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Valley witnesses early snowfall

Orchards Damaged In South Kashmir; Temp Dips Sharply

GOWHAR BHAT/KHALID GUL

Srinagar, Oct 22: The Kashmir Valley witnessed an untimely snowfall on Friday bringing down the temperature sharply and causing damage to orchards and standing crop especially in south Kashmir.The officials of the meteorological department here said that upper reaches of the Valley witnessed several More

3 troopers die near LoC

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 22: Three army personnel including a Captain, who had laid an ambush near the Line of Control, were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Uri sector of northKashmir’s Varmul district, official said on Friday. Captain Gaurav, Lance Naik Karnail Singh and Sepoy Karan More

Landslide kills woman, lightning hits girl

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Oct 22: Temperature in the winter capital of the state dipped to 2 to 4 degrees below normal as rains lashed the region on Friday. Severe cold gripped mountainous Chenab Valley comprising Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban districts.The Met officials attribute this sudden change to western disturbance More

Interlocutors arriving today

Focus On Youth: Padgaonkar

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Oct 22: Aiming to focus on younger generation of Kashmir, the three-member team of interlocutors is arriving here Saturday on their maiden visit to start the dialogue process with different shades of opinions aimed at resolving the long pending Kashmir issue.Talking to Greater Kashmir More

Restrictions curfew, protests

Valley Remembers Bijbehara Massacre Victims

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 22: Authorities Friday thwarted the Hurriyat’s march to South Kashmir’s Bijbehara town by imposing restrictions in several districts of the Valley.The Syed Ali Shah Geelani-led Hurriyat had called the march to observe the anniversary of the massacre of 43 people allegedly by Border More

Maloora toll 3

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 22: The death toll in the Maloora gunfight in the outskirts of Srinagar mounted to three Friday with the recovery one more body under the debris of the residential houses razed during daylong encounter yesterday.A police officer said that during the searches under the debris of the More

Want India, Pak to resolve Kashmir: US

Intervene: Qureshi to Obama

LALIT K JHA/PTI

Washington, Oct 22: Declining to play any role in Kashmir issue, US Friday said Washington, however, wants to see tensions eased in the region and ultimately a resolution to the situation in Kashmir.“It is for India and Pakistan to find a resolution of the Kashmir issue through additional dialogue More

Ready to go more than half way: India

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Hussainiwala (Punjab), Oct 22: India Friday said it could go more than half way to have better ties with Pakistan as things improve and pitched for consolidation of trade between the two countries.Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today hoped relations with Pakistan would improve in times to come More



  • Opinion

In for a chaos

Are we experiencing a multi-scale disorder?

WORDS WITHIN BY FIRDOUS SYED

Describing the obvious is pointless. Benefits of internet are now well-known. Thanks to the networking, it has become quite normal for two strangers to develop a relationship through digital waves. In More


  • Op-Ed

Welcome Interlocutors

DESTINATION KASHMIR

YES WE WELCOME YOU, BUT WE HOPE THAT THIS EXERCISE WILL BEAR FRUIT AND WON'T GO FUTILE, COMMENTS DR ABDUL MAJID SIRAJ.

People of Jammu & Kashmir have traditional obligations to open their hearts in hospitality  towards all those who visit their homes.   It is expected therefore that the team of interlocutors More



  • Letters

Police must help, not mislead people

On one  hand the government is giving assurance of a free and safe access to the students attending the schools during the curfew period, on the other hand the police is harassing them. I had  More


  • Editorial

Accountability Question

A conflict-ridden state with a long history of political instability may not wish away corruption and nepotism all that easily. However, the culture of impunity breeding gross corruption and nepotism has More


  • Kashmir

MALOORA GUNFIGHT LEAVES BEHIND TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION

SAMAAN LATEEF

Maloora, Oct 22: This small hamlet on city outskirts is in grief. There are reasons why people around are seen shouting, screaming and mourning—all at once.Thursday’s fierce gun battle between militants More


  • Srinagar City

At SKIMS governing body meet,CM prescribes modernization

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 22: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Friday said the SK Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura aimed at providing tertiary health care to the poor on “nominal and affordable expenses More



  • PaK

JKLF stages protest march in PaK

NISAR THOKUR

Muzfarrabad, Oct 22: To reinforce the ongoing Quit Kashmir movement in Kashmir, hundreds of JKLF (Amman Group) workers on Friday staged a demonstration at Khoierata adjacent to the Line of Control (LoC More


  • Business

JK Bank big on bourses

Share Opens At ` 804 On BSE, NSE; Closes At ` 861 And ` 862

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 22: Even as BANKEX witnessed a fall of ` 36 on Friday, the J&K Bank share price went up by ` 58 today.  On National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the JK Bank More


  • News

Panun Kashmir members meet interlocutor

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Oct 22:  Ahead of group of interlocutors’ visit to Srinagar tomorrow, a delegation of Kashmiri Pandits met its member Dileep Padgaonkar here today to apprise him about their concerns, which More



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