New political panel on Kashmir in the making

Non-UPA, Non-NDA Parliamentarians Meeting Today To Frame Parallel Group

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Dec 26: Following the appointment of interlocutors by the Centre, various national political parties are likely to announce parallel panel on Kashmir Monday. According to sources, parliamentarians from the left and other non-United Progressive Alliance and non-National Democratic More

New curtailment schedule to bring more darkness

Valley To Face Fresh Cuts, People Perturbed

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Dec 26: After a week of delay, the office of the Power Controller Kashmir finally issued the much-awaited ‘power curtailment schedule’ for the Valley on Sunday, but only to disappoint the customers. The curtailment schedule, which came into force from today (December 26), indicated More

Infant given ‘expired’ injections succumbs

Police Register Case, Govt Orders Probe

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Dec 26: A seven-day-old baby allegedly administered expired injectable medicine at GB Pant childrens’ hospital here died on Saturday night, with the family blaming the hospital authorities for his death. The state Government has ordered an inquiry into the matter and police has More

Academics uneasy over police ‘interference’

‘Institutional Autonomy Being Eroded’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 26: The arrest of the two teachers in a span of three weeks has raised serious concerns in many quarters about the involvement of the police in academics. While there is debate about the nature of transgressions of the two academics there is near consensus that the university be left More

Kashmir safe for tourists: Indonesian Envoy

Indonesia Sees Huge Economic Potential In JK

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Dec 26: With the winter tourism picking up in the Valley, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in New Delhi, Lt Gen (Retd) Andi M Ghalib, on Sunday termed Kashmir as a safe destination for the tourists.  Ghalib who is on a four day visit to the State, said Indonesia was exploring More

SHARIF LAUNCHES PML-N FROM PaK

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Dec 26: Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Sunday formally launched his party in Pakistan administered Kashmir, saying it would lay the basis of a revolution in the region. “The PML would not merely be addition of a new political party in the region’s political More

Police recover human skeleton in Pampore

KHALID GUL

Pampore, Dec 26: Family members of Muhamad Maqbool Dar who went missing in 1995 claimed that a human skeleton that police recovered from a house here on Sunday was of the missing youth. After recovering it from a migrant Kashmiri Pandit’s house here, skeleton has been sent for forensic examination More

Curfew continues in Inderkoot

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Dec 26: Curfew continued to remain imposed in a village in Bandipora district of north Kashmir for the seventh day today following last week’s group clashes in which four persons were injured.“Curfew remained in force in Inderkoot village as a precautionary measure,” a police spokesman More

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