CURFEW, SHUTDOWN CRIPPLES KASHMIR

Protests, Clashes In Srinagar, Ganderbal, Pampore, Islamabad, Bijbehara; 14 Boys Arrested

GOWHAR BHAT/KHALID GUL

Srinagar, Sept 8: Widespread protests broke out in summer capital and elsewhere in the Valley even as curfew remained imposed here and in other towns on Wednesday. Today the ongoing unrest completed 89 days of almost continued shutdown during which 69 persons, mainly youth and children, have been More

Geelani arrested

Calls For Peaceful Protests On Eid

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Sept 8: Day after threatening to intensify the peaceful protests following the killings of four persons in Pattan, Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani was arrested by police from his Hyderpora residence here today.A large contingent of police cordoned Geelani More

CCS to discuss Kashmir on Friday

Omar Meets PM

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Sept 8: The Cabinet Committee on Security will meet here on Friday to discuss the situation in Kashmir as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking amendments in the Armed Forces Special Powers Act or its partial withdrawal from the state.Omar More

‘Slogans answered by bullets’

Lone breadwinners battling for life

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Sept 8: Battling for life in the Intensive Care Unit of SK Institute of Medical Sciences here, Tanveer Hussain Guroo, 27, is worried about the welfare of his hapless family. Tanveer was fired at along with five civilians by Army troopers in Varmul town on Friday. He is the sole breadwinner More

Video shows cops parading youth naked

Facebook clip triggers rage

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Sept 8: Is there an Abu Gharib in Kashmir? At least a video clip, released and circulated widely on internet, suggests so. The 3-minute video, which has been uploaded on social networking site Facebook and YouTube, shows how paramilitary CRPF troopers and police in a brazen More

No NC-Cong coordination on ground: Soz

‘High command to decide on rotational chief ministership’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Sep 8: Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Saifuddin Soz Wednesday admitted there was no coordination between ruling partners National Conference and Congress at the ground level in the state, but stressed the need for both the parties to move together. "Yes, there is no ground More

Newspaper distribution hampered

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Sept 8: For the past three months, police has prevented distribution of newspapers on several occasions in the Valley. The distributors of local dailies told Greater Kashmir that since June 11, police have been frequently stopping them from distributing newspapers to various More