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Manmohan on mission Kashmir

Visiting JK On June 7, Revival Of Internal Dialogue On Agenda

GK NEWS NETWORK/PTI

New Delhi, May 18: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir from June seven during which he is expected to renew the offer for talks with separatists and review the progress on the Round Table peace initiative.Official sources said Tuesday that the Prime Minister More

Mufti meets PM

Calls For Concrete Steps For Kashmir Resolution

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 18: Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed has urged the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to initiate concrete and visible steps to revive the peace process for final resolution of the Kashmir issue.In a meeting between the two leaders in New Delhi Tuesday, they More

JHELUM SWELLS, ALERT SOUNDED

Weather May Improve Today

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, May 18: With continuous rains lashing the Valley for the past few days, the water level in the river Jhelum and other rivulets has considerably increased even as the Flood Control and Irrigation department has sounded a flood alert. The Meteorological department has predicted improvement More

Bridges,roads washed away in Kupwara, Bandipora

Madhumati Breaches Banks

SHAHID RAFIQ/TARIQ RASOOL

Kupwara/ Bandipora, May 18: Flood situation worsened today in north Kashmir as swollen streams washed away several bridges and roads cutting off scores of villages in Kupwara and Bandipora districts and affecting normal life.Official sources said that more than 50 villages in Kupwara were under More

Respect coalition Dharma; Cong to NC

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 18: Cautioning Chief Minister Omar Abdullah against the activities of some elements trying to weaken the coalition government, senior Congress leader and MLC Abdul Gani Vakil Tuesday said “the illogical utterances of certain National Conference (NC) leaders over its alliance with Congress More



  • Perspective

O Srinagar

Dirt apart, Srinagar also battles a marauding land mafia

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

Last month one of my friends teaching in a US university asked for the photographs of Srinagar city for an academic exercise. However, what he saw stunned him into disbelief. An aerial snap of the heaving More


  • Op-Ed

Garbage management and traffic chaos

The twin trouble

THE TWO MONSTERS HAVE TURNED THE WHOLE CITY HELLISHLY UNBEARABLE. ONCE TACKLED, WE WILL EXPERIENCE A CHANGE FOR BETTER, COMMENTS FIDA IQBAL

A few days back one of my learned friends, a budding bureaucrat, asked a very straight question. What are two grave issues faced by the people of Kashmir (Srinagar to be precise) at present? Within a second More



  • Letters

Car finance: please stop it to avoid further traffic mess

This refers to the statement by Chairman J&K Bank Dr Haseeb Drabu that the bank is the best among profit-makers in state. Truly so, JK Bank is growing fast. But one important aspect of banking is to More


  • Editorial

Monitoring Markets

In a routine administrative functioning it is no news that some Government department heads off a violator of law and saves people from being adversely impacted by the violation. It happens as a normal More


  • Kashmir

AI TEAM MEETS MIRWAIZ, MALIK ,ORS

ZULFIKAR MAJID

Srinagar, May 18: The 2-member Amnesty International team, which is on a six-day Kashmir visit,  on Tuesday called on Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation More


  • Srinagar City

Babus, Mantris leave Secretariat for lunch, disrupt traffic!

M HYDERI

As if twice-a-day inconvenience for the common man due to Durbar move traffic restrictions wasn’t enough that Babus and the Mantris have started zooming out of the Civil Secretariat midday just to relish More



  • GK Business

Valley traders still await phone link to PaK

RABIA NOOR

Srinagar, May 16: Even as over two months have elapsed since finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather assured a direct phone link across LoC would be resumed to promote trans-LoC trade, the facility is yet More



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