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2 more killed, 9-yr old among victims

60 Hurt In Police Action On Protesters

UMAR MAQBOOL DAR/ GHULAM MUHAMMAD/ALTAF BABA

Sopur/Varmul, June 28: Two persons, including a nine-year old boy, were killed and 60 civilians wounded in north Kashmir’s Varmul district Monday when paramilitary CRPF troopers and police fired upon processionists to prevent them from marching towards Sopur town on the call of pro-freedom groups More

GoI gives clean chit to CRPF

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 28: Giving a clean chit to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the central government on Monday said "unruly mobs" were behind the violence in the Kashmir Valley and asserted that the government would not cow down to the separatists' tactics.Union home secretary G K Pillai More

PROTESTS ERUPT ACROSS KASHMIR

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, June 28: Hundreds of people took out a protest march from the old city here towards Sopur on Monday on the call of both factions of Hurriyat Conference even as protests erupted across the Valley as police and paramilitary foiled marches from various districts and towns. At least two dozen More

Govt may seek army help

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 28: The Jammu and Kashmir government Monday said that it may have to call the army to defuse the law and order situation in the Valley.“Army may be taken to defuse the tense situation in Sopur and Varmul if the circumstances warranted,” Public Health Engineering Minister and senior More

2010: YEAR OF TEENAGE KILLINGS

Out Of 12, 9 Fell To CRPF Bullets

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, June 28: In a dangerous pattern, 12 persons, mostly teenagers, were killed since January this year in disproportionate use of force mainly by paramilitary CRPF troopers while maintaining “law and order.”Out of 12, the CRPF have killed 9 persons in indiscriminate firing while quelling More

Mirwaiz Umar announces ‘civil disobedience’

Asks People To Come Out On Streets And Protest

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 28: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Monday appealed people to come out of their homes on Tuesday, assemble at centrally located places of their areas and stage peaceful protests against killing of innocents as a first step towards civil disobedience.“The state More

Kashmir Bandh till Wednesday: Hurriyat (G)

Eidgah Chalo on Friday

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 28: Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Geelani has called for a shutdown till Wednesday.As per the programme, supported by Dukhtaran-e-Millat and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, a two-day Kashmir bandh shall be observed starting Tuesday. Women shall assemble and protest at More

Kashmir losing count of its dead: Mehbooba

‘Omar Presiding Over JK’s Destruction’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 28: Expressing deep anguish, over what it termed the unabated cold-blooded killing of young men, Peoples Democratic Party has said Kashmir was unable to keep count of its dead under the present dispensation.“Omar Abdullah, it seems has descended on the state as a modern day Nero More



  • Opinion

26/11 syndrome

Now is the time to move beyond Mumbai

IMPRESSIONS BY UDAY SHANKER

 26/11 is stuck as a bone in throat  in India- Pakistan relations. The world has changed, but Delhi and Islamabad have not.  Despite  several opportunities  to look beyond the More


  • Op-Ed

SKICC Seminar – a damp squib

PROF.M.A.SOFI COMMENTS ON THE SEMINAR ON THE BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJEE HELD ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF SRINAGAR ON JUNE 23, 2010

One might argue that considerations of individual liberty and freedom of speech guaranteed by the constitution of India as a fundamental right to the citizens of this country should raise no hackles on More



  • Letters

Dr. Zakir Naik is carrying on a great mission

This refers to the article Zia to Zakir by Mehmood Ur Rashid in which  he has criticized Mr. Zakir Naik without giving any concrete reason. Let me remind you that Islamic dawah is obligatory for every More


  • Editorial

Remove CRPF

The statement by Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs is significant and perhaps presages some important political developments in the state. In a late night, hurriedly called press conference on More


  • Kashmir

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT:Thousands march on Srinagar-Varmul highway

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: PROTESTERS

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, June 28: On Monday the scene on the Srinagar-Varmul highway was reminiscent of the 2008 Amarnath land row uprising. People in hundreds, especially youth, were seen moving towards Sopur, peacefully More


  • Srinagar City

Srinagarites take to streets with belongings

Masjid loudspeakers air Azadi slogans

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, June 28: Amid surging protests against continued killing of youth in the Valley allegedly by police and paramilitary troopers, the Masjid loudspeakers Monday resounded with pro-freedom slogans More



  • Jammu

Fire at Vaishnodevi hills

Jammu, June 28: Fire today erupted in Trikuta hills where housing the cave shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi is located in Jammu and Kashmir but pilgrimage to the shrine was not affected, police officials said More


  • South Asia

JKLF activists stage protests in Pak

GK NEWS NETWORK

 Islamabad, June 28: Activists of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) staged a massive protest against the recent killings in the Kashmir Valley. Scores of JKLF activists, led by Ghulam More


  • Business

Transplantation affected for want of irrigation in Bandipora

TARIQ RASOOL

Bandipora, June 28: Hundreds of farmers have failed to transplant paddy into their fields due to absence of irrigation facility here. Farmers alleged that a canal which is only source of irrigation More



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