The Battle for Kishenganga

So is it ‘Deuce’ or ‘Advantage Pakistan’?

DATELINE SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

The India-Pakistan battle for Kishenganga Hydro-electric Project is now international. Late May, Pakistan informed India that it had instituted arbitration proceedings on the Kishenganga issue with the World Bank on May 18, 2010. It cited failure of bilateral talks with India on the project and the More
Of three blind men

Their blindness had a touch of difference

NOSTALGIA By ZGM

Many a time, when I look back, I feel that there was a mystical aura around everything in my part of the city. I don’t know if our minds had got conditioned to believe that or the part of city I was born in was really wrapped up in mysticism. But, I have very strong impressions that the mornings I More
Public Climate

Is mind-controlling always a piece of good fortune?

Freeze Frame By Syeda Afshana

Hitler in his Mein Kampf writes, “How fortunate for those in power that the people don’t think”. If we go beyond the rash dismissal of anything that one of the true scourges of humanity has said, we can sometimes ponder the usefulness of probing the recesses of a dark mind. If Hitler could find a More
Beware! You can be cheated

Emails can be deceptive as this one

WHATS UP SAJJAD BAZAZ

The content of the SOS mail from my Jammu-based friend received a few days back in the late evening in my mail inbox was shocking on two counts. The mail, in the first instance, said, “I am sorry I didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa for a programme called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism More
  • Kashmir

Pak HC invites Mirwaiz

Ahead of Indo-Pak talks

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 19: Ahead of the crucial Indo-Pak bilateral talks on June 24, Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has invited Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, to New Delhi for consultations More


  • Srinagar City

SPS MUSEUM

While artefacts will be shifted to their adjoining new abode in a few months, the old museum building will live to tell its tale

GK NEWS NETWORK

The Shri Pratap Singh (SPS) Museum building, which has been housing Valley’s artefacts for the past over a century is a heritage building with a history of its own. Historians said the Museum establishment More



  • Jammu

Don’t interfere in our religious affairs: Leela Karan to Geelani

AMARNATH PILGRIMAGE

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, June 19: Asserting that Hurriyat Conference (G) Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani had no locus standi to interfere in the religious affairs of Hindus, former convener of Sangrash Samiti Leela Karan More


  • South Asia

CORE CURRICULUM IN SCIENCE, MATHS ENDORSED BY STATES

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 19: Come 2011, all states will have a common curriculum at senior secondary level in science and mathematics, a step that would pave the way for a possible common entrance test for admission More


  • Business

‘Doha round will not hit JK export industry’

NAZIA AKHTAR

Srinagar, June 19: J&K export industry is not going to be affected by the Doha round of trade negotiations, said experts at a day-long workshop ‘WTO Agreements and Implications for Select Industries More


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