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Avalanches kill 3 more, toll 20

SHAHID RAFIQ/ FIRDOUS TAK

Kupwara/Jammu Feb 9: Two troopers were killed and 10 others wounded as snowfall triggered fresh avalanches in north Kashmir, while a man was feared dead in Doda district, raising the death toll in avalanches to 20 in 2-days, officials and reports said on Tuesday. “An avalanche hit an army More

Snowfall to continue: Met Office

SASE Issues Avalanche Warning, Snowstorm Hits Drass

GK News Network

Srinagar, Feb 9: The Meteorological department on Tuesday said that snowfall would continue in upper reaches of the Valley from February 9 to 12, while Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE) issued avalanche warning.“Western Disturbances are still persisting over the Valley and snowfall will More

Highway remains closed

1500 Passengers Stranded In Jammu

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 9: There does not seems to be any respite for more than 1500 passengers, from various parts of Kashmir Valley, stranded in the winter capital as the 300 kilometer Srinagar-Jammu highway remained closed for the vehicular traffic for the fourth consecutive day, Tuesday.Official sources More

35 houses damaged in Kupwara

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Kupwara, Feb 9: Snowfall has damaged at least 35 houses in this frontier district, locals said on Tuesday.Snowfall, according to the locals, has wreaked havoc in Lolab, Keegam, Khurhama, Shah Muqam Wali, Kalaroos, Mankal, Butshingi, Rajpora  areas of Kupwara and Handwara. “Roofs of dozens More

Sopur PS attacked, cop killed

GHULAM MUHAMMAD

Sopur, Feb 9: A policeman was killed when militants attacked the Police Station in this north Kashmir town on Tuesday, witnesses said. “Militants appeared from a lane near the Police Station this morning and resorted to indiscriminate firing. One of the bullets hit a cop near the entrance More



  • Perspective

Stone Rage

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

What do stone-pelters stand for?  Freedom  struggle, a pent-up collective anger or a disguised form of recreational sport.For the first time in the past twenty years, a group of masked stone More


  • Op-Ed

Stop them from going berserk

POLICE REFORMS NEEDED

The recent killings have cast a question on the very discipline of Police as institution. To avoid this in future, there is a desperate need to rein them in, urges Aijaz A Wani.The institution of police More



  • Reflections

Mehbooba is right. It is Police Raaj!

It is very hard to digest what pro-India politicians speak or promise in Kashmir. Yet, sometimes you can’t help but agree with them, willingly or unwillingly. I can’t help but completely endorse the views More


  • Editorial

Gear up

‘Deluge is a rain away.’ That is the plight of Srinagar city and many other towns. It took only two days rain and snow for scores of residential colonies in the city to submerge and make many an area inaccessible More


  • News

JKLF calls for strike on Feb 11

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 9: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Tuesday said February 11, the martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Maqbool Bhat, was an inseparable part of the ongoing freedom struggle. Calling for a protest More


  • City

CRPF humiliate, threaten to kill BSNL subscribers

GMT busy in meeting; CRPF spokesman assures action

GK CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Feb 9:  Barely a few hours after authorities lifted 8-day City siege, paramilitary CRPF troops deployed near the main gate of BSNL’s billing counter threatened to “shoot” subscribers.   More



  • Jammu

Rana meets stranded passengers, assures help

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 9: The chief minister’s Advisor, Devinder Rana, today told the stranded passengers that efforts were afoot to clear the Srinagar-Jammu highway adding that in case the road continues to remain More


  • News

JKLF calls for strike on Feb 11

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 9: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Tuesday said February 11, the martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Maqbool Bhat, was an inseparable part of the ongoing freedom struggle. Calling for a protest More


  • GK Business

JK gets 10-yr extension in central excise package

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu Feb 9: J&K Industrial Sector has received a shot in the arm as the state government has secured ten year extension of Central Excise Package/Refund on Value Addition for the State from the Union More



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