Sopore: It’s not apple!

From a Liberated Zone to Police District, this town has always been projected as a rotten apple in the barrel. It simply undercuts the presence of people and reduces the town merely to a territory, making any arbitrary action possible and plausible, both.

INKSIGHT BY MEHMOOD UR RASHID

Sopore’s wish is finally granted; it’s now a district, albeit police district! The town that has already seen many chiefs is now going to have one more - a police chief. ‘Law’ has mounted the offensive More

• Saint(Hood)Lum

Cricket Diplomacy and the Indo-Pak Peace Process

SPORTS POLITICS

WHAT CONFIDENCE CAN YOU THINK OF WHERE POLITICS IS MIXED WITH SPORTS, AIJAZ A WANI COMMENTS ON RECENT IPL AUCTION AND THE EXPULSION OF PAKISTANI CRICKETERS FROM THE TOURNAMENT

The snubbing of Pakistani players at the IPL auction has inflicted a big jolt to the already fragile Indo-Pak peace process in general and the people-to-people contact in particular. Though in other cases More

• Combating Climate Change
• Pakistan wronged

Begin afresh, but don’t open the old wounds

 This refers to your article “a Letter to Kashmiri Migrant pandits” (GK, 02-12-09). I have no nose for political debates, as these can easily be distorted and disparaged. Generally majority has a More

• Losing wings!
• Vet quacks
• Good decision
• Shopian case
• Idiotic this

Preserving Heritage

Even if late, after much damage has been done to the cultural heritage of the State, it is good that the government has realized the need for its preservation. It is heartening that the government has More

Ration shortage hits valley

GK CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Jan 27: The Government has failed to stop pilferage in the distribution of ration by Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution department, leading to severe food shortage in Kashmir. There More

• Family wants Bomai killers behind bars
• Present all witnesses: Court
• HC stays DC's order on Bitta Karatay’s arrest
• Hurriyat (G) condemns continuous detention of leaders
• Work for people’s welfare, Altaf tells cops

Speaker orders probe in patient's death at LD

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 27: The Speaker, Legislative Assembly,  MA Lone on Wednesday ordered inquiry into death of a patient, allegedly due to negligence, at LD Hospital in the City. The woman belonged to his More

• Pro-freedom leaders lay shopping mall foundation stone
• Barzulla bund beautification draws flak
• Dogs prowl at Balgarden, SMC sleeps
• Man falls from 3rd floor, dies
• 27 traders fined for ‘insanitary’ conditions

+2 Lecturers’ Forum hail BOSE efforts

GK NEWS NETWORK

 Srinagar, Jan 27: The Jammu and Kashmir Plus Two Lecturers’ Forum, Kashmir province, general secretary Abdul Majeed Bhat has hailed the efforts of BOSE authorities, especially its chairman and secretary More

• CM approves Industrial Estate at Ompora
• PDD Daily Wagers Union calls off strike
• 2 state awards reserved for non-gazetted officials
• BJP for equitable dev, delimitation of Assembly constituencies
• ‘Allocate Rs 1 crore to each constituency for power’

Ration shortage hits valley

GK CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Jan 27: The Government has failed to stop pilferage in the distribution of ration by Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution department, leading to severe food shortage in Kashmir. There More

• Family wants Bomai killers behind bars
• Present all witnesses: Court
• HC stays DC's order on Bitta Karatay’s arrest
• Hurriyat (G) condemns continuous detention of leaders
• Work for people’s welfare, Altaf tells cops

Govt to invite foreign diplomats to Kashmir over advisories

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

*  UK lowered travel advisory on Kashmir last year*25,000 foreign tourists visited JK Jammu, Jan 27: In a bid to boost tourism, Jammu and Kashmir government plans to hold discussions More

• Drought-like-situation threatens fruit production in Valley
• Airtel to have more document collection centres
• ‘Create Sharia-compliant institutional mechanism in Indian banking sector’
• World Economic Forum meeting opens in Davos
• GST may not meet April 1 deadline