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Quiet talks in January, solution in 3 months

CHIDAMBARAM ’S MISSION KASHMIR

RASHEED SHAHID

Srinagar, Dec 29: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram is busy preparing ground - in Delhi and Srinagar - to formally set in motion the much-hyped process of quiet dialogue in Kashmir “to workout a solution of the problem.”According to highly placed sources privy to the JK-related developments in More

NHPC gets Baglihar booty

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 29: The State government has handed over maintenance and operation of Baglihar Hydel Power Project to the NHPC without inviting any bids for the same.One of the reasons cited by the Chief Engineer Generation to out-source the operation and maintenance of Baglihar project was “lack More

Employees to lock-out offices today

Indefinite Strike, Mass Protests In Next Phase

DANISH NABI

Srinagar, Dec 29: Around four lakh employees in Jammu and Kashmir are all set to lock horns with the government in demand of sixth pay commission which will be marked by a complete lockout of government offices on Wednesday even as the employees’ Joint Consultative Committee, spearheading the agitation More

‘GOVT TO ADDRESS ISSUES’

GK News Network

Jammu, Dec 29: The cabinet sub-committee on the 6th Pay Commission report met here this evening with the Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather, in chair, to discuss the “left-over” demands of the government employees.“The sub-committee observed that the government had already conceded the employees More

25% decline in militant violence: DGP

Press Trust of India

Srinagar, Dec 29: Jammu and Kashmir police today said the militancy-related incidents have come down by over 25 per cent in the current year and special emphasis is being laid on the latest technology and weaponry to meet the challenge.“During 2008, the militancy related violence came down by 35 More



  • Perspective

The monster of corruption

SOCIETY

It has eaten into the vitals of our society and we need to fight it tooth and nail, comments Sabir Hussain Isaar.A man is known by the company he keeps and a society is known by the customs it follows More


  • Op-Ed

Two stories, two treatments

CONTRAST

Just compare Ruchika molestation case with a double rape and murder of Asiya and Neelofar. See the same media, the same politicians dealing with the two cases differently. There they mean business. Here More



  • Reflections

‘Biased reporting by a paper like Greater Kashmir’

It’s sad and unfortunate that a leading Kashmiri paper like Greater Kashmir which stood the test of time and even made historic sacrifices to keep the voice of journalism always alive in J&K has started More


  • Editorial

Change Mindset

It is a mindset that needs to be changed. The law and order situation in the State by the government’s own estimation has undergone a sea change. With militancy related activities coming to a naught it More


  • News

JK hospitals ill-prepared to tackle Swine flu

Sanatnagar surveillance centre a sample collection point; SKIMS testing lab still ‘in pipeline’

DANISH NABI

Srinagar, Dec 29: Inadequate facilities and lack of coordination between healthcare workers is posing a grave threat of H1N1 influenza or swine flu pandemic to Kashmir. There has been already a state-wide More


  • City

Bemina’s Azad Memorial College nobody’s baby

Mufti named it after legendry poet; 6 yrs on, authorities groping in confusion

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, Dec 29: In 2003, the then Chief Minister, Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, named the Government Degree College at Bemina on the City outskirts after Kashmir’s revolutionary poet, Abdul Ahad Azad, as a More



  • Jammu

Govt gears up for Panchayat polls

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Dec 29: The government has set in procedures which would ensure successful conduct of Panchayat elections. Minister for Rural Development, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Sagar, More


  • News

JK hospitals ill-prepared to tackle Swine flu

Sanatnagar surveillance centre a sample collection point; SKIMS testing lab still ‘in pipeline’

DANISH NABI

Srinagar, Dec 29: Inadequate facilities and lack of coordination between healthcare workers is posing a grave threat of H1N1 influenza or swine flu pandemic to Kashmir. There has been already a state-wide More


  • GK Business

Slathia reviews performance of JK Cement

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Dec 29: The Minister for Industries and Commerce,   S.S. Slathia,  who is also Chairman of J&K Cements Ltd. today reviewed the performance of the company for the current financial More



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