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Cholera outbreak: Cases swell

Minor Dies Of Infection; Alert Sounded In Kupwara, Budgam, Banihal

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Aug 29: With a minor dying of severe infection in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district and number of cholera-infected patients in the Valley swelling up to 100, the health authorities Sunday sounded an alert in several areas in Jammu and Kashmir even as the number of patients hit by gastroenteritis More

New Delhi working for political solution to Kashmir: Omar

‘Hope Centre Doesn’t Repeat Mistakes Done In The Past’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Tangdhar, Aug 29: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday asserted that the union government was “actively working” to find a political solution to Jammu and Kashmir centric issues. He expressed hope that the problems facing the state would be settled soon, amicably and peacefully. Addressing More

DIALOGUE ONLY SOLUTION TO K-ISSUE: HOME MINISTRY

‘Separatists, Protesters Must Come On Table’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Aug 29: A senior Home Ministry official Sunday asserted that dialogue was the only way to resolve the Kashmir issue.“Dialogue is the only way to resolve all the issues. The sooner the dialogue is initiated, the better. There have been instances all over the world which have strengthened More

Forces’ new weapon: Torture, thrashing

Youngest Victim 9-yr Old Sameer

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Aug 29: Torture of youth by police and paramilitary CRPF is proving deadly in the current unrest in Kashmir. Among the 64 victims of past 79 days, five persons have lost their lives due to alleged custodial torture and thrashing by the forces, the youngest victim being the 9-year old Sameer More

We were tortured in custody: Youth tell Court

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Aug 29: Several youth who have been arrested in different police raids and booked for staging pro-freedom protests have informed the court that they were ruthlessly tortured in custody.On August 21, police arrested seven youth from Nundreshi Colony, Bemina, in a crackdown. Police later More

PDP directly responsible for present situation:Dr Farooq

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 29: Expressing concern over the plight of the business community in Kashmir which has been hit by the frequent curfews and hartals, the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Resources, Dr Farooq Abdullah, on Sunday alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party was responsible for the More

Curfew in Srinagar, Kupwara

People Throng Markets During Evening Relaxation

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 29: Curfew continued to remain clamped in several areas of Kashmir on Sunday in response to the shutdown call given by the Hurriyat Conference (G). However, the restrictions were lifted in the evening as per the relaxation in the shutdown after 5 PM.  Police and paramilitary More

HURRIYAT (G) LEADER, 4 ORS ARRESTED

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 29: Police on Sunday arrested a senior separatist leader and four others from Baba Demb area of old city, a day after it arrested the Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson, Aasiya Andrabi. Police said advocate Muhammad Shafi Reshi, the acting president of Democratic Political Movement, More



  • Opinion

Indian Intelligentsia Has A Role

After all we are losing lives in Kashmir

PUNCHLINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

Bloodbaths: Sixty four school going children and youth killed- killed gruesomely, hundreds with bullet wounds in their necks, chests, abdomens, legs and arms convulsing in hospitals, many of them disabled More


  • Op-Ed

Don't see, don't hear, don't speak

This is Monkey Politics. Governments have simply refused to acknowledge that the people have rights, that the people are supreme, that the people matter

GUEST COLUMN BY SEEMA MUSTAFA

The debate on Kashmir in Parliament was perhaps the most significant reminder of how far the political class in Delhi is from the happenings in the Valley. The speeches by BJP and Congress members in particular More



  • Letters

Mr. Chief Minister, where should we take our patients?

This refers to the recent announcement of airport closure. It has happened in the face of an elected chief minister who doesn't even have a say to prevail on air force authorities. This was not demanding More


  • Editorial

Of policing

A professional understanding of police invokes the ideas of safety of an individual and an ordered society. But here the routine understanding of police has undergone an unwelcome change. Its role in the More


  • Kashmir

2010 upheaval distinct from past agitations

NEW DELHI INVITES PROTESTERS, NOT LEADERS

GK SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Aug 29: Where the current upheaval in the Valley has become the longest in J&K’s recent history, it has attained many more features breaking it apart from all past agitations.According to More


  • Srinagar City

WHEN GOVINDA’S SANNATA IS DETAINED FOR PESTERING POLICE!

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Aug 29: A decade on since Jis Desh Mei Ganga Rehta Hai hit the box-office in 2000, something pertaining to the Govinda starrer is doing the rounds in Shahr-e-Khaas. This time in police files More



  • Jammu

After 16 years, Jammu witnesses record rainfall during Monsoon

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Aug 29: The Jammu region experienced heaviest ever rainfall in the last 16 years during monsoon this year, reveals figures by metrological department.Describing it as ‘excess rainfall’, meteorological More


  • Business

At 5 PM, markets open to little rush

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 29: Adhering to the ‘strike calendar’ of the resistance group, the markets in the Valley today opened for evening session after 5 PM activating a semblance of commercial activity. Most More



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