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JCC defers strike

Secretariat employees Call It Off

ZULFIKAR MAJID/SYED AMJAD SHAH

Srinagar/Jammu, Apr 13: While the Civil Secretariat Non-Gazetted Employees Union (CSNGEU) Tuesday called off the strike and asked the secretariat employees to resume their duties from April 15 (Monday), the Employees Joint Consultative Committee, deferred the strike for 5-days from Wednesday.Earlier More

Cabinet to decide: CM

JAVAID MALIK

Srinagar, Apr 13: Welcoming the announcement of the two employees unions – CSNGEU and JCC to call off the strike, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that the state Cabinet will now decide the future course of action.“The Cabinet will meet soon to decide the future course of action on More

Employees strike illegal, unjust: HC

Asks Govt To Look Into Their Demands

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Apr 13: The tough stand taken by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on a Public Interest Litigation seems to have prompted the employees to end their 12-day strike, which had virtually paralysed the government.Concluding its marathon hearing on the PIL, the High Court had, earlier, in More

‘FORCES DROWN TEENAGER IN SOPUR’

Case Of Accidental Drowning: IGP

UMER MAQBOOL DAR/GHULAM MUHAMMAD

Sopur, Apr 13: Paramilitary CRPF troopers and personnel of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of Police allegedly drowned a teenager in river Jhelum in this north Kashmir town, 50 km from Srinagar, on Tuesday,“As the clashes between police and protesters were on four teenagers, including the victim More

Kashmir shuts down

DANISH NABI

Srinagar, Apr 13: Amid clashes and undeclared curfew in old city, Kashmir Valley observed a complete shutdown on Tuesday to protest the conviction of six Kashmiris in the Lajpat Nagar blast case.The strike call was given by Hurriyat Conference (G) following Delhi Court’s judgment convicting six More



  • Perspective

Judicial Crisis in Azad Kashmir

It's a tragic development which must worry us

ACROSS THE LINE BY ERSHAD MAHMUD

The removal of Azad Kashmir Supreme Court Chief Justice Riaz Akhatar Chaudhary led to a huge political crisis in the Muzaffarabad. The president of AJK Raja Zulquarnain Khan has reversed the decision and More


  • Op-Ed

Don’t despise. Sympathise!

State Employees

If the ESMA says ‘no work; no pay’, justice demands ‘equal pay for equal work, writes Prof. Muhammad Aslam. Just one day after I wrote my last write-up, Greater Kashmir (9 April) carried an article which More



  • Letters

UN must play its role in conflict zones effectively

The Obama administration seems to have woken up to its long promise of reaching out to the Muslim world by showing its anger at Israel’ continuing with its settlement projects in and around East Jerusalem More


  • Editorial

Highway Disturbance

The 9000 crore project to upgrade Jammu-Srinagar Highway is an urgently needed development work. The pathetic condition of this main duct for traffic in the state goes without saying. The way volume of More


  • Kashmir

Beware before you offer lift!

FAKE JOURNOS HELD FOR CHEATING

KHALID GUL

Awantipora, Apr 13: Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a gang of extortionists posing as journalists in this South Kashmir area. All the six accused including two girls have been arrested and a case More


  • Srinagar City

DOG BITES ON RECORD HIGH!

M HYDERI

From 2073 cases in 2006 to 4400 in 2009-10, the canine attacks are on rise like their one lakh and growing population, which is feared to outnumber Srinagarites in five years.With the Srinagar Municipal More



  • Jammu

Srinagar-Jammu, Batote-Kishtwar highways in bad condition

EMERGENCY HOSPITALS TOO LACK BASIC FACILITIES

MUHAMMAD TASKEEN

RAMBAN, Apr 13: The 300 kilometer Jammu-Srinagar and 110 kilometer Batote-Kishtwar highways have become virtual death traps for passengers. Overloading, acute shortage of public transport, rash driving More


  • South Asia

Govt to deploy 6000 more CRPF personnel

Anti-Naxal Ops

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Apr 13: Government will send around 6,000 CRPF personnel to naxal-affected states of the country including Chhattisgarh where 76 securitymen were recently killed in a Maoist attack.The six battalions More


  • GK Business

Govt seeks increase in royalty on central power projects in JK

JK minister attends Himalayan States’ Power Ministers’ meet

GK NEWS NETWORK

Work on 13 hydro power projects to take off soonNew Delhi, Apr 13: Minister of state for Power Shabir Ahmed Khan has said that 13 new power projects with a capacity of 4108 MWS would be taken up in the More



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