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Snow shuts Kashmir

Weather To Improve On Saturday: Met Office

MUDDASIR ALI/KHALID GUL

Srinagar/Anantnag, Dec 30: Kashmir Valley woke up to a thick blanket of snow on Thursday as winter entered full bloom with heavy snowfall continuing from early morning, throwing the life out of gear.The change in weather forced suspension of all kinds of traffic- surface as well as air- to and More

Snowfall in Dec after a decade

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Dec 30: The month of December has brought snow after a decade in the Valley. Since Wednesday it’s snowing heavily in Srinagar and rest of the Valley. It has also led to closure of streets, snapping of electricity, telecommunications and other symbols of modern age.The meteorologists More

India should resolve Kashmir: Pak

AGENCIES

Islamabad, Dec 30: Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit on Thursday said that India should resolve the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations’ resolutions.India should also stop using the terrorist attacks in Mumbai for propaganda purposes, Basit said. Speaking to media representatives More

HC stays trial court proceedings

Army Seeks AFSPA Cover

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Dec 30: The High Court Thursday stayed the trial court proceedings in Machil fake encounter case in which three innocent civilians of Nadihal Baramulla were allegedly killed by Army. Court of Justice Hakeem Imtiyaz Hussain admitted the Army’s petition seeking quashment of the Chief Judicial More

VALLEY CUT OFF

Road, Rail, Air Traffic Disrupted; 75 Vehicles Trapped Inside Jawahar Tunnel

ARIF SHAFI/SYED AMJAD SHAH

Srinagar/Jammu, Dec 30: Due to heavy snowfall Kashmir valley remained disconnected from rest of the world on Thursday with the suspension both surface as well as air traffic to and from the Valley remaining suspended.While Srinagar-Jammu highway was closed last evening following snowfall in Jawahar More

Essential services collapse

Many Areas Reeling Under Darkness; Water Supply Affected

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Dec 30: The continuous snowfall in the Valley since Wednesday evening disrupted the essential services—power, communication and water supply—throwing life out of gear at many places.Due to the overnight snowfall, power transmission lines were snapped in many areas across the Valley. More

AFSPA must in JK: Army

‘Rehabilitation Policy An Important Instrument’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Udhampur, Dec 30: Ahead of the Cabinet Committee on security meet to discuss the proposal of amendment to the controversial AFSPA, a senior army officer Thursday said the Act is a "must" for the functioning of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. However, at the same time the army commander supported More

Militants changing strategy: DGP

‘67 Police Stations For Newly Created Districts’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 30: The Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khuda, believes that militants were changing their strategy in Jammu and Kashmir.“The militants and their mentors have seen the writing on the wall and thus changed their strategy. Ironically they successfully exploited innocent people More



  • Opinion

It is power, stupid

POWER PROBLEM

WHAT A WAY THEY HAVE GOT TO CHEAT US. PAINFULLY ALL IN THE NAME OF DOING GOOD, LAMENTS NISSAR AHMAD

Feeding little energy — read electricity — and bulk of lies, is how they have done it for the last many many decades. Perhaps they too don’t have any other option but to let it go as it has gone and like More


  • Op-Ed

Towards a Healthy City

SRINAGAR CALLS

TRAFFIC MESS, AIR POLLUTION, NOISE, GARBAGE AND WHAT NOT. WE SUFFER ON MANY COUNTS, WE NEED TO ACT, SUGGESTS SYED NABIL

Freedom from pollution is what we need and clean environment is what we seek. For more than half a century we the people of Kashmir have endured, protested, cried and struggled for better civic facilities More



  • Letters

Don't blame rising population for everything

This refers to Prof. Syed Amin Tabish’s article “Challenges and opportunities” about the health sector in Jammu and Kashmir (GK Dec 28). Without challenging the authority of the author to speak on the More


  • Friday Focus

The Eradication of Corruption

PROF G R MALIK

The right way to combat corruption is to seek its eradication and not merely the removal of its symptoms. Wherefrom should the sacred task of eradicating corruption begin? In a brief but comprehensive More


  • Kashmir

Few inches of snow plunge city into darkness

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Dec 30: After the valley witnessed first snowfall of the season on Wednesday evening, few hours of snowing plunged the entire city into darkness with the Power Development Department again failing More



  • Jammu

Govt to regularize all contractual, adhoc employees

Jammu, Dec 30: The Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs on Thursday said that government has decided to regularize services of all contractual, adhoc employees and orders in this regard would be issued More


  • News

Govt warns against unauthorised phone tapping

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Dec 30: Taking a serious note of some telecom companies and private detective agencies operating unauthorised interception of telephone calls, the government today said such companies or agencies More



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