• TOP STORIES

UJC ready to talk, sets conditions

'Laying Down Arms Should Not Be A Precondition'

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 25: Day after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh made a conditional offer of talks to the separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, the militant conglomerate United Jehad Council, in a significant move, while expressing willingness to join the parleys for resolution of Kashmir issue set its own More

3 pm deadline for flight operation

It’s Affecting Tourism: Govt; ATC Not In Our Control: AAI

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, May 25: Exclusively for the Srinagar “International” Airport, the Indian Air Force has put a deadline of 3 pm for landing and take-off by all the commercial aircrafts, causing huge inconvenience to passengers, pilots and airlines equally.Sources said for the past many months, the IAF More

AI FLIGHTS GROUNDED

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 25: Three flights of the Air India were grounded at the Srinagar ‘International’ Airport on Monday following “abrupt” flash strike by its crew members and maintenance engineers.Sources said two passenger flights and an Army chartered flight were suddenly grounded after the engineers More

Nayeem Khan released

Calls For Meaningful Dialogue On Kashmir

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, May 25: The National Front chairman Nayeem Ahmad Khan Tuesday gave slip to sleuths of the Counter Insurgency Kashmir, barely few minutes after he was released on Court directives from Central Jail here.Sources said two sleuths of CIK stopped Nayeem in the jail premises to arrest him More

Overcoming Indo-Pak trust deficit to take time: US

AGENCIES

Washington, May 25: The United States has said that it supports the efforts of Indian and Pakistani leaders to improve bilateral ties even as it acknowledged that it would take time to overcome the trust deficit between the two neighbours.“I think you left out the punch line that here was a pledge More



  • Perspective

Time to think

Two decades after Hurriyat needs to re-invent itself to stay relevant

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

The two anniversary rallies held by Hurriyat Conference last week had a certain watershed value in the politics of Kashmir. For they not only in many ways capped the twenty years of separatist struggle More


  • Op-Ed

Those rare moments of history

HISTORY

THE BOOK DEMOLISHES SOME MYTHS AND OFFERS A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON A CRUCIAL ASPECT OF KASHMIR HISTORY, REVIEWS AARZOO KHAN

BOOK REVIEW Book -  “Islam in Kashmir”-  (14th to 16th Century); Author: Prof. Muhammad Ashraf WaniPublisher: Oriental Publishing House     The Holy Quran assures the Muslims More



  • Letters

Biodiversity issues – some genuine concerns

This refers to 22nd May celebrated as the International day for Biological Diversity. Actually the United Nations proclaimed May 22 as “The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB)” to increase More


  • Editorial

By way of talks

Manmohan Singh’s mention of Kashmir in his 70 minute long press conference became the news of day, and rightly so. After all when a Prime Minister of a country appears before press and talks at length More


  • Kashmir

NC-led coalition legalizing corruption: PDP

GK NEWS NETWORK

Tral, May 25: The President of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba Mufti, on Tuesday accused National Conference led coalition government of “legalizing corruption.”    “The government More


  • Srinagar City

City sanitation outsourcing starts

IN 1ST PHASE, TENDERS FLOATED FOR 13 OUT OF 68 WARDS

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, May 25: The government has floated tenders to outsource sanitation of the summer capital “in phased manner” following a Urban Development Ministry report rating Srinagar as fourth dirtiest City More



  • Jammu

Mercury shoots to 45.50C in Jammu

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, May 25: The temperature in Jammu city was recorded 6 degree above normal on Tuesday as mercury touched 45.5 degree Celsius, highest ever in the past eight years. While the sudden increase in More


  • South Asia

Indo-Pak Water Commissioners meet on May 31

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 25: Pakistan is all set to raise with India the issue of two Hydel power projects being constructed in Jammu and Kashmir.The issue would be raised during the meeting of Indus Water Commissioners More


  • GK Business

Govt tries to rope in industry biggies to invest in Valley

‘Local Entrepreneurs Always A Priority’

NAZIA AKHTAR

Srinagar, May 25: Terming the atmosphere in the Valley quite conducive for investment, minister for industries and commerce S S Salathia today said the government was persuading various outside industrialists More



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