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Kashmir an int’l issue: Omar

‘JK acceded, not merged with India’

MUDDASIR ALI/ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Oct 6: Amid mounting international focus on Kashmir for its resolution, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said Jammu and Kashmir was an outstanding issue between India and Pakistan, with international recognition. He asked New Delhi to start a sustained two track dialogue process More

We are not puppets: CM

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Oct 6: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday dismissed the charges leveled against National Conference-Congress coalition government that it was a puppet of New Delhi.“Neither me nor my council of ministers are acting as puppets of the Centre. We are not working on remote control More

GOVT REJECTS PROBE BY SC JUDGE

‘98 Persons Killed Since June 11’

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Oct 6: Rejecting to hold a judicial probe by a Supreme Court Judge into the killings during the ongoing unrest in Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday said 98 civilians were killed and 534 persons were injured in police and CRPF action since June 11.In a written reply More

Why Srinagar ousted as embarkation point?

JK Approaches Delhi For Answer

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Oct 6: There seems to be more to the issue of no direct Hajj flights from Srinagar this year than meets the eye.If reports are to be believed, the move—which has drawn flak from various political and non-political quarters in Jammu and Kashmir—has raised a question mark over the ‘international More

Cong in Durbar Move soup

Such Comments Unacceptable: Khajuria

GKNN/GOWHAR BHAT

Jammu/Srinagar, Oct 6: The remarks of a Youth Congress leader suggesting that the seat of government (Durbar) should not be shifted from Srinagar in view of the prevailing unrest in the Valley, has landed the party in a huge controversy.State’s newly appointed Youth Congress president Shoaib Lone More

Mushtaq assumes charge as Chairman JK Bank

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 6: Mushtaq Ahmad Wednesday assumed charge as the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank after his appointment was approved by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).Having joined the Bank in 1972 as Probationary Officer (PO), Mushtaq Ahmad has a distinguishing career of More

Transport plies, shops shut

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 6: Kashmir Valley witnessed a partial normal day on Wednesday with Hurriyat Conference (G) exempting transport services from the strike in view of the Urs of Sheikh-ul-Alam at Charar-e-Sharief in central Kashmir.Shops and businesses remained closed while transport plied normally More

Azad, Muzaffar bereaved

Jammu, Oct 6: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s mother, Razia Begum, passed away after a brief illness. She was the mother-in-law of prominent businessman Muzaffar Dev.She breathed her last at the All India Institute of Medical Science in Delhi late last night.She was laid to rest at More



  • Opinion

Earthmetic off justice

One portion is decidedly unjust. 66% or 33%

INKSIGHT BY MEHMOOD UR RASHID

When history goes to court only politics flows out. That is what happened to Ayodhya verdict. Amazingly it took care of geography as well. In our primary school textbooks we were taught that the earth More


  • Op-Ed

Indian writers and the art of misleading people

Ignorance of the learned

WHY FEED THEM WITH ALL MISINFORMATION ABOUT KASHMIR, ALTAF KHAN WRITES

In his essay “On the ignorance of the learned”, William Hazlitt says, about the learned people, “He Knows as much of what he talks about, as a blind man does of colors.” Same is true about some of the More



  • Letters

Delhi’s 8 point package: nothing but an eyewash

The eight-point (less) Kashmir package announced by the Government of India after 100 civilian killings in Kashmir and over 2000 injuries can hardly be termed as a move forward for a political solution More


  • Editorial

Interlocutors’ Challenge

New Delhi is once again appointing an interlocutor on Kashmir.  The reports suggest, it will be a three member group headed by a union cabinet minister. Several names are doing the rounds over the More


  • Kashmir

ISLAMABAD KILLINGS

Victims’ families await justice

‘WON’T ACCEPT ANY COMPENSATION’

KHALID GULIslamabad, Oct 6: State government accepting that police were involved in the killing of three unarmed youth in this south Kashmir town on June 29 has made their family members hopeful about More


  • Srinagar City

Satellite imaging to aid Master Plan update

EXERCISE TO INVOLVE REVIEW OF ZONAL PLANS

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Oct 6: With the Srinagar Development Authority (SDA) inviting Expression of Interest to update summer capital’s Master Plan, latest satellite imaging is all set to be used for an on-ground analysis More



  • Jammu

'100 PDD D-wagers died, 185 left handicapped in 15 years'

'Working In Hostile Conditions Without Safety Provisions'

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Oct 6: Working in hostile and odd conditions without any provision of safety, about 100 Power Development Department (PDD) daily wagers have died and 185 were left handicapped while performing their More


  • Business

JK faces 55 MT/month deficit in foodgrains

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 6: J&K receives a monthly quota of 63067 Metric Tones (MTs) of ration from the Centre at the scale of 35 kilograms per family per month for 18.02 lakh Ration Ticket (RT) holders, which More



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