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Omar wants separatists on board for K-solution

BACK CHANNEL EFFORTS ON

JAVAID MALIK

Srinagar, May 23: The Jammu and Kashmir government is trying through back channels  to persuade separatist leadership to hold talks with New Delhi to draw a roadmap for the resolution of the Kashmir issue, sources told Greater Kashmir on Sunday. They said the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah More

SOPUR TRADERS FEDERATION PRESIDENT SHOT DEAD

GHULAM MUHAMMAD

Sopur, May 23: Unidentified gunmen shot dead the President of Sopur Traders Federation here, 50 kms north of Srinagar, police said on Sunday. “Gunmen fired upon Ghulam Nabi Khan, 52, from a close range when he was on way to Ambragad where he owned an ice-cream factory. Khan received three More

BARBARIC ACT: OMAR

Sagar, Lone,Wani Visit Khan’s Residence

GK News Network

 Srinagar, May 23: The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Sunday condemned the killing of the president, Sopur Beopar Mandal, Ghulam Nabi Khan, describing it as a “barbaric act.” Omar said Khan was a popular businessman and a sincere human being. “He will be remembered for his great contribution More

Won’t expedite Afzal’s hanging: Pillai

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 23: The Home Secretary G K Pillai on Sunday said the government had no plans to jump the queue on the clemency petition of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru or fast track the decision on his execution.  “Afzal Guru is in the queue (of mercy petitions in the president’s office More

Sonia to visit JK on May 29

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, May 23: The Chairperson of United Progressive Alliance and Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, would be visiting Jammu and Kashmir on May 29. “She will be on a one day visit,” a Congress spokesperson said. He said she would first inaugurate multi-crore Gurjjar Centre for Culture and More



  • Perspective

Move out of Snare

Time to think afresh and take lessons from history

PUNCHLINE BY Z. G. MUHAMMAD

‘Kashmir Struggle and schism are made for each other.’ I had started my column with this pithy sentence some eight years back.  Inspiration for this sentence, which I believe sums up the seventy nine More


  • Op-Ed

IAS scores over MBBS

DEBATE

AS BUREAUCRACY TRIUMPHS, HAS MEDICAL SCIENCE EXPERIENCED A TRAGEDY, WRITES DR.JAVID IQBAL

I might be a lone voice, but I have sufficient reasons to register my protest at the media hype over Dr.Faesel (I.A.S) divorcing medicine (M.B.B.S) though I too join others in congratulating a fellow professional More



  • Letters

Providing backward status to villages is just unfortunate!

This refers to the government’s recent decision of providing backward status to a number of villages in the state. It is really surprising to see that in this technology-driven age we are not moving on More


  • Editorial

Drug consumes them

The seizure of 11131.67 kilogram of various contraband including 168.775 kg of Charas, 01.390 kg of Opium and 10961.505 kg of other derivatives by police during the last year is just the proverbial tip More


  • Kashmir

KU library is India’s first ISO certified

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 23: The Allama Iqbal Library at the University of Kashmir has become the first university library in India to be registered and certified with ISO 9001:2008 standards for its “quality management More


  • Srinagar City

All is not well at pool, snooker parlours

Play alongside betting, smoking, eve-teasing,boozing… irks residents

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, May 23: Shouting and hooting, a group of youth make merry outside a snooker-n-pool parlour in plush Raj Bagh –prompting some of the inhabitants to peep out of their windows. The youth are enjoying More



  • Jammu

MYSTERY SHROUDS KASHMIRI STUDENT'S ‘DISAPPEARANCE’

POLICE CLUELESS, FAMILY SEEKS CM’S INTERVENTION

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, May 23: With police failing to trace the Kashmiri student who went missing here on May 14, the family has sought the chief minister, Omar Abdullah’s intervention. An MBBS student at the Acharya More


  • GK Business

In distt Bandipora,dev still a far cry

TARIQ RASOOL

Bandipora, May 23: Conferred district status two years back, Bandipora woefully lacks in wherewithal essential for a town, much less a district. Attaining district status, according to the locals here More



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