• TOP STORIES

DAY 3: Varmul simmers

Protests, Clashes Continue; Cops Exercise Restraint: IGP

ALTAF BABA/PTI

Varmul, Oct 4: For the third consecutive day Sunday, this north Kashmir town continued to  simmer with hundreds of youths defying restrictions and clashing with the police at various places, in protest against the killing of a 12-year old boy in police shelling. In the morning hundreds More

For 334 posts, 151 selected from Jammu

Of 21 English Lecturers, Only 3 From Valley

MUDDASIR ALI

PET Selections For Kashmir Districts Srinagar, Oct 4: There seems to be a definite angled pattern emerging in the selections being made by the State Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Services Selection Board (SSB) with the state’s one region grabbing the lion’s More

Rains lash Valley, temperature dips

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Oct 4: After a dry spell, rains lashed several parts of Valley on Sunday bringing down the day temperature by several degrees.According to the metrological department, the summer capital recorded a maximum temperature of 20.9 degree Celsius while the minimum temperature was recorded More

SRTC workers court arrest

Employees’ Unions Threaten Strike In Support

DANISH NABI

Srinagar, Oct 4: While 26 more workers of the Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation Sunday courted arrest to press their demands, including payment of pending salaries, several employees unions have extended them their support with the Employees Joint Action Committee (Q) threatening More

Valley’s erratic climatic change worries experts

‘It Can Trigger Eco-Disaster’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Oct 4: Exceptional climate change in Kashmir mainly due to extensive felling of trees, vandalization of water bodies and global warming has become a matter of grave concern for scientists and environmentalists who mince no words to say that the unusual increase in temperature could trigger More



  • Perspective

History Has Lessons

And the lessons we must not forget

PUNCHLINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

It is a season of marriages. I am not talking of political marriages that are in full bloom during the elections but I am talking about mundane wedlocks that bind two humans together. This week I was at More


  • Op-Ed

Less Science, more Commerce

CLIMATE CHANGE

Anzar A. Khuroo comments on the myth and the reality of a process called climate change.Last week, Greater Kashmir carried out a couple of write-ups on the issue of climate change. The learned professor More



  • Reflections

Of India’s rhetoric and Independent Kashmir

The statement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the plenary session of G-20 summit at Pittsburg in which he accused the Pakistan of using “terror” as State policy against India has come at a time when More


  • Editorial

Eye wash

Even as 7 years have passed since the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajapayee announced a Rs. 6,165 crore ‘package’ for J&K in 2002, the situation remained virtually unchanged in Kashmir as far as More


  • News

For 20 yrs, ailing father looks for missing son

FAHAD SHAH

Srinagar, Oct 4: The 20-year old Mushtaq Ahmad Regoo, a butcher, of Karfali Mohalla here disappeared on March 21, 1989, when he was returning home from Sarai Bala after his father, Ghulam Hassan Regoo More


  • City

Usha Vohra inaugurates Police Public Mela

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 4:  The First Lady of the state, Usha Vohra on Sunday said organizing Police-Public Mela would go a long way in generating resources for deserving police families and would help in improving More



  • News

For 20 yrs, ailing father looks for missing son

FAHAD SHAH

Srinagar, Oct 4: The 20-year old Mushtaq Ahmad Regoo, a butcher, of Karfali Mohalla here disappeared on March 21, 1989, when he was returning home from Sarai Bala after his father, Ghulam Hassan Regoo More


  • GK Business

JK Bank shows way to deal with road accidents

Launches 2 special schemes for Doda, Bhaderwah, Kishtwar

NAZIA AKHTAR

Srinagar, Oct 4: Showing concern to the increasing number of road accidents in Doda, Bhaderwah and Kishtwar, state’s premier financial institution, the J&K Bank, has come up with two special schemes More



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