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All Party Delegation arrives amid tight security

Future of Kashmiris secure with India: Chidambaram

Mission Kashmir

Srinagar, Sept 20: The Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram, leading a visiting Parliamentary delegation to Kashmir, on Monday assured the people of the state that they were “secure with India.”Amid strict curfew and heavy presence of forces, the 42-member parliamentary group arrived by a special More


APD reaches out to separatists

Accept Kashmir as dispute: Geelani; Acknowledge demand for Azadi: Mirwaiz;Now there is no gun, what is your view: Malik asks delegation

ARIF SHAFI WANI/ MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Sept 20: In a significant development, the members of the All Party Delegation of the Parliament on Monday met the seniorseparatist  leaders at their residences to pave way for normalizing situation in the Valley which is on boil over 100 civilian killings for past 3-months More


No respite from curfew

Sporadic protests at many places; 12 injured in Sopur clashes

Gowhar Bhat/Khalid Gul

Srinagar/Islamabad Sept 20: A strict curfew remained clamped across the Kashmir Valley on Monday as the all-party delegation was on a visit to the Valley. Meanwhile, fresh protests in north Kashmir, Sopur, against the death of a girl yesterday, left a dozen people injured. The condition of the More


Prolonged curfew to affect mental, physiological conditions of people: Experts

‘They are prone to alterations in mood, anxiety and depression’

Arshad M Bhat

Srinagar, Sept 20: With people across the valley caged inside their homes due to the strict curfew imposed by the government from the pastseveral weeks, the prolonged restrcitions will adversely affect the mental and physilogical conditions of the individuals, especiallychildren, health experts More


Invisible on ground, mantris surface at SKICC

Face tough questions by delegation members, privately

Faheem Aslam

APD VISITSrinagar, Sept 20: If any famed maxim holds true for the Jammu and Kashmir ministers and mainstream politicians, it is this: “subject to appearance of moon”.For the past three months, people rarely saw the minsters and political leaders who thronged More


APD to visit Tangmarg, hospitals today

Srinagar, Sept 20: The visiting All Party Delegation to Kashmir to asses the situation is scheduled to visit Tangmarg in north Kashmir on Tuesday, sources told Greater Kashmir.They said that delegation would meet the people in Tangmarg where six persons were killed in forces firing last week after More


PM briefs Prez on Kashmir

New Delhi, Sept 20: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called on President Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan and briefed her about the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir.According to an official statement, in the 45-minute meeting, the Prime Minister also apprised the President More


Address K-situation in light of political contours: Sajad Lone

GK News Network

Srinagar, Sept 20:  The Chairman of Peoples Conference Sajad Lone on Monday said the Kashmir situation should be seen and addressed in light of the political contours of an issue that has remained unresolved for decades. “An unambiguous distinction between grievances and aspirations should More




  • Opinion

Let hearts speak

The rest can be understood by all

IMPRESSIONS---UDAY SHANKER

There is  a saying, “'What comes from the lips reaches the ears. What comes from the heart reaches the heart.”  It was true decades ago and it is true today and it will remain true for ever.”& More



  • Op-Ed

AFSPA, Not the Issue; It Energizes the Issue

THIS IS THE TIME FOR A VISIONARY STATESMANSHIP TO STAND UP AND ACT, COMMENTS PROF. M. I. BHAT

What distinguishes dictatorship from democracy is the rule of law, absence of which in the former dispensation allows a dictator to commit worst human rights violations, including murder of citizens, with More




  • Letters

A joke called All Parties Delegation

This refers to the much-hyped visit of the All-Party Delegation to Kashmir. It seemed to be yet another joke played with the people of Kashmir. On one hand, the state government imposed stringent curfew More



  • Editorial

Gagging the Press

It will pass   as the cruelest of cruel jokes in the history of Jammu and Kashmir.   The biggest ever contingent of the parliamentarians from the largest democracy in the world arrived More



  • News

KCCI presents memorandum to APD

Srinagar: The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( KCCI) presented a memorandum  to AlL Party Delegation here on Monday. The memorandum read:  “The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and More



  • Kashmir

PDP not impressed

APD should have met people on streets: Mehbooba

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Sept 20: The Peoples Democratic Party Monday said there was nothing to cherish about the All Party Delegation (APD) visit to Kashmir “except that the delegation met the separatist leadership More



  • Srinagar City

Curfew, 3-tier security between SKICC, Airport

Ambulances, doctors, govt employees denied movement

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Sept 20: Amid strict curfew, three-tier security measures were in place in areas around the route connecting the Srinagar International Airport with SKICC, the venue for All Party Delegation More




  • Jammu

Envisaged 8 years ago, e-governance remains elusive to J&K

Red-tapism, laidback approach disallows project to take off well

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Sept 20: Envisage eight years ago in the year 2002, the Rs 13 crores e-governance project in Jammu and Kashmir has yet to see the light of the day--   the combination of red-tapism and More



  • News

KCCI presents memorandum to APD

Srinagar: The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( KCCI) presented a memorandum  to AlL Party Delegation here on Monday. The memorandum read:  “The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and More



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