India Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated one of the most ambitious and strategic railway projects the nation has ...

Rowing a boat she owns on Dal Lake, a 69-year-old Dutch woman who has been living in Kashmir for over five years has taken it ...

A detailed report about the making of Kashmir Shikara, the water taxis in Srinagar. It discuses the evolution and the fall of the craft ...

A growing number of tourists have raised serious concerns over the lack of safety measures being followed by Shikara owners ...

SRINAGAR: Weeks after the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that claimed 26 lives, the Jammu and Kashmir government, led by ...

Nestling at the point where the borders of India and Pakistan meet in the Himalayas, Jammu and Kashmir is the only Muslim-majority state or territory in Hindu-majority India (excepting the tiny ...

On a warm May morning, Farooq Ahmad waited by the Dal Lake waters with his wooden shikara boat moored close ... the season was looking historic. Kashmir had broken tourism records in 2024 ...

The body of a youth who went missing after a boat capsized ... The Shikara had overturned amid gusty winds and adverse weather conditions that hit pockets of Jammu and Kashmir.

Delhi and Islamabad have taken a raft of measures against each other since the Kashmir attack ... Kashmiri men row a traditional shikara boat on the waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar.

A traditional Shikara boat is seen in the waters of Dal Lake as the Hazratbal shrine is seen in the background in Srinagar ...

Shikara owners fish near the parked boats on the banks of the Dal Lake, in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack, in Srinagar PTI The army chief, General Upendra Dwivedi, visited Kashmir on ...

Ours was the only shikara gliding across the ... Tourism had once been Kashmir’s lifeline. After violence bled it dry, even a single boat ride became a cause for celebration.