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PM begins Kashmir visit today

Security Tightened, UAVs Deployed For Reconnaissance

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 6: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be on a two-day visit to Kashmir from Monday during which he is expected to renew the offer for talks with separatists and review the progress in the Round Table peace initiative and development work being undertaken in the state. Official More

EMISSARY MEETS SEPARATISTS

ZULFIKAR MAJID

Srinagar, June 6: Ahead of Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir, former member of the erstwhile Kashmir Committee, Ashok Bhan called on several separatist leaders over the past one week, sources told Greater Kashmir.They said Bhan had separate meetings with Hurriyat Conference More

Army warns of suicide attack

Want PM’s Function Venue At Cantonment

SUMIR KAUL

INTERCEPTS UNSUBSTANTIATED: POLICE Srinagar, June 6: Army has sent messages warning of a suicide attack during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir but these have been found to be unsubstantiated by the state police and central security agencies.The More

HR violators won’t be spared

CM CHAIRS UHQ MEET

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 6: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Sunday reiterated his Government’s commitment to zero tolerance against human rights violations. “The violators of HR will not be allowed to go scot-free”, he asserted. Chairing the Unified Headquarters meeting here, the Chief Minister took More

PMRP progress slow

4 yrs On, 75% Money Unspent

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, June 6: Launched with much fanfare in 2004-05, the Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Program (PMRP) is proving damp squib in Jammu and Kashmir with only Rs 8,000 crore having been spent out of the program worth Rs 31,000 crore.  Sources told Greater Kashmir that an expenditure of More



  • Opinion

The Nuclear politics

HORIZONS

SMART AND EXTENSIVE DIPLOMACY SEEMS THE ONLY WAY IRAN COULD RETAIN THE RIGHT TO PEACEFUL USE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY. MAKING PROVOCATIVE STATEMENTS WILL DO THE DAMAGE WRITES RASHID RAINA

Ever since the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, many people have wondered about nuclear weapons and the risk they pose to the world. A host of countries have nuclear weapons, and the threat More


  • Op-Ed

An Opportunity not to be Missed

MIDDLE EAST

A PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP THAT ACKNOWLEDGES THE IMMEDIATE CIRCUMSTANCES AND NEEDS OF ITS PEOPLE, AND THE LONG-TERM INTERESTS OF THE PALESTINIAN NATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED, WRITES MUHAMMAD JUNAID

The worldwide condemnation following Israeli raid of the Gaza aid flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, and the consequent deaths of nine activists, has once again highlighted the increased political isolation More



  • Letters

Hajis must be well guided on all fronts

This refers  to the letter by Muhammed Subhan  (GK, 04-06-2010). The concern expressed by him is genuine, particularly for a first time Hajji, and also in view of mushroom growth of Tour and More


  • Editorial

Foul play

Early Saturday All India Radio broadcast news that while most parts of the country were seething under intense heat, Kashmir valley is all cool and there are places in the valley which are experiencing More


  • Kashmir

METHANE EMITS FROM WULAR

It’s usual biological process: Dr Romshoo

TARIQ RASOOL

Bandipora, June 6: A non-governmental organization has observed methane gas bubbles in Wular Lake here, 70 kms north of Srinagar.A team of engineers associated with Kashmir Social and Environment Protection More


  • Srinagar City

Passenger Sumos crave for stand

Authorities issued permits, forgot allotting stands to over 5000 cabs in summer capital

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, June 6: The authorities have failed to allot stands for the passenger Tata Sumo cabs operating from the City–irking travellers and the drivers alike –even as the vehicular traffic movement gets More



  • Jammu

Kheer Bhawani tenements develop cracks

FIRDOUS TAK

Jammu, June 6: The Jammu and Kashmir Project Construction Corporation (JKPCC) has sought Rs 15 lakh from the state government to repair the tenements constructed by it at Kheer Bhawni  in Srinagar More


  • South Asia

Pak clashes: 25 killed in Khyber

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Peshawar, Jun 6 : Twenty-five people have died in fierce clashes between the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam militant groups in the restive Khyber tribal region in northwest Pakistan, sources said today.  More


  • Business

Fish production declines in Wular lake

*Total catch dips from 10,544- to 1476-MTs * Experts blame massive constructions, encroachments, army camps for creating pollution

TARIQ RASOOL

Bandipora, June 6: Once famous for fish production, Asia’s largest freshwater lake, the Wular is fast losing this resource, courtesy the increasing scale of pollution due to mushroom growth of residential More


  • World

FLOTILLA ATTACK

Israel to deport 19 passengers, crew

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jerusalem, June 6: Israel will deport all 19 passengers and crew onboard the Rachel Corrie aid ship intercepted by its Navy while trying to breach the country’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. The aid More



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