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Bullets spare none, 16 or 65

*4 Killed On Friday; 2 In Bomai, 1 Each At Trehgam, Pattan *3 Injured In Nowhatta, Protests Rock Valley

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 13: Four persons were killed and around 150 injured in police and CRPF firing across north Kashmir on Friday. Paramilitary personnel also fired upon protesters in Srinagar injuring three persons.With today’s fatalities, the death toll in the police and CRPF actions in the fresh cycle More


Geelani calls for shutdown today

Gk NEWSNETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 13: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has asked people to observe complete shutdown on Saturday against the killing of four persons by troopers and police on Friday.Geelani, who was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at SKIMS Soura this afternoon More


Protests in Banihal, Rajouri

MUHAMMAD TASKEEN

Banihal, Aug 13: The otherwise calm area of Banihal in Pir Panchal range on the Srinagar-Jammu highway witnessed stone pelting by angry youth on Friday after police used force on a peaceful demonstration against the killing of civilians in Kashmir valley.Though life was normal across this town More


CURFEW TODAY

Gk NEWSNETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 13: Authorities have decided to impose curfew across the Srinagar city on Saturday.“Curfew will be clamped in the city from 6am tomorrow,” the District Magistrate Meraj Ahmed Kakroo told Greater Kashmir. More


Prayers in Jamia Masjid after 6 weeks

Mirwaiz Accuses Abdullahs Of Suppressing Kashmiris

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Aug 13: All roads led to the historic Jamia Masjid here on Friday as thousands of people offered congregational prayers there after six weeks of continuous restrictions.The call for Jamia Chalo was given by Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who had accused the Government More


Volunteers serve packed Sehri, Iftaar at SMHS hospital

50 Days Of Continued Relief

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Aug 13: Providing morning tea and lunch to some three hundred people, and afternoon tea to 900 couldn’t be that easy for a relief committee. But this has been a routine for the volunteers of Syed Karam Shah Sahib (RA) Masjid, Karan Nagar, who provide relief to attendants and patients at More


Tamil students express solidarity with Kashmiris

CONDEMN KILLINGS

Chennai, Aug 13: Over 100 Tamil student activists from Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam (PDK) and other parties, were arrested Friday for organising a protest here against the continuing “atrocities in the Kashmir valley”.While expressing solidarity with Kashmiris, a memorandum by Tamil students demanded More




  • Opinion

Wish you well Pakistan

But sorry we can't celebrate your day here in Kashmir

WORDS WITHIN BY FIRDOUS SYED

Today Pakistan is celebrating its Independence Day. Fortunate are those nations who cherish their freedom.  Fate-bitten nation of ours is engaged in a bloody battle. Our youth are busy in carving More



  • Op-Ed

Party Politics and Democracy

VIEWPOINT

THE POLITICS WE EXPERIENCE AT PRESENT IS ALL ABOUT POWER, PEOPLE DON'T COUNT, COMMENTS MUHAMMAD MAROOF SHAH

Party politics is simply powerlatry or blind worship of the Mammon of power. It is ultimately Gunda raj. You can’t do it, especially nowadays in the third world, if you can’t afford to betray your soul More




  • Letters

Who moved the idea of Independent Kashmir first?

This refers to  Prof. Fida Muhammad Hassnain`s letter (GK 7th Aug) wherein   he has mentioned that Pt. Ram Chander Kak had advised Maharaja Hari Singh to  remain independent. No doubt More



  • Editorial

Saving Lives

Greater Kashmir’s report about the availability of ambulances in Kashmir valley is chilling. A lot of people have written to us and expressed their bewilderment at the unavailability of ambulances in the More



  • Kashmir

‘ATROCITIES FORCE YOUTH TO PELT STONES’

KASHMIR TRAGEDY

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Aug 13: Hilal Ahmad Rather, 22, of Jablipora Bijbehara, who received two bullets fired by paramilitary CRPF troopers on August 1 and is battling for life in the ward no.16-A of SMHS hospital More




  • Jammu

Security tightened in Jammu ahead of I-Day

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Aug 13: Police have intensified night patrol and Naka checking across the Jammu city and its outskirts, including sensitive places like airport railway station and bus stand   ahead of More



  • South Asia

Essential drugs rushed to SKIMS

New Delhi, Aug 13: Union Health Ministry has rushed essential drugs and surgical disposables to the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura in Srinagar for the treatment of injured persons More




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