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Snowfall breaks dry spell

Srinagar-Jammu Highway Closed, Air Traffic Disrupted, Work On Mughal Road Suspended

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Jan 3: Breaking almost a month-long dry spell, the upper reaches and the plains in the Kashmir valley Sunday received light snowfall bringing much needed respite from the cold wave conditions. However, it (snowfall) led to the closure of the 300-kilometere, Srinagar-Jammu highway, only road More

China’s role in AJK projects illegal: Krishna

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 3: Taking exception to China’s involvement in several projects in  AJK, India Sunday, described it as “illegal” and said it had conveyed its concern over this as well as supply of Chinese weapons to Pakistan.Despite differences on a host of issues with China, External Affairs More

JKSPDC starved to oblige NHPC

'Govt Owes Rs 1,200 Crore To State-Owned Corporation'

DANISH NABI

Srinagar, Jan 3: The state government has left the Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation virtually cash starved. It owes a whopping Rs 1,200 crore to the state-owned Corporation leaving it penniless to execute various power projects and, in the process provides space to the National More

Northern Grid snag set right

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 3: The Power Development Department (PDD) on Sunday said the weather-induced technical snag in the Northern grid, which led to a major power breakdown in Jammu and Kashmir, and several neighboring states yesterday, had been set right.The Commissioner Secretary Power told Greater Kashmir More

Prepaid ban to go by January 15

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 3: The ban on prepaid mobile phone service in Jammu and Kashmir is likely to be lifted by January 15.The Centre is finalizing a “fool-proof” plan to ensure proper verification of nearly 38 million cell phone subscribers in the state, official sources said here on Sunday.The More



  • Perspective

My Dream Not Realized

But Hope Still flickers- and flickers bright

PUNCHLINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

It is 2010. Oh! My good God- one decade of the twenty-first century has ticked away- I had never imagined that one full decade of the new century would run away so fast. I had sung many times, ‘time is More


  • Op-Ed

Shopian, the CBI and the ‘Politics of truth’

ViewPoint

LOSING CONFIDENCE IN STATE INSTITUTIONS IS A SERIOUS MATTER, COMMENTS AIJAZ A WANI

Knowledge is Power (Francis Bacon)          On Dec 17, 2008 the parents of a 13 year old girl, who was gang raped by the troops on Dec. 3, 2008, were among More



  • Reflections

Saghir Report: not much to offer

This refers to the news about the Saghir report. Politicians know the art of politics but this time the report was submitted in a hotchpotch manner. Saghir Working Group report is a bolt. Though it professes More


  • Editorial

Too many meetings

Sounds incredible! With the annual Durbar Move the state government becomes hyper-active. More-so when the seat of power shifts to the winter Capital. It is not that mountains start moving but its ‘activities More


  • News

HM seeks report, probe ordered

Escape Of 3 Pak Nationals

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 3: Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna today ordered an inquiry into the escape of three Pakistani nationals, who were being escorted to a city hospital, after the Home Ministry sought a report More


  • City

X-ray film shortage hits B&J hospital

Patients asked to get tests done privately

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 3: The patients face inconvenience at Valley’s sole orthopaedic hospital –the Bone and Joint Hospital, Barzulla due to non-availability of X-ray films leaving them with no options but to More



  • Jammu

IIPA regional branch elects new office bearers

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 3: The Annual General Body Meeting of the J&K Regional Branch of the Indian Institute of Public Administration was held on yesterday at the IIPA building, Jammu during which the Office Bearers More


  • News

HM seeks report, probe ordered

Escape Of 3 Pak Nationals

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 3: Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna today ordered an inquiry into the escape of three Pakistani nationals, who were being escorted to a city hospital, after the Home Ministry sought a report More


  • GK Business

2009 let aam admi down

Price hike crossed decade high

NAZIA AKHTAR

Srinagar, Jan 3: With the inflation crossing a decade’s high, 2009 gave jitters to aam admi. Even as in the first half of the year inflation remained quite low, thanks to the recession across the world More



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