Kupwara

A young man from Maharashtra has given a home to and is educating the daughters of militants killed in encounters in Kashmir. The girls had no other place to go to in the deeply patriarchal society of the Valley.

Ruveda Salam is the first woman from Kashmir to crack the UPSC exams - twice!

Sepoy Ramesh Chand Yadav, who died during a gun battle to keep out militants from infiltrating into Kupwara, Kashmir, was honoured during a wreath laying ceremony.