EID FEVER GRIPS SRINAGAR

Markets witness huge rush, people on shopping spree

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Nov 14: Markets are teeming with the shoppers. Pavements are full of street vendors on a stretch. Traffic jams at major intersections. Pedestrians and commuters troubled by the chaos.  As the days ahead of Eid ul Azha, which falls on November 17, inch towards normalcy the shopping is More

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Crackdown on profiteers

122 SHOPKEEPERS HELD

Srinagar, Nov 14: Launching a massive crackdown on profiteers in the run up to Eid, the authorities have arrested 122 shopkeepers in Budgam district alone.  Special teams were formed by Budgam police and Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department (CAPD) to conduct raids on black marketers More

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Eye injury victim awaits treatment

‘We have no money to shift him to PGI Chandigarh’

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Nov 14: Family members of a teenage boy hit by a pellet in his right eye last month in this north Kashmir town are finding it hard to get him treated as they are unable to afford it.   A pellet fired by forces hit Aqib Usman, 18, in old town Baramulla on October 8. He was More

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Geelani castigates writers

‘Come forward for a debate’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 14: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Sunday said that he was ready to hold open debate on the ongoing “Quit Kashmir  Movement.”  “Our movement is well planned and everything has positive as well negative sides, but to achieve something, we More

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Govt moots to restrict winter vacation for 1 month

Srinagar, Nov 14: The Education Minister, Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed today said the Government was considering to restrict the winter vacation of students from class 9th to 12th to one month so that they get benefited. Peerzada said this while distributing free text books among the students of More

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Devotees participate in prayers at Bulbul Shah (RA) shrine

Srinagar, Nov 14: As per the old traditions of Kashmir, the Khatmaat-Muazmaat were offered from Fajr prayers at the shrine of Hazrat Bulbul Shah (RA) at Bulbul Lankar, Nawa Kadal on 7th of Zilhajj here on Sunday. Large number of devotees participated in the prayers and the Ulemas offered their More

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Siblings found dead

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Nov 14: Police on Sunday said that it recovered bodies of two siblings from Sangri forests here in north Kashmir.   The deceased were identified as Altaf Hussain and Abid Ahmad sons of Muhammad Hussain Khan of Sangri. “The duo had gone to the forest along with two More

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Police holds seminar on national integrity

Baramulla, Nov 14: To promote police-public relations, J&K Police IR-10th Bn in collaboration with several educational institutions organised a seminar “National Integrity and Communal Harmony” at Parihaspora Pattan here on Saturday. According to an official communiqué, the event was presided More

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India, Pak, JK people principle parties to K issue: ANC

Srinagar, Nov 14: The Awami National Conference today said no respectable solution to the Kashmir issue could be reached unless all the three principle parties-India, Pakistan and people of J&K come on a single table. In a statement, ANC said, “We as the principal sufferers of this dispute More

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