society to prepare a report on its election monitoring activities.

In February 2003, Parvaz Muhammad Sultan, who ran a local news agency, was killed in his office, again in Srinagar's Press Enclave.