Dr Farooq, others pay tributes to Ittoo

GK News Network

Srinagar, Mar 18: National Conference president and union minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah today paid glowing tributes to the former assembly speaker and slain party leader Wali Muhammad Ittoo on his 16th death anniversary. Dr Farooq, according to NC statement, said Muhammad Ittoo lived a graceful More

Kashmir condoles Indian envoy’s demise

GK News Network

Srinagar, Mar 18: India’s ambassador to Italy Arif S Khan, who passed away in Rome Wednesday, had a strong Kashmir connection. Khan, 58, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of 1975 batch, was married to a Kashmiri woman, Farida. He is survived by his wife and two sons.A union secretary level More

Congress–NC row over hoardings in Rajouri

SHAFIQ MIR

Rajouri, Mar 18: The controversy erupted between the coalition partners of Jammu and Kashmir government, National Conference and Congress on Wednesday in border district Rajouri over the hoardings and publicity posters published by health department under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in connection More

Uproar in PaK LA

‘We are not RAW agents’

ROSHAN MUGHAL

Muzaffarabad: Mar 18: The Legislative Assembly of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) witnessed noisy scenes on Thursday after the former speaker Choudhary Abdul Majeed accused present dispensation led by Raja Farooq Hadier of following the foot steps of Maharaja Hari Singh and former Pakistan president More

Mian Qayoom denied passport

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 18: The President High Court Bar Association, Mian Abdul Qayoom, has said he received a letter from Passport officer on Thursday which mentions that he has been denied the travelling documents.  Quoting the letter, Qayoom said the PO had written that “I (Qayoom) had applied More

No surgical strike inside Pak: India

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, Mar 18: India on Thursday ruled out any surgical strike on militant camps inside Pakistan, but asserted steps would be taken to protect its interests. “No, no,” Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju, told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar at the Institute of Defence More

‘4.4 % Kashmiris suffer from kidney failures’

ARSHAD M BHAT

Srinagar, Mar 18: Expressing concern over the manifold increase in kidney disorders, the experts today revealed that 4.4 per cent Kashmiris were suffering from kidney failures.  “During our survey, we found one out of every 23 persons suffering from chronic renal diseases (kidney failures More

Family seeks release, CM’s intervention

YOUTH’S DETENTION IN GUJARAT

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 18: The family and relatives of Kashmiri youth, arrested by Gujarat police on Sunday, today protested here and demanded his immediate release. The family has sought chief minister, Omar Abdullah’s intervention in the matter. They said Bashir Ahmad Baba, 32, son of Ghulam Nabi More

IPTK presents ‘Buried Evidence’ at UNHRC

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 18: “Buried Evidence”, a report on unknown, unmarked, and mass graves in Kashmir by the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice, was presented at a sidebar event during the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 13th Regular Session in Geneva on Wednesday.  More

Filmmakers, artists felicitate Jailkhani

GK News Network

Srinagar, Mar 18: The Jammu Kashmir Film Makers and Artists Cooperative Ltd has expressed happiness over the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s decision to award prestigious Britendu Harish Chandra Award to the Kashmiri born broadcaster Ashok JialKhani, deputy director general Doordarshan More

  • City

‘Mafia’ aims to grab houseboat counter at Srinagar International Airport

M HYDERI

Tourism players worried; Govt suspects official-tout nexus, seeks action from Union aviation ministry.Srinagar, Mar 18: For years, Srinagar International Airport has been a key place to attract incoming More




  • Jammu

CM asks V-Cs to finalise project reports

SETTING UP OF OFF-SITE CAMPUSES

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 18: The chief minister, Omar Abdullah, has asked the vice-chancellors of Kashmir University and Jammu University to finalise the project reports for the establishment of the off-site Campuses More



  • News

Dr Farooq, others pay tributes to Ittoo

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 18: National Conference president and union minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah today paid glowing tributes to the former assembly speaker and slain party leader Wali Muhammad Ittoo on his 16th More



  • GK Business

Cross-LoC business touches Rs 10 cr

Trade to remain suspended next week on account of Jashn-e-Pakistan

RABIA NOOR

Srinagar, Mar 18: For the first time in its history, the cross-LoC trade in the Valley this week reached Rs 10 crore mark.  “This is for the first time that cross-LoC trade on Salamabad-Chakoti route More



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