SHARMA IN SOUP

Cong Serves 'Show Cause' Notice To Minister

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Dec 11: In a significant development, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) is learnt to have issued a “show-cause notice” to Minister for Health and Horticulture, Sham Lal Sharma, over his recent “trifurcation of the state” remarks, which had triggered a controversy and debate within More

Back channels working on Kashmir: Pak

Riaz Khan, Satish Lambah In Touch

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Lahore, Dec 11: Pakistan has said that “back channel diplomacy” is being conducted with India to resolve the Kashmir issue. The government of India had Wednesday made similar remarks stating that “Track II” talks with Pakistan were on to discuss Jammu and Kashmir.“Back channel diplomacy with India More

Khanday emerges front-runner

Hunt For New CS

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Dec 11: Principal Secretary to Government Agriculture Production Department Muhammad Iqbal Khanday has emerged as a front runner for the coveted post of the state Chief Secretary.Well informed sources in the civil secretariat told Greater Kashmir that following refusal by Naveed Masood More

Govt to constitute State Land Use Board

No Conversion Permission For Irrigated, Orchard, Saffron Land

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Dec 11: To prevent the reckless use of agriculture land for non-agriculture purposes, Jammu and Kashmir government is coming up with a stringent law, for which the draft bill has already been framed.Once the law comes into vogue, a land owner would lose the independent right to use agriculture More

CRPF men go berserk at Islamia College

Break Windows, Smash Cars After Protest Against Teacher’s Arrest

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Dec 11: Following the arrest of a college teacher, Noor Muhammad Bhat, for allegedly setting a question paper with ‘anti-establishment’ text, students of Islamia College here staged a demonstration against the government decision on Saturday. The paramilitary CRPF deployed to deal with the More

Digvijay tosses 26/11 shocker

‘Karkare Told Me Hours Before Attack That He Feared For His Safety From Hindu Extremists’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Dec 11: Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh Saturday landed himself in a blazing row with remarks on 26/11 Mumbai strikes that riled the BJP and forced the Congress to distance itself from him.Singh, who had on earlier occasions made statements that the party had not fully backed More