Need to address alienation of JK youth: Sonia Gandhi

‘Want To Give New Energy To Political Process’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Dec 19: Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi Sunday underscored the need to address “the alienation of the whole new generation of youth” in Jammu and Kashmir “that has known nothing but conflict”.  “We have to find an answer in Jammu and Kashmir why an entire generation that has More

DIGVIJAY AGAIN

'RSS, BJP Hate Muslims Like Nazis Hated Jews'

New Delhi, Dec 19: Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh launched a sharp attack on the RSS and the BJP, likening their “hatred” towards Muslims to that of the Nazis towards the Jews and claiming that the “roots of terrorism” in India lie in BJP leader L K Advani’s 1992 Rath Yatra.Hitting out More

Clamour for Lapse Fund Account grows louder

‘Proviso In Vogue In Some Northeast States’

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Dec 19: With the release of funds towards the fag end of the fiscal hitting the developmental activity in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly the Valley - that has limited working season - the demand for creation of the “Lapse Fund Account”, for ensuring maximum utilization of the allocated More

DOWNTOWN: Desire and despair in the minimum city

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Dec 19: Downtown city is in a state of terminal physical decay. This is obvious from the crumbling facade of masonry along its roads and the densely settled interiors—the ongoing road widening work notwithstanding. What is, however, not obvious is the toll that the evolving situation in More

Home Ministry reveals perks for K-interlocutors

Rs 1.5 Lakh A Month, Status Of State Guests,Executive Class Travel, Official Accommodation

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Dec 19: Each one of the three-member team of interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir will get ` 1.5 lakh as monthly remuneration and enjoy the status of a state guest when visiting the state. The three interlocutors, journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, academician Radha Kumar and economist More

People against JK’s trifurcation: Padgaonkar

Rajouri, Dec 19: Head of the interlocutors’ panel on Kashmir, Dileep Padgaonkar Sunday said that people in Jammu and Kashmir were against its trifurcation and want unity and integrity of the state to be preserved.The three interlocutors arrived here this morning. One of the interlocutors Prof Radha More

Srinagar shivers at -5.6 deg C

Srinagar, Dec 19: The summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir recorded it coldest night of the season with mercury dipping to minus 5.6 degrees Celsius, with thin layer of ice forming on waterbodies here, MET officials said.Srinagar broke its earlier record of minus 5.2 deg C, noted last week, as More

China treats J&K ‘out of India’

AGENCIES

New Delhi, Dec 19: Just a couple of days after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India, China has created another controversy by adding a new twist to border disputes with India. A Xinhua, mouthpiece of the Chinese government, report has desribed the Sino-Indian border as 2,000 km long, ignoring More