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 ...

An eerie calm is around. Silent and secluded, the streets in and around tourist destinations in Kashmir are deserted—empty gardens, vacated properties and forlorn pathways. Fear hangs in the mist, and ...

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 ...

My last visit to Jammu and Kashmir was in 2006 ... feeling to stroll alone on the magnificent Dal Lake or take a shikara (small boat) ride. As I landed in Srinagar this time around, almost ...

Kashmir: From Floating ... night we decided not to cancel the shikara booked. It was a lovely sunrise... and yes , there were only a couple of tourist boats out... The flower boats are my ...

Manzoor Kundroo of the Kashmir Houseboat Owners Association said that 750 houseboats and over 200,000 people are affected. Similarly, shikara operators like Mohammad Imran Mir are uncertain about ...