Silence Speaks

….... and we hear the murmurs in Aga Shahid's poetry

PUNCH LINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

Aga Shahid Ali is the voice of Kashmir in the world of literature.  He, I believe will hold this unique distinction for many more years to come. Today, I am not reminded of him   for his More

• Judging the book by its author

The Curious Case of Shashi Tharoor

HORIZONS

....... AND THE "NEW-AGE" POLITICS TAKING ROOTS IN INDIA, COMMENTS JUNAID AZIM MATTU

Did Shashi Tharoor fail as a "new-age" politician? The question is anything but simple. Our gung-ho approach to confront political insanity has yet again, inevitably taken us to the world of Moral Relativism More

• Praising the Praised One (SAW)
• Unjust move

Just think! To them the best, to us the worst

This refers to the demand of employees and the uproar caused thereof. Yes, the amount shown for the dues exceeds the state revenue. But where from will be met the dues for our legislatures in revised pay More

• Failed diversion
• Tulip garden
• Passport clearance
• Pollution everywhere
• Just think

End this

According to news reports, the academics has become a casualty in the National Institute of Technology as a consequence of mismanagement. The mess in the institution of national importance is causing anguish More

Famed Chinar Bagh to get its lost glory

Heritage park to be commissioned by june

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Apr 25: As part of Government’s endeavour to promote eco-tourism, authorities have started work on war-footing to revive the glory of the historic Chinar Bagh on the banks of Dal lake.  More

• Engineering still ‘favorite’ among Kashmiri students
• Hotels in Pahalgam run without lease agreement
• Close liaison between JK police, forces needed for Yatra: IG Kashmir
• Passenger vehicles violate MVD Act
• Kashmiris were implicated in Lajpat Nagar case: Farida

GPO LOOSING SHEEN

What started as a special mailing service for the British Residency during the Dogra rule, the General Post Office is fast turning into history even as e-mails and mobile communication are instantly turning vogue except for those in jails

TARIQ ALI MIR

The e-mail and mobile communication have eaten away most part of the work what the General Post Office (GPO), Srinagar had been a hub for decades. There’s a 70 percent decline in the number of letters More

• Police arrests accused driver
• Inundated Azad Colony appeals authorities
• PDD’s Baghat sub-division makes hat-trick

Dowry case against Jail Superintendent

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Apr 25: Police on Sunday registered case against the Jail Superintendent on the charges of demanding dowry from his wife, sources told Greater Kashmir.They said, wife of a Jail Superintendent lodged More

• PDP flays govt ban on Pak channels
• PET aspirant seeks justice

‘BSNL fails to provide broadband service to JK subscribers within time’

SHEIKH AHMED

New Delhi, Apr 25: Minister of state for Communication and Information Technology admitted that the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited had failed to provide broadband service to the subscribers in J&K within More

• BSNL EVDO subscribers complain poor connectivity
• Low apple production in China to enhance market for Valley fruit
• Airtel launches World SIM for international travellers
• Infrastructure holds key to boost tourism
• Ansals Grace Ist-phase sold out