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House to debate district job bill

Kupwara Legislators protest

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 30: The Speaker Muhammad Akbar Lone, Monday said the bill to ban inter-district recruitments will be tabled in the assembly during the ongoing budget session “to seek the viewpoint of all the shades of opinion.”The House once again witnessed uproarious scenes over the non-tabling of More

Adhocees’ regularisation bill tabled in LA

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 30: The much-awaited Bill seeking regularisation of adhoc, contractual and consolidated employees serving in various departments of the state government was introduced in the state Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.The legislation, Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service (Special Provision) Bill More

PDP stays away from assembly

Boycotts LC Proceedings Too

SYED AMJAD SHAH

BUDGET SESSION-2010Jammu, Mar 30: The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tuesday boycotted the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly as was announced by the party after staging walkout from the House on Monday.The House continued its proceedings in the absence More

CM making use of latest technology: NC

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 30: Amid the opposition PDP’s allegations that the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was spending time on his Blackberry cellphone in the Assembly, a group of ruling National Conference members from the Legislative Council Tuesday strongly came in defence of the Chief Minister saying that he was More

‘Opposition should return to House’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 30: As opposition PDP on Tuesday boycotted the proceedings of the legislative assembly, Speaker Muhammad Akbar Lone made repeated pleas to the party legislators to rethink over the decision and rejoin the proceedings.“PDP legislatures should return to the house and raise issues of public More



  • Perspective

A mess called Khurriyat

Separatist politics in Valley is precariously placed

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

In the recent weeks, separatist politics in Kashmir has gone through a profound shift. It is no longer moderate Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq only who dominates the separatist discourse in the More


  • Op-Ed

Who talks to whom?

DIALOGUE

IF INDIA AND PAKISTAN NEGOTIATE WHERE DO KASHMIRIS FIND THEIR PLACE. HAS KASHMIRI LEADERSHIP REALLY BEEN ABLE TO STRENGTHEN THE INSTITUTION OF DIALOGUE, WRITES ZULFIKAR MAJID

It's Kashmir dispute once again hogging the limelight at global level and the dialogue process yet again becoming a buzzword. Given the longstanding nature of the dispute, the series of wars fought over More



  • Letters

Of Palladium deal and Lal Chowk beautification

This refers to the two news items and the editorial in Greater Kashmir (March 23 and March 24) regarding the Palladium Cinema site. The news items have caused the apprehensions among the general public More


  • Editorial

House in disorder

The J&K State Assembly is drifting away from its avowed and duty bound functions, thanks to the behaviour of its members. The way ‘representatives’ of people are behaving themselves has diminished More


  • Kashmir

Father’s statement recorded

WAMIQ FAROOQ KILLING

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Mar 30: A local court here on Tuesday recorded the statement of Farooq Ahmad Wani, father of Wamiq Farooq-who died after being hit by police teargas shell on January 31. Farooq Ahmad Wani More


  • Srinagar City

LAWDA’s tryst with experimentations

Testing latest technology to tame Algal blooms

ARIF SHAFI WANI

DAL RESTORATIONSrinagar, Mar 30: In a bid to check blooming of harmful Algal blooms, a cause of Dal lake’s deterioration, the authorities have started experiments using the latest electronic gadgets. & More



  • Jammu

BJP, Panthers corner govt over Employment Policy

Dissatisfied with Minister’s reply, members stage walkout

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 30: The opposition members from BJP and the National Panthers Party  Tuesday staged walk out from the Legislative Assembly to express their dissatisfaction with the recently announced employment More


  • South Asia

'JK returning to normalcy'

SHEIKH AHMED

New Delhi, Mar 30: The Centre has said that all parameters of proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir were at an all time low and the current situation indicated a shift towards normalcy and peace, reveals the More


  • GK Business

Proposed drug policy raises eyebrows

RABIA NOOR

* ‘It will divest Valley-based pharmaceutical units of their business’ * ‘Will discourage investments in health sector’Srinagar, Mar 30: Government’s new proposed drug policy has come in More


  • World

BIG BANG test successful: CERN

AGENCIES

Geneva, Mar 30: The world's largest atom smasher has set a record for high-energy collisions by crashing two proton beams at three times more force than ever before in their attempt to create mini-versions More



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