- TOP STORIES
15 shot in Tral, 2 in Varmul
4 Critical; Valley-Wide Protests Continue; Prayers Not Allowed In Bandipora
KHALID GUL/GOWHAR BHAT
Srinagar, Aug 16: Curfew remained clamped across several towns and districts of the Valley on Monday to check pro-freedom protests on the call of Hurriyat Conference. However, people defied curfew at a number of places here and in south Kashmir townships of Tral and Kokernag staging protests and demonstrating More
Woman hit by shell, critical
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Aug 16: A woman, Syeda Begum, was hit in head by a shell on Monday when police fired scores of tear gas shells to disperse protestors who were demonstrating against arrest of three persons including the victim’s husband at Shalimar in the city outskirts here.Eye-witnesses said early in More
No prayers in Hazratbal shrine for 3rd day
Remove Police From Complex: Residents
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, Aug 16: The cry for demilitarization of the famed Hazratbal shrine is getting shriller with each passing day, with people asserting that no prayers would be offered there till police was not removed and their barracks shifted.The demand comes in the wake of Saturday’s police firing and More
POLICE REMAND OF KASHMIRI STUDENTS EXTENDED
Career Of 14 Students In Jeopardy
GK NEWS NETWORK
Jammu, Aug 16: A local court here has sent to five days remand all the 14 students, arrested for allegedly staging protests and raising pro-freedom slogans outside Jammu University last week.The Court directed the authorities to conduct the medial examination of the students after every 24 hours More
KASHMIR BAR OFFERS LEGAL AID
Parents Seek CM’s Intervention
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Aug 16: With the career of 14 Kashmiri students hanging in balance after they were arrested by Jammu police and booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for staging peaceful demonstrations against killings in Kashmir, the Kashmir Bar Association on Monday has offered legal aid to them More
Banihal tense over arrests
5 Youth Shifted To Udhampur Jail
MUHAMMAD TASKEEN
Banihal, Aug 16: The mountainous Banihal tehsil of Ramban district remained tense as the residents observed a shutdown for the fourth consecutive day on Monday in protest against the arrest of some youth by the police for staging protest against the killings in Kashmir Valley.While police has More
Shoe-thrower in police remand
‘I WAS BEATEN RUTHLESSLY IN CUSTODY’
SAMAAN LATEEF
Srinagar, Aug 16: A local court here on Monday sent Head Constable Abdul Ahad Jan of Ajas Bandipora to police remand till August 21. Jan hurled a shoe on chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday.Police produced Jan before the court of Forest Magistrate, Masrat Roohi, for seeking the remand. Jan More
Omar in elite company: Farooq
‘CM’s security apparatus useless’
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Aug 16: Making light of Sunday’s incident in Srinagar in which a shoe was flung towards his son, J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah today said it was “wonderful” that he has joined the elite club of former US President George Bush, Pakistan President Asif More
Running for Cover:
Police chasing a group of women protesters at Shaheed Gunj in civil lines area of Srinagar city on Monday.(Aman Farooq/GK)
- Opinion
Think afresh
And see how it works well for Kashmir
IMPRESSIONS BY UDAY SHANKER
The past few months could have been a turning-point for Kashmir vis-à-vis Government of India. Everything, ranging from daily street protests encompassing anger, frustration, sentiment was More
- Op-Ed
Stones. Shoes. What next are we waiting for?
VIEWPIONT
MEANS OF PROTEST MIGHT HAVE CHANGED, VOICE REMAINS THE SAME. THE VOICE OF ANGER, HATRED AND REVULSION, COMMENTS MASROOK DAR
Two years before when an Egypt-based al-Baghdadia Television Network Journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at United States president George W Bush at a Baghdad press conference It made to news More
- Letters
Too much of teargas shelling can cause disability
This refers to the rampant use of tear gas shells in Kashmir. Tear gases are organic compounds commonly called lachrymatory agent or lachrymator that stimulates corneal nerves in eyes, resulting in pain More
- Editorial
A Step Backward
Speaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort, on the 63rd anniversary of India’s Independence, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tried to reach out to the people of Jammu and Kashmir for the second time in a More
- Kashmir
Stone pelting, shutdown won’t yield anything: Omar
APPEALS PEOPLE TO HELP RESTORE NORMALCY
GK NEWS NETWORK
Keran, Aug 16: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that stone pelting, shutdowns and violence would not yield anything. “We have undergone a saga of militancy and we More
- Jammu
Shoegate generates political debate
PDP, BJP, JKNPP SEEK CM'S RESIGNATION
RAJEEV SHARMA
Jammu, Aug 16: Hurling of a shoe towards Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, during I-Day parade at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar by a policeman has triggered a debate in the winter capital. More
- South Asia
Army Chief oversees relief work in Leh
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Leh, Aug 16: With about 6,000 Army men involved in rescue and relief operations here following the cloudburst and flash floods, Chief of Army Staff, General V K Singh today paid a visit to oversee the More
- World
Kashmiris protest outside Indian mission to UN
CALL FOR K-RESOLUTION, HALT TO KILLINGS
New York, Aug 16: The Non Resident Kashmiris on Sunday held a peace rally outside the Indian Mission to the United Nations here urging the international community to help in the resolution of Kashmir issue More
