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unusual facts about Srinagar–Muzaffarabad Bus


Chakothi

Chakothi is the check post to Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service for immigration and custom.


1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed

Senior IB and police officials, including Ved Marwah, Director General of the National Security Guards, reached Srinagar before dawn the next day.

Aharbal

Aharbal is easily accessible from Srinagar, only 8 km from the Mughal Road that connects Srinagar and Poonch.

Auden's Col

Returning from Ghuttu : Take public transportation or private jeeps to Guptakashi on Kedarnath National Highway 109, which has quite regular traffic going to Rudraprayag, and further down to Srinagar (Uttarakhand), Rishikesh, and Hridwar.

Bijbehara Massacre

Amnesty International reported that at least 51 people died and 200 were wounded on that day, which included incidents in Srinagar and Bijbehara.

Buddhism in Kashmir

Kalhana's Rajatarangini mentions that a monumental metallic image of Buddha once stood in Srinagar, which was eventually destroyed by Sikandar Butshikan.

Dal Lake

Hari Parbat, also known as the Mughal fort, is a hill fort on Sharika hill that provides panoramic views of the Srinagar city and the Dal Lake.

Farooq Ahmed Ashai

Dr. Ashai was Chief Orthopedic Surgeon at the Bone and Joint Hospital in Srinagar and a faculty member & HOD at Medical College Srinagar(Department of Orthopaedics).

Fred Henry Andrews

He became the principal of a technical college in Srinagar which was established in 1914 and named after the Maharaja's brother — the Raja Sir Amar Singh.

Frieda Harris

Marguerite Frieda Harris (née Bloxam, 1877, London, England — 11 May 1962, Srinagar, India) was an artist, and, after she met him when aged 60, an associate of the occultist Aleister Crowley.

Gawakadal massacre

On January 19, 1990, the night Jagmohan was appointed governor, Indian security forces conducted extensive house-to-house searches in Srinagar, in an effort to find illegal weapons and root out any hidden militants.

That evening, a large group of protesters shouting pro-independence slogans, reached Srinagar's wooden Gawakadal Bridge over the Jhelum River.

Government of Jammu and Kashmir

The assembly is housed in the "Old Secretariat" in Srinagar, the former Sher Garhi Palace.

Haj Committee of India

Further embarkment points were added which presently includes Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkatta, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Srinagar, Nagpur, Patna, Jaipur, Guwahati and Aurangabad.

Harish Kapadia

His son Lt. Nawang Kapadia, who was commissioned on September 2, 2000 in the Fourth Battalion the Third Gorkha Rifles, died while fighting Pakistan based terrorists in the jungles of Rajwar in Kupwara district of Srinagar on 11 November 2000.

Julian Rachlin

In 2013, he played at Mughal-era Shalimar Gardens in Srinagar, Kashmir in a concert conducted by Zubin Mehta called Ehsaas-e-Kashmir, playing the third movement of Tchaikovsky's violin concerto.

Khwaja Nazir Ahmad

Prior to partition in 1948 he toured Kashmir with Aziz Kashmiri, editor of the Ahmadiyya weekly paper in Srinagar, looking for evidence supporting the claim of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad made in 1899, that the Roza Bal shrine of the holy man Yuz Asaf in Srinagar is the grave of Jesus of Nazareth.

Kidnap and Ransom

There is a then a flashback to his travels two weeks earlier to Srinagar in Kashmir in India to negotiate the hostage release of a British family.

Mahsud

They quickly reached Baramulla town, the gateway to the Kashmir valley, but indulged in loot, arson, and murder at Baramulla for several days instead of pressing on to the capital, Srinagar, to seize Kashmir completely.

Majhoi

Majhoi is a village situated beside Srinagar Road 17 kilometers away from the capital of State of Azad Jammu Kashmir.

Mirza Jawan Bakht

The new Mughal Army carried the standard of Mirza Jawan Bakht, and soon controlled a vast territory that stretched from the Satluj Valley in the west to the territories around Allahabad in the east, from Srinagar in the north to Gwalior in the south, however times were troubled and the Mughal Empire was surrounded by enemies on every side.

Operation Safed Sagar

Flying from the Indian airfields of Srinagar, Avantipur and Adampur, ground attack aircraft MiG-21s, MiG-23s, MiG-27s, Jaguars and the Mirage 2000 struck insurgent positions.Of note, although the MiG-21 is built mainly for air interception with a secondary role of ground attack, it is capable of operating in restricted spaces which was of importance in the Kargil terrain.

Pandit Jia Lal Saraf

Pandit Jia Lal Dhar Saraf was a prominent personality of Reshipeer mohalla in Srinagar, Kashmir.

He was the owner of hotel 'Naya Kashmir Hotel' which is right across the Clock Tower (ghantaghar) in Lal Chowk, Srinagar.

Patnitop

Patnitop or Patni Top is a hilltop tourist location in Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir state of India on National Highway 1A 112 km from Jammu on the way from Udhampur to Srinagar.

Pauri Garhwal district

Hemvati Nandan Bahugana Garhwal University (A central university of India) is in Srinagar.

Rajatarangini

A television series based on Rajatirangini named "Meeras" was begun in 1986 in Doordarshan Srinagar.

Santosh Trophy 2007–08

The 62nd Santosh Trophy 2008 was held from 25 May to 15 June 2008 in Srinagar & Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir.

Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir

With its main campus in Shalimar, Srinagar, the University has multiple campuses, colleges, research and extension centers across the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh regions of the state.

Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta

Vasugupta is said to have lived near Mahadeva Mountain in the valley of the Harvan stream behind the what are now the Shalimar Gardens near Srinagar.

Srinagar, Uttarakhand

Civil constructions have been carried out by L&T company whereas E&M works of Power House and switchyard are being done by BHEL a Maharatna PSU of Government of India.

Tomb of Jesus

Roza Bal in Srinagar, India, a shrine venerated by locals and Ahmadiyya Muslims as the grave of a sage named Yuz Asaf, or "son of Joseph"

Tourism in Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar — the summer capital of the state, set around famous Dal Lake, with its floating houseboats

Srinagar - Capital of Jammu and Kashmir, a popular hill station

Tral

Five hundred years ago the real name of Tral was (تریہ لال) Three Pearls because the whole area was purchased by Hazrat Ameer Kabeer (RA) (who came from Baghdad to spread Islam in Kashmir) in three pearls.One of the eminent personalities of Srinagar, Dr.Nisar Ahmad Bhat (Trali) has framed a book on the history of Tral (Aien-ai - Tral), this book covers all the monuments,leaders,scholars and many more aspects of Tral history.

University Convocation Complex, University of Kashmir

The Complex was constructed by University Construction Division with assistance from Kadiri Consultants, Mumbai and Construction Engineers, Srinagar.


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