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Curfew foils Hurriyat march

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Oct 12: The government Tuesday imposed curfew across Kashmir Valley to foil the march called by Hurriyat Conference (G), spearheading the ongoing agitation.The Hurriyat (G) general secretary Masrat Aalam had called for a march towards Hurriyat Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s residence More

MLA tastes police Danda

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Oct 12: In a rare incident of its kind, a legislator of the ruling National Conference had to Tuesday bear the brunt of curfew and police for “defying” the stringent restrictions at Lal Bazar here.Reports said police “beat” the legislator from Zadibal constituency, Peer Afaq, after he More

Who grounded new varsities?

Such Institutions Would Fuel Divisive Tendencies: Soz

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Oct 12: Day after the Upper House of the state legislature referred the bills for setting up the Transworld Muslim University and two other varsities to Joint-Select Committee for a review, the Congress Tuesday said the proposed legislations had “far-reaching divisive implications” and could More

Palhallan under relentless curfew for 29 days

‘Civilians On Verge Of Starvation’

IRSHAD AHMED

Palhallan, Oct 12: Welcome to this village of Pattan tehsil in north Kashmir district of Varmul. For past 29 days, life has come to a standstill here with government imposing strict curfew with the village remaining out of bounds for rest of the world.With deserted streets, damaged houses and More

India, Pak clash at UNGA

Kashmir In UN

*JK People Regularly Express Their Will Through Free, Fair Polls: Delhi *Electoral Exercise Not A Substitute To Plebiscite: Islamabad

BETWA SHARMA/PTIUnited Nations, Oct 12: India and Pakistan again clashed over the Kashmir issue on Monday during the ongoing UN General Assembly session.Speaking in the General Assembly’s Decolonisation Committee, Congress MP Charan Das Mahant asserted that Kashmir was More

Want result-oriented talks: Qureshi

Islamabad, Oct 12: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said that Pakistan wanted to have a meaningful dialogue with India with regard to the Kashmir issue. “The Kashmir issue needs progress rather than review,” he said.Speaking to media representatives after chairing a meeting of More

JK passing through difficult phase: Govt

Salathia Gives Land Allotment Letters To Entrepreneurs

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Oct 12: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Tuesday said that state was going through a difficult phase which has badly hit the industry particularly in Kashmir.“The 20 years of turmoil had created lot of problems for industry. However the government was putting its efforts to bring More

Will Mughal Road ever be a reality?

Govt Fails To Meet Oct 2010 Deadline; HCC Cites ‘Unrest’

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Oct 12: The Jammu and Kashmir government is all set to miss the 2010 deadline for completion of the historical Mughal Road—connecting Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu with the Kashmir Valley—in the wake of its failure to execute the requisite works in time.While the officials cite More



  • Opinion

As Obama arrives

By the way will he do the magic for us?

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

KASHMIR these days is wrapped up in a unique Waiting for Godot moment, over and above the larger 'Godot wait' that our pursuit of Azadi has become. And this moment is the wait for US president Barack Obama More


  • Op-Ed

The Great Indian Fiction on Kashmir

VIEWPOINT

FROM CARTOGRAPHIC EXAGGERATION TO DENIAL OF HISTORY, INDIA IS CREATING AN ELABORATE HOAX TO REPUDIATE DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS OF KASHMIRIS, COMMENTS MURTAZA SHIBLI

SINCE January 2009 The Economist has been banned or censored in 12 countries including Saudi Arabia, Libya and China. India is the ‘only democracy on the list’; having censored 31 issues of the weekly More



  • Letters

Mental health concerns us all

 This refers to the news titled “World Mental Health Day” (GK Oct 10). Indeed awareness is needed for mental health issues but it is lacking. We as mental health experts have more responsibility. More


  • Editorial

Banality of evil

THE death of Umar Qayoom, a boy of seventeen, hailing from the Soura locality of Srinagar, is hard to forget. It was 25th August when the boy had us all cry. Though every single death that was suffered More


  • Kashmir

Geelani castigates govt for imposing curfew

Hyderpora Chalo

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 12: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani has termed Government’s move to enforce curfew to thwart the Hyderpora march on Tuesday as its frustration. “By taking recourse More


  • Srinagar City

In times of 'demilitarization', CRPF takes over Bemina road

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Oct 12: At a time when the government claims to have removed as many as 16 bunkers from the City, the paramilitary CRPF troopers have closed a road and erected a makeshift bunker in Bemina on More



  • Jammu

JK sans modern concept of library even in 2010

Computerized Cataloguing Of 136 Libraries Still A Distant Dream

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Oct 12: Even after the lapse of three years, the much talked about computerized cataloguing and e-linking of 136 libraries in Jammu and Kashmir has remained a non-starter, while the Rs 1 Crore project More


  • Business

'CT Deptt all set to go online by Dec'

COMPUTERIZATION OF VAT REGIME IN JK

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Oct 12: The State Commercial Taxes Department is all set to go online by December this year with the completion of computerization of all its transactions including the Value Added Tax regime to More


  • News

Sharif demands Musharraf be put on trial for treason

M ZULQERNAIN\PTI

Lahore, Oct 12: Dubbing former military dictator Pervez Musharraf as "most corrupt, callous, immoral and ruthless ruler of Pakistan", the Nawaz Sharif led PML-N has demanded that the government seek Interpol More



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