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Day 6: Lockout continues

Police To Check Attendance, Foil Lal Chowk March

ZULFIKAR MAJID / SYED AMJAD SHAH

Srinagar/Jammu, Apr 8: The stalemate between striking employees and the state government continued with the strike entering its sixth day Thursday. Police in different districts of Kashmir detained dozens of employee leaders when they tried to take out protest rallies.Sources said government today More

GOVT REVIEWS CONTINGENCY PLAN

Focus On Essential Services

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Apr 8: In view of the intensified agitation of its employees across the state, government has reviewed ‘contingency plan’ so as to meet any eventuality.Sources said that the new contingency plan, reworked by a high level team of the government officials, focuses on the essential services More

‘Resume work’

GK News Network

Srinagar, Apr 8: The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, on Thursday once again asked the employees to shun the path of confrontation and resume duties.“The government recently implemented the recommendations of 6th Pay Commission. To do so, we had to spent Rs 1800 crore. Employees need to keep all the More

Hospitals hit, patients scream

STRIKE FALLOUT

ZULFIKAR MAJID

Srinagar, Apr 8: Though the government has been claiming that work in the state’s health institutions was functioning smoothly despite employees’ strike, the situation in valley’s premier SK Institute of Medical Sciences Soura and SMHS hospitals contradict the official claim.The situation in SMHS More

Monkeying in civil secretariat

No Tea For Babus

FIRDOUS TAK

Jammu, Apr 8: In the absence of employees, monkeys are having a field day in and around the civil secretariat here.On visiting civil secretariat, this correspondent saw groups of monkeys flocking around everywhere in the almost deserted premises. As most of the employees were absent due to the More



  • Perspective

Muslims in India

COMMENT

They will have to fight this policy of discrimination which has made them suffer on all counts,  comments Hassan Zainagairee.Where issues related to Muslims demanded justice, the political class, More


  • Op-Ed

A justified action against an unjust Govt

Employees' Strike

Invoking ESMA is like promulgating AFSPA in the State. The latter has been misused, so will be the former! Comments Prof. Muhammad Aslam.IT seems that J&K Government and its more than four lac employees More



  • Letters

Pitting unemployed against employed is no solution

The strike by Government employees is taking a dangerous turn. It seems the Jammu and Kashmir Government is unable to understand the magnitude of the situation, and, with the result, its functionaries More


  • Friday Focus

The Nature of Revelation

PROF G R MALIK

In one of the profoundest verses of the Quran, Allah (SWT) tells us that it would have been unjust for Him to call man to account without arranging for Prophetic guidance. Says Allah (SWT) that he sent More


  • Kashmir

Nayeem Khan rejects Pillai’s offer

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Apr 8: Stating that arrests can’t break his resolve to fight for Kashmir cause, the senior Hurriyat leader and the National Front Chairman Nayeem Ahmad Khan today said he was being punished for More


  • Srinagar City

Crime Branch files chargesheet against sexploiters

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Apr 8: The Crime Branch of the State police Thursday filed chargesheet against Gulal Ahmad of Dalgate for capturing mobile video of woman in compromising position with him and subsequently blackmailing More



  • Jammu

Better road network tops Govt agenda: Omar

GK NEWS NETWORK

Kishtwar, Apr 8: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said that improving road connectivity and construction of inter-district and inter-provincial roads tops the agenda of his government.“Focused attention More


  • South Asia

Pak lawmakers approve constitutional reforms

REZAUL H LASKAR

Islamabad, Apr 8: Pakistan’s National Assembly today passed by two-thirds majority a package of landmark amendments aimed at stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of his sweeping powers and removing changes More


  • GK Business

Left protests price rise

Calls for universalizing PDS

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Apr 8: As part of its country-wide programme, hundreds of activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Thursday held protest rallies in Srinagar and Jammu. State general secretary, More



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