- TOP STORIES
PM promises dialogue, political solution
Calls For Early Local Body Polls: Announces Expert Group On Job Plan
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Aug 10: Unveiling a fresh initiative to address the unrest in Kashmir, prime minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday urged the people there to “give peace a chance” and promised a sustained “internal and external” dialogue for resolution of the state’s problems.In his first public comments More
'Devolution of powers subject to consensus'
New Delhi, Aug 10: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh Tuesday said that the Central Government could consider devolution of powers in Jammu and Kashmir, if there is a consensus on the issue within the state. CPI (M) state secretary M Y Tarigami, who attended the all party delegation from Jammu More
Kashmiris not fighting for jobs: Separatists
Political Initiative Should Be Priority: Mainstream
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Srinagar, Aug 10: The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech has evoked mixed reaction here with the separatist leaders maintaining that jobs and economic packages can’t be substitute to the right of self-determinations while the mainstream parties see it as an opportunity to restore peace in the More
‘Arrested’ student found dead
3 Youth Shot In Gojwara; Protests, Sit-Ins Across Valley; Prayers On Roads
ALTAF BABA/GKNN
Varmul/Srinagar, Aug 10: Body of a north Kashmir teenager who was allegedly arrested by police on July 28 was fished out from Ningli Nallah near Churu this evening, taking the toll of those killed in recent unrest to 52. The death triggered massive protests against police who resorted to aerial firing More
Geelani put under house arrest
Srinagar, Aug 10: In a bid to foil the Pampore Chalo on Wednesday, the authorities put the Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani, under house arrest on Tuesday evening.Reports said a large posse of police cordoned the veteran leader’s house at Hyderpora and put him under house More
Jammu students protest Kashmir killings
Cops Hunt For Protesters
SYED AMJAD SHAH
Jammu, Aug 10: Police is hunting for the students of Jammu University who staged a demonstration outside the campus here on Tuesday against the killings of youth in Kashmir.Eyewitnesses said that hundreds of students, mostly belonging to Kishtwar, Doda, Rajouri, Poonch and Kashmir region, assembled More
TENSION GRIPS JU
Students, NGO Members Clash
GK NEWS NETWORK
Jammu, Aug 10: Tension gripped Jammu University campus after a clash broke out between a group of students and members of a civil society in the University campus, this afternoon.Official sources said that Police later registered a case under section 107/151 RPC against two persons, including a female More
SKIMS writhes in pain
Victims Of Police,CRPF Action Tell Agonising Tales
MUDDASIR ALI
Srinagar, Aug 10: The night has fallen. There is deceptive calm on the roads. A fast moving ambulance ferries the latest victim of government forces to Srinagar’s SK Institute of Medical Sciences.Ishtiyaq Ahmad of Mehjoor Nagar, a salesman, was allegedly thrashed by CRPF troops a few days ago More
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A girl holding a placard during a sit-in protest organised by Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee in Hyderabad on Tuesday demanding immediate halt to the killings in Kashmir.
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People protesting against the killings in Kashmir in Muzaffarabad on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing All Party delegation from JK in New Delhi on Tuesday.
- Opinion
Omar and Abdullah
It's nothing but the politics of power
POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is up against the full fury of Kashmir and he has emerged none the better for it. His leadership is now openly questioned and the murmurs for his ouster are getting louder More
- Op-Ed
A Letter To Unknown Indian
CRISIS CAST IN STONE
WHEN PAIN MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO ARTICULATE COHERENTLY, QUIET REMEMBRANCE HELPS. LIKE MANY OTHER KASHMIRIS, I HAVE BEEN IN SILENCE, COMMITTING TO MEMORY, THE DEED, THE DATE, WRITES BASHARAT PEER
WHEN POEMS WRITTEN about totalitarian regimes echo in the hearts of a people purportedly living in a democracy, it is time for that democracy to take a hard look at the mirror. Over the past two months More
- Letters
Nothing but bartering nation’s honour for chair
This has reference to Prof. Fida Muhammad Husnain’s letter (GK, 06 August) in eulogisation of the patriotism of R.C. Kak. While no serious historian believes in ‘ifs’ of history, nonetheless, it must be More
- Editorial
Rapid Thoughts
As the situation is becoming impregnable to any breakthrough, there are columns of worries that forbiddingly march towards us. Taciturnity might be the running wisdom, but the fearsome shapes ominously More
- Kashmir
Mulls use of heat ray guns,intolerable sound against protesters
RAPID ACTION FORCE IN KASHMIR
M HYDERI
Srinagar, Aug 10: A heat ray gun which causes burning sensation on the target so much so that it wants to remove clothes could sound like a science fiction. But this is what the Rapid Action Force (RAF More
- Jammu
Shiv Sena’s youth wing to hoist tricolour at Lal Chowk
Jammu, Aug 10: Bhartiya Vidharthi Sena, the youth Wing of Shiv Sena, is going to hoist tricolour at Lal Chowk on August 15, said its state president Vikrant Sharma. He demanded adequate security More
- South Asia
CPI (M) YOUTH WING PROTEST AGAINST KASHMIR KILLINGS
New Delhi, Aug 10: The Democratic Youth Federation of India and the Students’ Federation of India held a demonstration against the Kashmir killings at Parliament Street here on Tuesday Students from More
- World
Kashmir Killings: NRKs hold protest in Washington
ASK OBAMA TO DEPUTE ENVOY
Washington, Aug 10: Kashmiri Americans held a peace rally outside the Indian Embassy here to register their protest against the recent killings and human rights violations perpetrated by the police and More
