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Valley breathes easy

*Curfew Lifted, Rs 15 Cr Withdrawn From ATMs * North Kashmir Peaceful

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, July 4: After 9-day siege and protests, authorities on Sunday lifted curfew in most parts of the Valley, including Srinagar, Varmul, Sopur, Kulgam, Qaimoh and Pulwama. However, curfew was re-imposed in south Kashmir’s Islamabad town after protests broke out during the relaxation period.< More

Restrictions likely today

GK NEWS NETWORK

Authorities are likely to impose restrictions in Srinagar city on Monday to thwart the proposed Islamabad march, the call for which has been given by Hurriyat Conference (G).    “There will be restrictions in the city on Monday,” the deputy commissioner, Srinagar, Meraj Ahmad Kakroo More

ISLAMABAD KILLINGS

Accused cops to face action

Police, Admn Reshuffle On Cards

KHALID GUL Islamabad, July 4: The Jammu and Kashmir government is likely to initiate action against the policemen allegedly involved in the cold-blooded murder of three teenagers here last week. Sources said the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was likely to order police reshuffle More

Help restore normalcy: Omar to civil society

‘K-issue Needs Political Resolution’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 4: The Chief Minster Omar Abdullah Sunday appealed to the civil society to join hands with him and his government to make an “all inclusive effort” to bring about peace and normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir and deliver better governance. He urged the civil society to be a watchdog of his More

Messy Traffic Deptt dreams big

Urges Govt To Introduce Metro Service In JK

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, July 4: In times of mounting vehicular pressure and recurring traffic jams on roads in Jammu and Kashmir, the Traffic Department is dreaming big: asking government to introduce the metro service in the state. “Jammu and Kashmir is a tourist destination for all regions of the world More

Grenade explosion rocks Saraf Kadal

2 CRPF Troopers Wounded

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 4: Two paramilitary CRPF troopers were injured when unidentified persons lobbed a hand grenade at their bunker at Saraf Kadal in old city on Sunday. “The device exploded near a bunker of 44 battalion of CRPF injuring two troopers,” a police spokesman said.They were shifted to hospital More

Yasin Malik released

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 4: After nearly three weeks of detention, police released the chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, on Sunday, a JKLF spokesman said in a statement.   Malik was arrested from Lal Chowk on June 18, when he along with other JLKF activists courted More

VP in Leh

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, July 4: Vice-President of India Hamid Ansari Sunday arrived at Leh for a three-day tour to Ladakh.Ansari was accompanied by his wife Salma Ansari and a team of high level officers from the union government. The Vice-President was received at Bakula Airport Leh by the Deputy Chief More



  • Opinion

Summers of Discontent

What lies ahead for us?

PUNCHLINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

‘Nothing has changed in Jammu and Kashmir for past sixty three years’. It has been much of consequences, who have been at the helm of affairs in New Delhi or who has been running the show in Jammu and More


  • Op-Ed

As Kashmir burns – who cares!

Someone needs to reach out and speak to them!

GK EXCLUSIVE BY SEEMA MUSTAFA

Kashmir is on the boil and the situation is perhaps, worse, than what it has been for years now. And if those in power remain with their heads stuck in the sand, there is every possibility of the state More



  • Letters

Do something for the people of Kashmir

It is very disturbing to hear about the plight of people in Kashmiris. The only medium of information available for us outside J&K state is your esteemed paper which we access from our laptops otherwise More


  • Editorial

Sense and civility

The irony of life is that even the most extreme situations, as a spin off, throw some good to surface. Now take the situation in Kashmir. When an entire population is facing a tough time, hundreds of marriages More


  • Kashmir

SECURITIZATION ACT OF 2002

JK govt, Centre at loggerheads

‘PARLIAMENT HAS NO AUTHORITY TO IMPLEMENT LAWS WITHOUT CONCURRENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURE’

SAMAAN LATEEF Srinagar, July 4: The state government has challenged the implementation of Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SRFAESIA), 2002 More


  • Srinagar City

11 years on, Pampore-Chattabal inland water transport awaits nod

WE THE Srinagarites

GK NEWS NETWORK

A prestigious project on inland water transport for Srinagar City is gathering dust since February 1999.  Eleven years ago, the project report was prepared but since then it rests in the shelves More



  • Jammu

213 PAK HINDUS PAY OBEISANCE AT VAISHNO DEVI

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, July 4: A group of 213 Hindu pilgrims from Pakistan paid obeisance at the Vaishno Devi cave shrine in Trikuta hills in Reasi district, official sources said here today. They said that the group More


  • South Asia

Taliban to launch media regulatory authority

REZAUL H LASKAR

Islamabad, July 4: The Taliban will soon launch their own "media regulatory authority" to monitor press and TV reports to prevent"false" statements about Islam, a militant spokesman said today, warning More


  • Business

Airfares down on Srinagar route

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, July 4: With tourist arrivals coming down sharply to the Valley, the airfares, sky high a week ago, have nosedived on the route.  People associated with aviation industry said even as the More


  • World

India, China discuss possibility of joint projects in Afghanistan

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Beijing, July 4: India and China today discussed the possibility of working in collaborative projects in third countries, including joint initiatives in Afghanistan to tap large mineral resources, as part More



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