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Police firing triggers panic in Lal Chowk

FATHER, SON ARRESTED IN RAID

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Oct 28: Panic gripped the heart of Srinagar city Thursday afternoon when police opened fire in the busy marketplaces of Aabi Guzar and Residency Road here.Policemen in a Maruti Van coming rushing towards Regal Chowk indiscriminately fired gunshots in the air amidst huge rush of people More

Crackdown in City Center

Protests In Bandipora; 7 Held In Pulwama

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 28: Life returned to normal across the Valley on Thursday as Hurriyat Conference (G) has called off strike for two days as per its protest chart. However police launched a crackdown in city centre during the day.Shops, businesses, offices opened today while traffic also plied normally More

No case against Geelani, Roy

KPs File Complaint

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Oct 28: The Government Thursday decided not to file any case against Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and activist Arundhati Roy for purportedly giving “seditious speeches” at a seminar held here last week.The decision was taken after considering various issues and it More

Interlocutors wrap up JK visit

`Parliament, Indian Public Must Endorse Solution’

RAJIV SHARMA

Jammu, Oct 28: The interlocutors’ panel on Thursday said that things can be carried forward only when solution to Jammu and Kashmir problem will have ‘complete endorsement of Indian public opinion and the Parliament of India.’Wrapping up their visit to the state, team leader Dileep Padgaonkar More

Whom they didn’t meet

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Oct 28: On their maiden visit to Jammu and Kashmir the three member team of interlocutors nominate by New Delhi to reach out to the different shades of opinion, concluded their tour without meeting the separatists and some important mainstream parties.Though the team—Dileep Padgaonkar More

Employees reject Govt decision

PAY ARREARS

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Oct 28: Day after state government announced release of 50 percent arrears of the 6th pay commission to its employees, the latter on Thursday termed it “unacceptable” and accused the government of violating the agreement made with them.Talking to Greater Kashmir, Employees Joint Action More

Omar sets SKEWPY rolling

‘After Security Unemployment Biggest Challenge’

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Oct 28: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday set rolling the Sher-e-Kashmir Employment Welfare Program for Youth to help prospective entrepreneurs settle their career in private sector.Handing over authority letters of seed capital money to young entrepreneurs selected under the SKEWPY More

Govt norms facilitate purchase of substandard drugs

L-1 Zone Bar Elbows Out High-End Companies

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Oct 28: The Health and Medical Education Department in Jammu and Kashmir is playing with the lives of patients by procuring “substandard” drugs and equipments from a number of companies following a financial code bar seeking procurement only from the agencies which offer the goods at the More



  • Opinion

The Myth of Migration

Kashmiri Pandits Need to Know Better

VIEWPOINT BY PROF.M.A.SOFI

  In a recent article by King Bharati (GK Oct. 25, 2010), the author had hit the nail on the head by suggesting that Kashmiri pandits (KPs) would do well not to indulge themselves in activities that More


  • Op-Ed

Tempest in a tea cup

THE STATEMENT STORM

THERE IS NO NEED TO READ TOO MUCH INTO OMAR ABDULLAH STATEMENT `CHALLENGING' ACCESSION. THE STORY IS SIMPLE, COMMENTS HASHIM QURESHI

In response to Omar Abdullah's Accession speech, the opposition has reacted on two counts. PDP called it “an attempt of re-establishing credibility with the masses of the people while BJP and Panthers More



  • Letters

And everything we had stands collapsed

Five months ago our ‘intelligent’ leaders came out with Hartal calendar. They made Kashmiris believe that by shutting their business, by getting killed, by remaining illiterate, by keeping families in More


  • Friday Focus

The Rise and Fall of Nations

PROF G R MALIK

The situation in which we live today often raises the question of the rise and fall of nations. There is no final explanation to this vexed question in rational terms. The greatest enigma is the sudden More


  • Kashmir

Omar for timely Panchayat polls

‘Will hold APM to discuss election issues’

Srinagar, Oct 28: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah today highlighted the importance of devolution of power to the public representatives at Panchayat level stressing on holding of elections to Panchayats More


  • Srinagar City

Lost in exploring century old engineering marvel

CHATTABAL WEIR

Srinagar, Oct 28: Chattabal Weir—lowhead dam, has been regarded as an engineering marvel, built originally by British engineers a century ago when Kashmir was a princely state.Built from 1903 to 1907, More



  • Business

Government keen to bring professionalism in tourism

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Oct 28: Seeking to bring professionalism in tourism, the tourism department is looking forward to send nearly 400 youth outside J&K for training to overcome the problem of absence of trained More


  • News

After Salahuddin, Jama’at decides to cross LoC en masse

SOLIDARITY FOR KASHMIRIS

London, Oct 28: Amir Jama’at Islami Pakistan Administered Kashmir, Abdur Rashid Turrabi has said thousands of people would cross the Line of Control en masse from Pakistan side of Kashmir to express solidarity More



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