• TOP STORIES

TAX SUCCOUR, FUEL SHOCK

Cars, Jewellery To Cost More

SHEIKH AHMED

Union Budget 2010-11New Delhi, Feb 26: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday gave relief to individual tax payers by raising personal tax slabs while introducing a simpler format of filing tax returns from the next assessment year. Mukherjee More

2000 paramilitary jobs for JK youth

Rs 500 Cr For Ladakh

GK News Network

New Delhi, Feb 26: The Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, said 2000 youth from Jammu and Kashmir would be recruited as constables in the paramilitary forces this year.“To recruit Kashmiri youth is the part of confidence building measures centre has been taking in JK,” Mukherjee said in his budget More

Facebook poster, SMS triggers war of words

NC Blames PDP, Demands Apology

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Feb 26: The Facebook poster and SMS row snowballed into a major controversy on Friday with National Conference (NC) terming it a “vicious” act on the part of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The NC has demanded a public apology from the PDP for what it called an attempt to “tarnish” the image More

Have nothing to do with it: Mehbooba

Asks NC To Make SMS Public

GK News Network

Jammu, Feb 26: Reacting strongly to the allegations levelled against her PDP President Mehbooba Mufti, Friday asked the Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather to channelize his energy on redressing grievances of the people instead of wasting time on internet. Mehbooba denied that she was in anyway responsible More

Coalition Coordination Committee meets

Civic Polls: NC-Cong Weigh Pre-Poll Alliance

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 26: The National Conference and Congress coalition in the state is looking ahead to work out a pre-poll alliance for the upcoming local bodies elections besides facing the opposition `together’. Sources revealed that the Coordination Committee of the National Conference and Pradesh More



  • Perspective

Talks at last

And there is no other way out too

WORDS WITHIN BY FIRDOUS SYED

Blowing hot and cold for 14 months, India invited Pakistan for talks. After Mumbai attack in November 2008, India had put in deep freeze its relationship with Pakistan. It even had contemplated punitive More


  • Op-Ed

Salvation lies here

MEELAD U NABI - (SAW)

Make prophet a role model and see all our worries will be gone for good. He was the one who pulled humanity out of the darkness into light. May peace and blessings be upon him, writes  Dr. Fiaz Fazili More



  • Reflections

Baby dies: stone pelters need to feel ashamed

The killing of a sick baby at the hands of "Stone-Pelters" sent shivers down my spine and I begin to wonder whether these "Protesters" are any better than the one they are fighting against. These killings More


  • Editorial

Cheer the Success

It was a step forward. The India and Pakistan Foreign Secretary meet on Thursday is a positive development that needs to be welcomed by   those interested in better relations between the two More


  • News

Sopur encounter leaves trail of destruction

14 HOUSES RAZED, 26 FAMILIES RENDERED HOMELESS

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Chinkipora (Sopur), Feb 26: Three day encounter in this north Kashmir area has left a trail of destruction behind. The gunfight has rendered 24 families comprising nearly 140 souls homeless, besides claiming More


  • City

FROM DAL LAKE to House of Commons

Away from homeland, this lake dweller campaigns against travel advisory in UK Parliament.

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Feb 26: When foreign tourists particularly British shied away from visiting their favorite haunt Kashmir with the inception of turmoil in early ‘90s, the Houseboat owners and other dwellers of More



  • News

Sopur encounter leaves trail of destruction

14 HOUSES RAZED, 26 FAMILIES RENDERED HOMELESS

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Chinkipora (Sopur), Feb 26: Three day encounter in this north Kashmir area has left a trail of destruction behind. The gunfight has rendered 24 families comprising nearly 140 souls homeless, besides claiming More


  • GK Business

Budget 2010-11 Special

Goodies to salaried class

New Delhi, Feb 26: The Finance Minister in the Budget today announced a bumper for individual tax payers. He has changed the tax slabs for men, women and senior citizens. The highest tax slab has now been More



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