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 Kashmir. It has always needed a spark, such as, rise in electricity tariff, bus fare, an indiscreet More
Rising Discontent

How long this mayhem in Kashmir?

VIEWPOINT By Abdul Majid Zargar

Last summer, the Valley was overwhelmed by several days of unprecedented non-violent public protest. It was triggered by the rape and murder of two young women from Shopian . But on the streets the people were saying "Hum kya chahte Azadi!" We are hearing this again this summer, triggered by the fake 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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