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FIR under scanner

Our Immediate Task To See Whether It Is Right Or Wrong: CBI Director

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

SHOPIAN PROBENew Delhi, Oct 12: The Central Bureau of Investigation, probing the double rape and murder of two women in Shopian in May this year, has said it was investigating whether the first information report filed by the Jammu and Kashmir Police was right or wrong More

HC hearing today

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 12: The High Court will hear the Shopian double rape and murder case on Tuesday. On the previous hearing, the High Court had directed the CBI to provide it information about the persons who exhumed the bodies of the two women and conducted their postmortem. More

JCC threatens statewide strike

SRTC IMPASSE

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Oct 12: The Joint Consultative Committee—the apex body of employees’ associations in Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday threatened to launch a statewide agitation if the government didn’t hold negotiations with the representatives of the State Road Transport Corporation in next three days.
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Kupwara shuts down

Inter District Recruitment

UMER MAQBOOL/SHAHID RAFIQ

Kupwara, Oct 12: This frontier district observed a complete shutdown on Monday against the inter district recruitment policy of the government.Cutting across the party lines the activists of the ruling National Conference, Peoples Conference, Peoples Democratic Party and others joined the hundreds More

‘Not much done to preserve environment’

Joint Efforts Needed To Protect Glaciers, Water Bodies: Altaf

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Oct 12: With global warming already showing its signs in Jammu and Kashmir in the form of untimely climatic changes, the Jammu and Kashmir government candidly admitted Monday that no concrete steps had been taken to preserve the environment and to arrest the phenomenon which could lead to More



  • Perspective

Talk time

Why India Should Start Talking to Pakistan. Now.

STATECRAFT BY HAPPYMON JACOB

Politics is a fast changing game; more so international politics. Though statesmen might want to control and constrain it, they may well be in for a few unpleasant surprises. Statesmen desire to maintain More


  • Op-Ed

Maiden but Valuable

BOOK REVIEW

Prof. Muhammad Aslam reviews Ghulam Nabi Khayal’s book Leaves of Chinar.Kashmir lacks good writers and good writings, especially in prose. Therefore, any attempt made to enrich our literary/non-literary More



  • Reflections

Kashmir and Iran: no parallels please

This refers to the letter of Er. Emran Sheykh in which he has tried to compare our “Hartals” with the struggle of Iranian revolutionaries and also suggests that instead of concentrating on loss of “Wealth More


  • Editorial

Foreign Tourism

It is truism that despite being a fragile sector depending upon political stability, tourism has been one of the most important contributors to the state economy. This sector has been contributing ten More


  • News

‘Civil Society of India has remained indifferent towards Kashmir’

ZULFIKAR MAJID

Srinagar, Oct 12: Stressing that he was expressing his views in individual capacity and not as the chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Bank, Dr Haseeb Drabu on Monday said the civil society of India has ignored More


  • City

PLUSH GUPKAAR LAND SOLD FOR PEANUTS

Maharaja heirs throw away 4 kanal Sulaiman Hills land for Rs 4 lakh

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Oct 12: The “controversial” construction of a guesthouse chain on Sulaiman Hills is again in news, this time for the price at which the Nigeen family procured the land and from whom.  Well More



  • News

‘Civil Society of India has remained indifferent towards Kashmir’

ZULFIKAR MAJID

Srinagar, Oct 12: Stressing that he was expressing his views in individual capacity and not as the chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Bank, Dr Haseeb Drabu on Monday said the civil society of India has ignored More


  • GK Business

Govt, private players vow to jointly promote tourism

‘Treat tourists as guests not customers’

NAZIA AKHTAR

Kashmir Festival 2009Srinagar, Oct 12: The government officials and private players at J&K Tourism Industry: Challenges and Opportunities, an interactive programme, vowed to promote Kashmir tourism More



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