Spark in Darkness

Kashmir Intelligentsia Wakes Up After Long Slumber

PUNCHLINE BY Z. G. MUHAMMAD

I am not a school teacher. So I have no eye for spelling mistakes. The ‘sub’, in me died many years back. It died when I said goodbye to pen and started pressing the keys on keyboard of my computer More

• Be patient

The Economic Future of Jammu and Kashmir

CONCERN

Why has it underperformed at the time when people expected much better, writes Ajaz Ahmad Rather.Statistics can be misleading. Not because they are wrong but innocent enough and therefore susceptible to More

• Students don’t perform. Responsible who?
• One time exemption syndrome

Disrespecting a human body is simply unpardonable

This refers to the photograph of the dead body of policeman killed in the Fidayeen attack being dragged in Lal Chowk Srinagar hooked to a security vehicle (GK 07/01/10). It is really merciless on More

• Poetry blossoms
• Murderous assault
• Intoxicating minds
• Lifting ban
• Apologize now

Rein them in

The recent killings in Kashmir in which innocents lives were lost, particularly the killing of a 16 year old boy Inayat Khan of Malla-Teng Dalgate, Srinagr, on Friday reminds of the brutalities in early More

9, 80,000 children administered polio vaccine in Kmr, Ladakh

No polio case recorded for 10 years: Dir Health

SAMAAN LATEEF

Do Boond Zindagi KaySrinagar, Jan 10: About 9,80000 children below the age group of five years were administered polio vaccine in Kashmir and Ladakh despite inclement weather on Sunday. “Out of the estimated More

• Separatists condemn Inayat’s killing
• Police probing Forest officials’ role
• Jet Airways bus catches fire
• Urs of Hazrat Ghulam Rasool Shah (RA) observed
• High alert sounded along Indo-Pak border

Lal Chowk traders call off strike

AFTER 3 DAYS, MARKET TO REOPEN TODAY

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Jan 10: The traders community of City’s commercial hub –Lal Chowk on Sunday called off their 3-day long strike after a meeting with government on shifting of bunkers from Palladium site and Amira More

• Govt assures action
• Top brass walk sewage overflow at media hub
• ‘Illegal’ construction at Wazir Bagh
• Malik Sahib seeks transformer repairs

IAS officers hold secret parleys with Sangarsh Samiti

SAGHIR REPORT FALLOUT

FIRDOUS TAK

Jammu, Jan 10: In an apparent move to launch a fresh agitation against Justice Saghir panel report, two senior Indian Administrative Service officers reportedly had a closed door meeting with members of More

• Justice Saghir’s report ‘anti-national’: BJP
• Police arrests doc for alleged abetment of suicide
• Police seeks army’s help in tracing bodies
• Cold wave, fog impact Jammu life
• Bamzai appointed V-C Vaishno Devi University

9, 80,000 children administered polio vaccine in Kmr, Ladakh

No polio case recorded for 10 years: Dir Health

SAMAAN LATEEF

Do Boond Zindagi KaySrinagar, Jan 10: About 9,80000 children below the age group of five years were administered polio vaccine in Kashmir and Ladakh despite inclement weather on Sunday. “Out of the estimated More

• Separatists condemn Inayat’s killing
• Police probing Forest officials’ role
• Jet Airways bus catches fire
• Urs of Hazrat Ghulam Rasool Shah (RA) observed
• High alert sounded along Indo-Pak border

Valley gets first exclusive banana ripening store

Can process 4 to 5 truckloads of fruit daily

RABIA NOOR

Srinagar, Jan 10: Here is some good news for the Valley fruit dealers. The Chowdhary Cold Store has launched a state-of-the-art banana ripening store, first in the Valley, at Industrial Estate Zainakote More

• Traders continue boycott of cross-LoC trade
• Inter-regional road link key to boost economy
• Planning commission team inspects dev projects
• BSNL to provide landline, mobile connectivity up to Amarnath cave
• Sham for increasing horticulture production in Jammu