• TOP STORIES

23 officers shifted

Tanveer Posted As Secretary HE, Dulloo Comm/Secy Tourism

GK NEWS NETWORK

Cabinet DecisionsSrinagar, May 12: The state cabinet Wednesday approved posting of Pramod Kumar Jain as the Financial Commissioner, Revenue, relieving RK Jerath, Principal Secretary, Health and Medical Education of the additional charge.KB Agarwal, awaiting orders of posting More

Omar calls on Soz

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 12: Ahead of the state cabinet meeting this evening, the chief minister Omar Abdullah is learnt to have dropped at the Humhama residence of the state Congress president, Prof Saif-ud-din Soz to ensure support from the coalition partner, Congress, over the decisions to be made in the cabinet More

Timber rates revised, Degree College for Sumbal

No Decision On Employees’ Demands

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, May 12: People in Jammu and Kashmir would have to cough up more money for timber purchase for construction purposes as the state cabinet on Wednesday approved enhancement in timber rates. However, there was no decision on the employees’ demands, withdrawal of ESMA and the proposed transfer More

Embarrassed, Govt to outsource sanitation

Rating A Matter Of Concern, Will Consult MLAs: Dy CM

FAHEEM ASLAM

STINKING SRINAGARSrinagar, May 12: With the Union Ministry of Urban Development rating Srinagar as the fourth dirtiest city in India, the Jammu and Kashmir government, which cut a sorry-figure, is likely to outsource the sanitation of the summer capital.The Deputy Chief More

SMC headless

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 12: The Srinagar Municipal Corporation, responsible for maintaining the sanitation of the summer capital, is virtually headless and defunct in the absence of a full-fledged commissioner.The charge of the commissioner SMC is, since March 2010, with the district development commissioner More



  • Perspective

The Piece Dialogue

Why the thread of Indo-Pak ties snaps with a slight rustle in the air

INKSIGHT BY BY MEHMOOD-UR-RASHID

After that break in Bhutan, India and Pakistan have once more pushed off on the path to dialogue. Before Bhutan the two neighbors saw each other at the Egyptian city Sharm el Sheikh, last year in July More


  • Op-Ed

Is medical profession becoming a sunset career -?

DEBATE

The commonest question asked to candidates entering the medical profession was ,”Why I chose to become a Doctor? “and the commonest answer used to be “I want to serve the humanity.” This was four decades More



  • Letters

Dirtiest city: why should the rating surprise us?

 This refers to the news titled “Srinagar—4th dirtiest city” (GK, May 12). Thanks to the sanitation survey conducted by the Union Ministry for Urban Development. It is really a matter of concern for More


  • Editorial

The New Beginning?

After a shaky start, India and Pakistan are finally engaging on a serious note. Foreign Minister S M  Krishna is traveling to Pakistan in mid-July to hold talks with his counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi More


  • Kashmir

Omar asks SKIMS to advertise Director’s post

DANISH NABI

Srinagar, May 12: The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, on Wednesday asked the management of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura to advertise its director’s post at national level. & More


  • Srinagar City

Mehran disappearance, police failure turns 2

M HYDERI

Srinagar, May 12: May 13, 2008 afternoon three-year-old Shahr-e-Khaas boy Mehran Latief Mir left his home to buy candies from a nearby shop but never returned. Has he been abducted, killed or is alive More



  • Jammu

‘Preserve state’s natural resources’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Poonch, May 12:  The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, has underscored the importance of eco-tourism for conservation and protection of state’s natural resorts and green wealth. “Tourist infrastructure More


  • South Asia

120-yr-old woman applies for Hajj

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jaipur, May 12: Despite the vagaries of old age, the call of the divine proved irresistible for 120-year-old Munni Begum, who has filed an application with the Rajasthan Haj Welfare Society to go on the More


  • GK Business

Electricity plays hike and seek in Industrial estates

Unit holders incur losses worth lakhs of rupees

RABIA NOOR

Srinagar, May 12: Government claims on promoting industry not withstanding, most of the industrial estates in the Valley are facing unscheduled power cuts resulting in losses worth lakhs of rupees to the More



ADD
Designed Developed and Maintaned By Imobisoft Ltd /Algosol Software Solutions