• TOP STORIES

112 die in Leh flash floods

Massive Relief Operation On; PM, CM Announce Ex-Gratia

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA/GKNN

Leh/Srinagar, Aug 6: Over 112 people were killed and a few hundred more are feared washed away in a cloudburst followed by torrential rains and flash floods that devastated this Himalayan town in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir early this morning.Eyewitness accounts and other sources fear that More

OMAR RUSHES TO LEH

Srinagar, Aug 6: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday rushed to Leh to take first hand appraisal of the situation that has arisen due to the cloudburst and heavy rains.Omar also reviewed the measures for rescue and relief operations being carried out by the army, police and district administration More

NO DEATH AFTER A WEEK

Sopur Youth Shot In Head; Protests Cross Pir Panchal; Jamia Masjid Locked On 6th Friday

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 6: A youth was critically injured when police opened fire to disperse a peaceful protest demonstration at Sopur in north Kashmir on Friday even as massive pro-freedom demonstrations rocked the entire valley. The demonstrations today spilled over across Pir Panchal as people in Doda, More

RAF with UN tag stage march in City

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Aug 6: Anti-riot Rapid Action Force was deployed in the Srinagar city on Friday to quell the raging protests in the city. It is for the first time that this specialized wing of the paramilitary forces has been called in for maintaining law and order in the Valley.The deployment comes More

For 8th day Kashmir under curfew

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 6: With Kashmir continuing to reel under strict curfew for the 8th consecutive day Friday, reports about shortage of medicines, food items and other essentials are pouring in from various parts of the Valley.The health system has been severely affected in the summer capital here with More

Geelani rejects

NC Welcomes; PDP For CBM’s First

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Aug 6: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday rejected the talks offer by Home Minister, P Chidambaram and maintained that he won’t indulge in any dialogue process unless India accepts Kashmir a disputed territory, withdraws its troops from the Valley and More

Delhi invites separatists for talks, Geelani included

WILL PICK UP THREADS TO REACTIVATE POLITICAL PROCESS: CHIDAMBARAM

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 6: Observing that it wanted to “win the hearts and minds” of the people of Kashmir, the government Friday said it would resume dialogue and asked the separatists, including Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, to join it.Home Minister P Chidambaram told the Rajya More

GoI begins consultations

New Delhi, Aug 6: Home Minister P Chidambaram has begun series of consultations with Kashmiri opinion makers to explore ways to salvage the situation in the turmoil-hit Valley.Chidambaram, on Thursday and Friday, met select group of opinion makers, mostly Kashmir-based journalists in Delhi, a wire More



  • Opinion

Documenting Resistance

We must script our story – ourselves

WORDS WITHIN BY FIRDOUS SYED

Suppression after all is suppression. What is cruel can only be described as inhumane. There is no other way to define the brutality. If anybody is still not convinced that what is going on in Kashmir More


  • Op-Ed

The story of pain and misery

KASHMIR BURNS

KASHMIR IS BLEEDING. IS ANYBODY LISTENING? ASKS DR JAVED KHAN

An eerie of silence has fallen all around. The streets and roads are deserted; occasionally the siren of an ambulance breaks the monotony. Markets are empty, shops are closed, road side kiosks and hand More



  • Letters

Had Sheikh joined hands with Kak?

This refers to the letter We  Mourn by Dr.Dhar (Greater Kashmir,  August 4). He says that it was Pandir Ram Chandra Kak, the then Prime Minister of the Jammu & Kashmir State who had raised More


  • Editorial

Humanitarian concerns

As the complete disruption of normal life in Kashmir Valley is now about to enter the third month, the situation for more than six million people living in this landlocked place is aggravating with each More


  • Kashmir

Trying to save uncle, boy shot in abdomen

18 year Old Owais Nasir Battling For Life At SMHS Hospital

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Aug 6: In ward no 16 of the SMHS hospital here, an 18-year-old boy is battling for life and a double-edged pain - that of losing his uncle and having himself got a bullet in the abdomen.  More



  • Jammu

3 kids killed in Rajouri house collapse

20 school children hurt in mishap

SHAFIQ MIR

Rajouri, Aug 6: Three children were killed and another injured on Friday when two houses adjacent to each other collapsed due to heavy rains at a village in Rajouri district. Two houses collapsed More


  • South Asia

Appoint representative to review K-situation: JKSM to UN

Muzaffarabad, Aug 6: The Pakistan Administered Kashmir APHC chapter leader and J&K Salvation Movement acting chairman, Tufail Altaf Bhat has appealed to the United Nations to appoint a representative More



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