Soz to head Hajj delegation

Press Trust of India

Srinagar, Nov 20: In deviation of convention, Jammu and Kashmir state Congress chief Saifuddin Soz has been nominated as leader of Indian goodwill Haj delegation this year. “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has nominated Soz as leader of goodwill Haj delegation this year. Soz will lead a 20-member More

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Court awards compensation in fake encounter case

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Nov 20: The High Court has directed the State Government to pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to the family of a minor killed in a fake encounter by troops in Tangdhar. The Single Bench of Justice Hakim Imtiyaz Hussain, in the case Muhammad Amin Banday versus State of Jammu and Kashmir More

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AH deptt organizes camp

GK News Network

Srinagar, Nov 20: As a part of its awareness campaign, the Animal Husbandry Department, Kashmir, organized a vaccination and dosing camp at Sogam, in Kupwara district on November 18, where free literature and medicines were distributed to the livestock owners as an incentive under NPRE scheme.  More

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Play constructive role: Sagar to opposition

GK News Network

Srinagar: Asking the opposition to play a constructive role, the Minister for Rural Development and Law, Ali Muhammad Sagar has said that instead of criticizing the government, they should provide feedback about various government programmes. Speaking at public durbar cum review meeting at More

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Kashmiri sculptor bags prize

GK News Network

Srinagar: A Kashmiri sculptor bagged the top prize in International Delphic Games Art Competition at Jeju, South Korea. Shabir Mirza of Srinagar was chosen as the best sculptor by the jury comprising Prof In-Su-Choi of Seoul National University of Fine Arts and Terry Shave of Nottingham Trent More

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Kashmiri translation of Qur’an on internet

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 20: A Saudi Arabia-based religious website, www.al-fajar.com, has put the Kashmiri translation and commentary of Qur’an on the internet.  The Kashmiri translation is authored by late Mufti Syed Ziaulhaq Bukhari, originally from North Kashmir More

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Landmines killed 3,000 in 10- years: Report

New Delhi, Nov 20: Some 3,000 persons, mostly in Jammu and Kashmir, have been killed in landmine explosions over the past 10 years, according to an NGO working for a world free of antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions. ‘In the last 10 years, around 3,000 persons died due to landmines More

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Bombers kill 18 in Afghanistan

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Kabul, Nov 20: Bombers today killed 18 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai’s second term in office that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war. The attacks brought to 30 the number of people killed since Karzai was sworn in for another More

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Drone attack kills 8 in Pak

Press Trust of India

Islamabad, Nov 20: At least eight Taliban militants were killed today in a US drone attack in Pakistan’s troubled North Waziristan tribal region, the second such strike in the area within three days. The drone attack occurred in Macchikhel area near Mirali, a key town in North Waziristan tribal More

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'Cross border fertilisation of terrorism in Pak'

Press Trust of India

Washington, Nov 20: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said there was cross border fertilisation of terrorism in Pakistan from Afghanistan and the US would continue to press Islamabad to go after extremists in the country. “We know that there is a cross border fertilisation of extremism More

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'Work on Guru Nanak varsity from January'

Press Trust of India

Lahore, Nov 20: After years of promises, the Pakistan government will finally begin work on setting up a university named after Guru Nanak at his birthplace of Nankana Sahib and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will lay its foundation stone in January next year. Syed Asif Hashmi, chairman of More

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