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Day-138: Clashes in North, South

5 Hurt In Pellet Firing; Curfew In Old City

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Oct 26: Five civilians and two policemen were injured in separate incidents of firing and stone pelting amid a shutdown in parts of Valley on Tuesday.Witnesses said a CRPF convoy on its way to Shopian from Srinagar, was pelted with stones by protesters near Rajpora Chowk in south Kashmir More

Political activist’s son hostaged

TARIQ RASOOL

andipora, Oct 26: Hundreds of people took to streets at Hajan here in north Kashmir on Tuesday seeking release of the youth who were arrested over the past few days. Protesters also took as hostage the son of a local political activist.Witnesses said that protesters assembled at Hajan chowk this More

I said what millions of Kashmiris say: Roy

‘Valley Under Most Brutal Occupation’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 26: Under attack over her statements on Kashmir, writer Arundhati Roy Tuesday said she only spoke what “millions of people” in Kashmir have been saying everyday for years. “Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds,” Roy said in a statement from Srinagar More

Exploiting freedom: Farooq Abdullah

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Oct 26: Amid hullabaloo over remarks by Arundhati Roy on Jammu and Kashmir, Union minister Farooq Abdullah Tuesday said there was “too much of freedom” in India that was being used by some to destroy the country.“There is too much of freedom in India that some Indians themselves taking More

Unfortunate: Moily

Hang Them: BJP

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Oct 26: Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily Tuesday termed the comments by writer Arundhati Roy and separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Jammu and Kashmir as “most unfortunate”. While there is freedom of speech, “it can’t violate the patriotic sentiments of the people,” he said. On More

Interlocutors meet Shopian victims’ family

‘Have Been Asked By PM, HM To Get Your Side Of Story’

KHALID GUL

Shopian, Oct 26: The three-member team of interlocutors Tuesday visited the family of teenager Asiya Jan and her sister-in-law Neelofar in Shopian whose bodies were recovered on May 30, 2009, after being allegedly raped and murdered.“We have been asked by the Prime Minister and Home Minister to More

Get Jethmalani’s support

New Delhi, Oct 26: Noted criminal lawyer and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani on Tuesday opposed the party line by coming out in support of the Kashmir interlocutors, saying it is childish and churlish to accuse them of internationalising the issue. Despite More

Counter-guarantee for JK not needed: FM

Economic Editors’ Conference

‘Insurance Instruments Viable Option’

ARJIMAND HUSSAIN TALIBNew Delhi, Oct 26: Downplaying the rationale for counter guarantee by the Union government for externally-funded development projects in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that for those seeking to cover investment risks More



  • Opinion

Interlocutors at work

Delhi's new point men on the state look puny against the overarching dispute on the state

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD



It is yesterday once more in Kashmir. Interlocutors from New Delhi have once again broken upon the scene and seek engagement with the political actors and civil society in the state. But More


  • Op-Ed

Today is the day

We have stories within stories

27TH OCTOBER BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

Today is 27th of October. On this day every year writers and politicians revisit 1947 Kashmir history. There are lots of tales woven in controversies and contradictions about the happenings that lead to More



  • Letters

The word “trivializing” conveys a dismissive attitude

 This is with reference to a report (Greater Kashmir October 26th, 2010) which carries a story in connection with the High Court Bar Association Seminar under the title “Gautam bats for right to self More


  • Editorial

Interlocutors’ Babel

In their first round of engagement the team of interlocutors has been meeting different people in Kashmir, from students to politicians. From raw emotions to set minds! These meetings and what transpires More


  • Kashmir

‘TREAT YOUTH WITH EYE INJURIES’

TARIGAMI WRITES TO OMAR

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 26: The state secretary of CPI (M) M Y Tarigami has urged the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to identify youth, who suffered eye injuries during the present unrest, for treatment. Tarigami More


  • Srinagar City

In times of austerity, SMC spends 'lavishly' on office facelift

Rs 10 lakh initially earmarked for wooden wall paneling, Khatam Bandh, ACs

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Oct 26: At a time when the government claims facing severe financial crunch so much so that it put hospitalized patients on “crash diet”, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) seems to be More



  • PaK

4000 CHILDREN SEEK OBAMA’S INTERVENTION

‘FULFILL PROMISE FOR THE SAKE OF OPPRESSED CHILDREN’

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Oct 26: As many as 4000 Kashmiri children have written letters to the US President Barack Obama to draw his attention towards the “perils of unresolved Kashmir issue” ahead of his next month More


  • News

No change in visa policy on JK: China

K J M VARMA/PTI

Beijing, Oct 26: Rejecting New Delhi's assertions that Beijing should respect India's sensitivities on Kashmir, China Tuesday said that its policy of issuing stapled visas to Kashmiris would remain unchanged More



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