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Chill greets Interlocutors

'Pak Key To Kashmir Solution'

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Oct 23: Amid a cold wave sweeping Kashmir, the three-member team of interlocutors arrived here and set off the dialogue process on Saturday by describing Kashmir as a “dispute” and saying solution to the problem could not be achieved without taking Pakistan onboard.“There is a Pakistan More


Panel meets Baig, Aga

Visits Hazratbal, Central Jail

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 23: Immediately after landing here, the team of interlocutors on Saturday started the dialogue process by holding parleys with politicians, members of civil society and reaching out to people in jails.The team first met mainstream leader from opposition Peoples Democratic Party, More


JK MAY LOSE PRIZED CENTAUR TO PRIVATE FIRM

Govt Silent; Business Community Furious

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Oct 23: J&K is on the brink of losing a multi-crore business establishment set on the banks of the world famous Dal Lake to an outside corporate house.A proposed move by Air India, having chain of business properties in different states, to lease out the Hotel Centaur on the Dal More


Shabir Shah rejects parole

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 23: Senior pro-freedom leader and chairman of Democratic Freedom Party, Shabir Ahmad Shah, who is undergoing detention under the Public Safety Act, Saturday rejected the Government’s offer to release him on parole.Pertinently, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as a goodwill gesture on More


Salathia inspects Nichehama Lignite site

Announces Rs 2 cr For Handwara IE

GK NEWS NETWORK

Handwara, Oct 23: Minister for industries and commerce, S S Salathia on Saturday said seven million tonnes of Lignite were available in the Lignite reserves at Nichehama, Rajwar, in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. This, he said could be used to generate 660 MW power.“The project will generate More


Defence exercise delays flights

Airlines, Hajj Pilgrims Left Fuming

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Oct 23: The Srinagar “International” Airport is again in news for wrong reasons. This time, a ‘defence exercise’ is causing inordinate delay in landing and take-off of the flights from the aerodrome, including those for the Hajj pilgrims.Informed sources disclosed to Greater Kashmir More




  • Opinion

Good Shoe, Bad Shoe

Whoever throws at whoever, it's grossly indecent

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

Another shoe throwing spectacle in Delhi has revived the debate on this bizarre mode of expressing fury. This time it is Kashmiri Pandits carrying on Ahad Jan legacy. Their protest against Geelani apart More



  • Op-Ed

Maktab to University

It’ll be a mistake to fail new universities’ bill

DATELINE SRINAGAR BY ARJIMAND HUSSAIN TALIB

The passage of the bills for establishing two private universities in Kashmir and one in Jammu by the Legislative Assembly on October 9 came up as a welcome development. This news of three new universities More




  • Kashmir

Killings shatter Palhallan families

KASHMIR UNREST-2010

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Palhallan (Varmul) Oct 23: Next of Kin (NoK) of the victims killed in this north Kashmir village during the present unrest are yet to come to terms with life. They are finding it hard to believe that their More



  • Srinagar City

FIRE AT RESIDENCY ROAD HAMZA COMPLEX GUTTED

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 23: Fire broke-out on the fashionable Residency Road Saturday evening gutting a shopping complex. The flames were being doused till late at night when the reports last came in. Officials More




  • Jammu

JK has highest female tobacco users in North India

Jammu, Oct 23: Jammu and Kashmir has the highest number of female tobacco users in North India, a report, Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) – India, 2010, released recently says. Official sources More



  • Business

Expert group on PM’s job plan holds meet with JK officials

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Oct 23: A sub-committee of expert group on Prime  Minister’s job plan for J&K today held a series of meetings with officials of the state government and traders to explore possibilities More



  • News

DFP member bereaved

Rawalpindi, Oct 23: Kashmiri community based in Islamabad and Rawalpindi have expressed deep sorrow and grief over the sad demise of the mother of Mir Asrar Hussain, the senior member of the Democratic More




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