• TOP STORIES

Solution won’t come from China: Farooq

Asks Sikhs To Seek Fresh Probe In Chattisinghpora Carnage

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Nov 22: National Conference president and Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah, Sunday said the solution to the Kashmir problem would not come from China but it would have to be resolved between India and Pakistan. “The solution (to the problem) won’t More

China favours direct Indo-Pak talks

‘Mirwaiz Trying To Emerge As Great Mediator’

Geneva, Nov 22: China has conveyed to India that it has no intention of playing a broker in Indo-Pak relations and, instead, favours direct talks between them. Beijing has communicated to New Delhi that it respected its (India’s) stance that there was no role for any third party mediation in Indo More

Despite Court orders, no new machines for Dal

LAWDA PASSES BUCK TO DGS&D

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Nov 22: Notwithstanding the High Court orders, the State Government has failed to procure new machines from the US and Finland for conservation of the Dal lake, rousing strong concern among environmentalists who mince no words to accuse it of being non-serious towards restoration of the More

'India committed to resolve all issues'

GK MONITORING DESK

Srinagar, Nov 22: The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has said India was committed to resolving all the outstanding issues with Pakistan through “purposeful and meaningful” bilateral negotiations. “We are committed to resolve all the outstanding issues with Pakistan through purposeful More

Pak bIames India on terror

GK News Network

Islamabad, Nov 22: Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, has said peace in the region would remain elusive till India stopped helping terrorist activities in Pakistan. In an interview to a German news agency, Qureshi said India was helping terrorism in FATA and Balochistan for which sold evidence More



  • Perspective

Discourse Versus Dialogue

Will it help end the uncertainty now?

PUNCHLINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

Sixty two years is not a small period. The Afghans ruled Kashmir for sixty seven years (1752-1819). The Sikhs colonized it for twenty seven years (1819-1846). But the barbs of these rules continue to cause More


  • Op-Ed

Marriage and our Tradition

SOCIETY

Marriage is an institution and there is need to understand the concept in its true sense, writes Muhammad Maroof Shah.What is culture and why is it so important? What are our sacrosanct cultural traditions More



  • Reflections

Why pro-freedom leaders welcome dialogue offer?

This refers to the ongoing talks about dialogue on Kashmir issue. On one hand, the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh claims that there is no place for the separatists in Kashmir after the elections More


  • Editorial

Why this indifference?

The top echelons of state administration have fixed a very tight schedule of meetings, discussions, interactions etc around the Eid festival. This is to force their subordinates to stay put at Jammu besides More


  • News

Civil society asks pro-freedom leaders to unite

‘United we stand divided we fall’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Nov 22: Stating that differences between the pro-freedom leaders were hampering the Kashmir cause, the Kashmiri civil society on Sunday said it would strive to bring the entire leadership on More


  • City

PESKY Power supply

Curtailment in metered areas belies Govt claims

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Nov 22: Leave apart the unmetered colonies, the fully metered areas in the City are facing frequent power cuts belying the government claims of uninterrupted power supply. Since the Durbar More



  • Jammu

Rana meets REZ hunger strikers

11 BJP MLAs to join mega rally

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Nov 22: The relay hunger strike started by the Rehbar-e-Zira’at appointees under the banner of the United Forum of Jammu and Kashmir Agricultural Technocrats Association, entered its seventh day More


  • News

Civil society asks pro-freedom leaders to unite

‘United we stand divided we fall’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Nov 22: Stating that differences between the pro-freedom leaders were hampering the Kashmir cause, the Kashmiri civil society on Sunday said it would strive to bring the entire leadership on More


  • GK Business

Kashmir silk industry suffers for want of reeling units

Spun silk vitiates quality of indigenous carpet

RABIA NOOR

Srinagar, Nov 22: Despite having potential to produce reeled mulberry silk in the Valley, the indigenous carpet industry here largely depends on the imported spun silk, something experts describe as an More



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