Hall welcomes Kashmiri Pandits
AYUB JAVAID
Pulwama, Apr 4: People of Hall and adjoining villages on Monday celebrated the return of Kashmiri Pandit youth in a local migrant colony here in south Kashmir. Scores of people attended the welcome ceremony organized by Sheikh-ul-Alam Public School. Nearly 84 Kashmir Pandits, recruited in More
Geelani for revocation of Dogra Certificate order
‘It is an attempt to divide state on ethnic lines’
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Apr 4: Terming the government order on the issuance of Dogra Certificates to the people of Jammu as a deep rooted conspiracy to divide the state on ethnic lines, the Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday demanded its immediate revocation. The Minister More
MLA castigates NC, PDP
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Apr 4: The Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Langate Er Rasheed has expressed surprise over the reaction of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and National Conference about the Dogra certificate order after the Assembly session has ended. "It is surprising that NC and PDP have MoreAPGK invites GK senior editor
5TH GLOBAL DISCOURSE ON KASHMIR
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Apr 4: All Party Group on Kashmir (APGK) in the European Parliament has invited senior editor of Greater Kashmir, Arshad Hussain Kaloo, to attend the 5th Global Discourse on Kashmir (GDK 2011) at the European Parliament in Brussels from May 3 to May 4, 2011. Experts and influential MoreHurriyat (M) rebuffs Ansari’s claim
‘Individual level contact not amalgam’s decision’
Srinagar, Apr 4: After M M Ansari claimed that interlocutors received a representation from Hurriyat Conference (M) the amalgam on Monday said that contact made on individual level by anyone cannot be termed as Hurriyat’s decision. “Hurriyat Conference is a disciplined and organized party MoreBandipora chemists ‘flooded’ with spurious drugs
TARIQ RASOOL
Bandipora, Apr 4: Amidst allegations of nexus between doctors and medical agencies, the chemist shops here in this North Kashmir district are “flooded” with spurious medicines, posing grave threat to the lives of people. The District Drug Inspector, while admitting the alleged nexus asserted MoreBCS to hold training in construction tech
Srinagar, Apr 4: The Building Centre Srinagar is organising three-day training programme on cost-effective and eco-friendly construction technology in the last week of this month. According to a statement issued by Project Manager, BCS, the interested persons including technocrats, engineers MoreKupwara villages without proper crossings; inhabitants aghast
SHAHID RAFIQ
Shalgund (Lolab), Apr 4: The inhabitants of many villages located near rivers and streams in this area are facing severe hardships due to absence of proper crossings. The villagers cross from one to side another on timbers logs which get slippery during rains and become life threatening for More
Man killed, 13 injured in mishaps
Srinagar, Apr 4: A man was killed and 13 others wounded in separate road accidents across the Valley. An unidentified vehicle hit Rakesh Kumar Sadhotra, 35, son of Mohan Lal of New Basti Reasi at Bonigam Kulgam Qazigund killing him on the spot, police said, adding the body of the deceased MoreICPJK conducts screening test
Srinagar, Apr 4: The Initiative for Competition Promotion in Jammu & Kashmir, today conducted screening test for free residential coaching/guidance programme for All India Civil Services (IAS/IPS) preliminary examination, 2011 at Government College of Education, M A Road here. According MoreArmy, social forestry hold plantation drive
Srinagar, Apr 4: Army with the assistance of Floriculture and Social Forestry Departments of Jammu and Kashmir carried out plantation drive in Uri on March 31. Thousands of saplings of Chinar, Bulgarian Apples, Deodar and other species were planted by school children of Army Goodwill School MoreRs 9.37 cr spent on dev works through SMC: Tara
Srinagar, Apr 4: A high level meeting of officers was today held under the chairmanship of Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and took stock of many Dal Development projects presently under execution. Meeting was attended by Commissioner SMC, Mushtaq Ahmad, SDA Chairperson Dilshada Khan, and MoreAbdul Ahad Azad remembered
Srinagar, Apr 4: To commemorate reputed Kashmiri poet Abdul Ahad Azad, a function was held at Radio Auditorium here today. The function was attended by writers and scholars besides a large number of people. The function was organised by Gulshan Cultural Forum Kashmir on the 62ndanniversary MoreHPVT multi-specialty consultation for people on April 6
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Apr 4: On the eve of World Health Day, Help Poor Voluntary Trust is organising free multi-specialty consultation for people suffering from various diseases at Help Poor House, opposite Iqbal Park, Near New Hotel Sunshine here on April 6, Wednesday. According to the Trust functionaries MoreYouth’s Death: Protests resurface in Rafiabad
Srinagar, Apr 4: Protests broke out in Rafiabad area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district once again on Monday over the police’s failure to solve an alleged murder of a local youth.Hundreds of people, including women and children, blocked the Baramulla-Handwara road for hours this morning, demanding MoreDiv Com visits Tral; Awami Darbar held
Srinagar, Apr 4: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Dr Asgar Samoon and Deputy Commissioner, Pulwama alongwith various HoDs of the valley visited Dargah-i-Faizpanah, Tral and took stock of the ongoing work. The Director Tourism, Farooq Shah informed the Divisional Commissioner that an amount More- Kashmir
Hall welcomes Kashmiri Pandits
AYUB JAVAID
Pulwama, Apr 4: People of Hall and adjoining villages on Monday celebrated the return of Kashmiri Pandit youth in a local migrant colony here in south Kashmir. Scores of people attended the welcome More
- Srinagar City
Houseboats cry for conservation
‘Treat the wooden wonder as heritage and face of Kashmir’
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Apr 4: With the number of houseboats in the famous Dal, Nigeen lakes and other waterbodies like Jhelum dwindling during past two decades, the cry for conservation of the wooden wonder is growing More
- Jammu
Govt keen to introduce Punjabi, Dogri in schools: Chib
Jammu, Apr 4: Jammu and Kashmir Government has accorded first priority to promote the languages spoken in the state by providing ample opportunity to the emerging writers and established literacy figures More
- Briefs
JKLF mourns demise
Srinagar: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front has expressed grief over the demise of Sheikh Ghulam Nabi of Chanapora, uncle of Sheikh Abdul Hamid. A number of Front leaders and activists participated in More
- Business
JK in debt trap
Liability touches `29,000 cr in 2009-10
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Jammu, Apr 4: Hauling up the Jammu and Kashmir government for its growing debt pile, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India AG says the state's fiscal liabilities increased by 18 per cent to Rs 28 More
- News
Internal turmoil no justification for fake encounters: Supreme Court
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Apr 4: No amount of internal turmoil in the country can justify fake encounter killings by the police, the Supreme Court said today and asked Andhra Pradesh government to file a status report More


