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DAY-104: Humhama youth succumbs; toll 109

Curfew relaxed in phases, to continue today

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Sept 22: A youth injured in the police and CRPF firing last week succumbed here on Wednesday taking the death toll in the present Kashmir unrest since June 11 to 109 while the Valley witnessed another day of curfew today despite Hurriyat Conference (G) calling off protests for the day. Curfew More

No strike today, tomorrow: Geelani

Hits out at Govt for imposing curfew on 'normal days'

Srinagar, Sept 22: Castigating the government for imposing curfews on “normal” days, Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani Wednesday amended the protest calendar by exempting 23 and 24 September from the purview of the strike.The veteran leader said the government by imposing curfew More

Journey to find Kashmir solution has begun: Congress

  New Delhi, Sept 22: The Congress Wednesday said the move to send an all-party delegation to the troubled Jammu and Kashmir was the 'beginning of a journey' to find an acceptable solution to the problems in the state where over 100 people have been killed, mostly in firing by security More

DUJ condemns media gag, asks Press Council to intervene

  New Delhi, Sept 22: The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) has demanded that the undeclared ban on newspapers in Kashmir valley be ended and the Press Council of India should not only take notice of the assaults on the press there, but visit Srinagar, meet journalists’ bodies and strive More

17 die in JK accidents

Srinagar: Eight Nepali labourers were among seventeen persons killed in separate mishaps across Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said Wednesday.  They said nine persons were killed when a Sumo vehicle they were traveling skidded off the road and rolled down into nearly 400ft gorge on Srinagar More

Left for urgent steps, calculated risks on Kashmir

‘Killings unacceptable, solution within constitution’

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, Sept 22: The Left parties on Wednesday asked the government to take urgent steps to restore peace and normalcy in the Kashmir Valley by putting a stop to police firing on protesters and selectively withdrawing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Srinagar.They also favored discussions More

Paswan for unconditional talks with separatists

New Delhi. Sept 22:  Seeking a timebound action plan to resolve the Kashmir crisis, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan today favoured unconditional talks with all sections including separatists and withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act from the troubled state.Paswan, who was a member of the More

Row over AFSPA revocation

JK Govt can make Act unworkable: Experts

Muddasir Ali

Srinagar, Sept 22: While the Government of India is trying to buy more time on revisiting the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government can “independently” take a call on the controversial issue, legal experts opine.The demand by the state government for removal of More



  • Opinion

Battleground Kashmir

TRAGEDY

IT’S GENUINE ANGER PITTED AGAINST STATE INTRANSIGENCE, COMMENTS PROF.M.A.SOFI

           In the midst of an unprecedented crisis in Kashmir marked by an agitation that is spontaneous, generally unaided and uninstigated by ‘vested More


  • Op-Ed

UNLEASHING HELL OVER HELL

“Little math and No sorry for Indian Jalianwala Bagh”

WE REMEMBER ONLY ONE DONE BY BRITISHERS AND FORGET THE REST DONE BY INDIANS, COMMENTS RASHMI SEHGAL

13 April 1919 or “Jalianwala hatya kand” was or the saddest day in Indian history. Reading about which leaves every Indian or student of history with tears. However, question is whether that was the first More



  • Letters

Kashmiris have been suffering for long. Why?

Kashmir has been bleeding for the past three months. Hundreds of people have lost their lives while scores have been injured. The all party meeting chaired by Dr. Manmohan Singh in Delhi on 15th of September More


  • Editorial

Dance of Death

With one more youth succumbing to his injuries, the spotlight is once again on the shoddy manner in which protests are being handled in the Valley by police and paramilitary forces. One almost gets an More


  • Kashmir

Caged conditions affect people adversely

Psychological, physiological disorders on rise: Experts

ARSHAD M BHAT

Srinagar, Sept 22: With people across the valley caged inside their homes due to the shutdown and strict curfew imposed by the government for the past several weeks, the prolonged restrictions will adversely More


  • Srinagar City

8 trapped in SKIMS lift

Rescued after 3 hours

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Sept 22: Eight persons, including four of a family, had a narrow escape when they got trapped in a lift at SK Institute ofMedical Sciences Soura here for around three hours and nobody could rescue More



  • News

SC declines hearing plea urgently to defer HC Ayodhya verdict

New Delhi, Sept 22: The Supreme Court today declined to hear urgently a plea to postpone the Ayodhya title suit verdict and barring any last-minute intervention it will be delivered by the Allahabad High More



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