- TOP STORIES
‘Tortured’ Soura teenager succumbs
Abdullah’s Ancestral House Attacked; Youth Injured In Pampore Firing
GOWHAR BHAT
Srinagar, Aug 25: Yet another youth succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday, taking the total number of civilians killed by police and CRPF during the ongoing unrest to 64, bringing the toll at par with the killings during the summer agitation of 2008 over the transfer of land to Amarnath Shrine Board More
CURFEW TO CONTINUE
Srinagar, Aug 25: According to District Magistrate Srinagar, areas under the jurisdiction of Police Stations/Police posts of District Srinagar viz Bemina, Qamarwari, Nowhatta, Khanyar, M.R. Gunj, Safakadal and Maisuma will remain under curfew on August 26 from morning 6 am till further orders.
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Where are Rs 50 lakh?
Hospitals Refute Official Claim On Release Of Money
SAMAAN LATEEF
Srinagar, Aug 25: The claim made by the state government that it has released Rs 50 lakh for treatment of injured patients admitted in city hospitals has proved to be a hoax.Officials in SKIMS said they received only Rs 10 lakh for injured and Rs 1 lakh for Amarnath Yatris. The SMHS and Bone and More
POLITICAL PROCESS WITH PROTESTERS?
Searching For Starting Point: PC
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Aug 25: Reiterating the Centre’s willingness to hold dialogue with all sections to end what he termed the ‘vicious cycle’ of violence in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government was looking for the ‘elusive starting point’ to reach out to the More
‘Saffron terror new threat’
Terrorism Not Linked To Religion: BJP
New Delhi, Aug 25: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said a new phenomenon of saffron terrorism has been uncovered in many bomb blasts.Addressing DGP and IGPs of the states here, Chidambaram said: “There is no let up in the attempts to radicalise young men and women in India. Besides, there More
Govt knocks Civil Aviation Ministry door
Valley Can’t Remain Cut Off For 12 Days: Omar
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, Aug 25: With the people panicky over the proposed closure of the Srinagar International Airport for 12 days from September 1 on account of runway repairs, the Jammu and Kashmir government Wednesday took up the matter with the Civil Aviation Ministry.OMAR SPEAKS
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Flight shutdown unique to Srinagar airport
Thiruvanatanpuram, Mumbai, Delhi Aerodromes Operational Amid Renovations
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, Aug 25: A cursory look at ‘airport closures’ in Google reflects a host of news reports suggesting closure of airports on account of runway repairs. But there is hardly a link which says the repair work caused complete closure of the aerodromes and ensured the complete flight blackout. If More
Yasin Malik released
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Aug 25: The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik, was released from custody Wednesday.Malik was arrested on June 18 when he launched the Jail Bharo movement to protest the civilian killings in the Valley. Malik was released on June 25 but was again More
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Body of teenager Omar Qayoum Bhat being brought out from SKIMS on Wednesday.(Mubashir Khan/GK)
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APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq interacting with Sikh delegation at his residence. The delegations comprising S Avtar Singh Ji Makkar (President SGPC Amritsar) and All Party Sikh Action Committee
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Kashmiris residing in Kathmandu, Nepal, protest against the civilian killings in the Valley.
- Opinion
Forbidden Frontiers
Is Indian media prepared to ask the ‘holy’ questions!
INKSIGHT BY MEHMOOD UR RASHID
First it happened in 2008. Here people smashed the calm, and there media broke silence over Kashmir. News reports, opinion articles, and special discussions – there was a deluge of talk over Kashmir. It More
- Op-Ed
Kashmiris’ Dambulla trick
REALITY BITES
BAND-AIDS OR MACHO NATIONALISM WON’T HELP, COMMENTS PROF. M. I. BHAT
Scoreboard for the team Central-Sate Governments in the vast elliptical stadium – the Kashmir Valley -- is continuously rolling upwards -- some days inching with ones and twos, some days leaping More
- Letters
No communal diversions please!
When India is unable to crush the Azadi sentiment, it resorts to communalism openly. Two years ago when the Amarnath Land row started the then government used RSS and BJP freely to polarize the situation More
- Editorial
Yatra in Kashmir
Despite the Valley being engulfed by unprecedented protests over the past two and a half months, Amarnath yatra has passed off peacefully. Even though stones and bullets flew around on the streets, the More
- Kashmir
Omar got Rs 500 cr kickback in Rattle: PDP
War of words
FAHEEM ASLAM/MUDDASIR ALI
Srinagar, Aug 25: In a scathing attack on the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, Wednesday accused him of having received Rs 500 crore as kickbacks in the Rattle hydroelectric More
- Jammu
Oil tanker owners in Jammu announce state-wide strike
SYED AMJAD SHAH
Jammu, Aug 25: The Jammu and Kashmir Petrol Tanker Owners Association on Wednesday decided to go on ‘indefinite strike’ across the state, in protest against what they termed as government’s failure to More
- South Asia
Vohra reviews relief measures in Leh
Leh: The Governor, N N Vohra today took stock of the loss of life and property due to flash floods and the status of relief and rehabilitation measures launched for the affected persons. In a meeting More




