Anger that may result in insurgency

HOW MANY MORE

Such killings of innocent persons will only alienate the people. Things need to be controlled so that this bloodshed is averted, writes Tanvir Sadiq

I was sitting with some of my friends the other day and we were discussing the unabated killing of youth, when one of them received a call that yet another boy has been shot dead while protesting the death of his cousin, Muhammad Rafiq Bangroo, who was seriously injured in the brutal beating by the More
It’s all patriarchy

FEEDBACK

Kashmiri woman has to make herself competent enough to work out her own definitions of emancipation rather than let men set frames for her mind and body, Ishrat Bashir reacts to an article in Greater Kashmir

They shut me up in prose-as when a little girlThey put me in the closetBecause they liked me “still”Emily DickinsonThis refers to the article Women’s place published in Greater Kashmir on June 16. The author has started with an argument about the stereotyping of Kashmiri women but More
Save lives, don't shed blood

FEEDBACK

It's tragic that police is doing exactly the reverse. The way things are shaping up in the valley is too dangerous to be forgotten. Government must rein in police force so that public reposes trust in them, writes Aijaz Ahmad

This refers to your editorial on the recent killings by police action. (GK June 14, 2010). It should serve an eye opener to people at the helm. If men in uniform who were supposed to save a life failed to do so, instead have committed a murder , and the men in civvies made an effort facing all odds More
  • Kashmir

Lack of coordination add to traffic mismanagement

BSNL, PHE, PDD, UEED contribute to chaos

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, June 21: In addition to mounting vehicular pressure, lack of coordination among various government agencies contribute significantly to traffic mismanagement in Jammu and Kashmir, especially More


  • Srinagar City

WHEN SABEELS SERVE AS MEMORIALS

While some of the public taps vanished after ‘90s, the rest like the one at Noor Bagh, continue to quench thirst as another hot summer grips the Himalayan region Capital

M HYDERI

A BRIGHT sun makes the water droplets shine as they trickle down a public tap cemented with graffiti at Wamiya Chowk, Noor Bagh in old City area of Srinagar. “(In memory of the Martyr) Bashir Ahmed More



  • Jammu

SMGS paediatrics department awaits shifting since 2008

‘EQUIPMENT GATHERS RUST’

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, June 22: Two years after the building for separate paediatrics department was completed in Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh Hospital here, the authorities have yet to shift the department, causing the More


  • South Asia

Antony visits Siachen, Advanced Landing Ground

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Leh, June 22: A K Antony today became the first Defence Minister to land at the Nyoma Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) near the Line of Actual Control during his maiden visit to Siachen glacier Antony More


  • Business

CM calls for joint efforts to promote tourism

Asks tourism deptt, cultural academy to formulate calendar of events

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 22: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday directed the Cultural Academy and Tourism department to jointly formulate a calendar of cultural events to be organized at various tourist places More


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