HC rejects SMC plea
DIRECTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF POND AT KHIMBER WITHIN 2 WEEKS
DOG MENACE
SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANISrinagar, Aug 17: High Court Wednesday directed Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) to get dog pond constructed at Khimber in Ganderbal district within two weeks. The stray dogs prowling in the City are to be confined and sterilized there. During MoreNow Aga Ruhullah tastes traffic jam
GK CITY REPORTER
Srinagar, Aug 17: With the coalition government failing to “adequately strengthen the staff starved” Traffic police, and take up any superhighway projects, VIPs seem to have started tasting traffic jams, a routine inconvenience for Aam Aadmi in the summer Capital. In the latest it was IT More
For uninterrupted power, Koker Bazar shopkeepers seek metering
GK CITY REPORTER
Srinagar, Aug 17: Irked at the erratic power supply to this marketplace in heart of the City, the shopkeepers at Korker Bazar have sought metering of the area. A delegation of shopkeepers complained that the power supply remains cut for most part of the day adding that it affects their business MoreRose Lane committee seeks drainage construction
SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI
Srinagar, Aug 17: A Mohalla based Samaj Sudhar-Wa-Falaha Behbud Committee of Rose Lane Colony at Chanapora in the City has appealed the concerned authorities to get proper drainage system developed in the area. “The colony was developed during the recent decade and there is huge infrastructure More
- Kashmir
McCain snubs separatists
UMER MAQBOOL
Srinagar, Aug 17: The top Republican US Senator and presidential nominee in 2008 elections, John McCain, snubbed separatist leaders and opted not to meet them during his 2-day stay in the Valley.  More
- Srinagar City
HC rejects SMC plea
DIRECTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF POND AT KHIMBER WITHIN 2 WEEKS
DOG MENACE
SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANISrinagar, Aug 17: High Court Wednesday directed Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) to get dog pond constructed at Khimber in Ganderbal district within two weeks. The stray dogs More
- Jammu
Pro-Anna protests rock Jammu
Students boycott classes; Theatre artists resort to ‘silent’ protest
GK NEWS NETWORK
Jammu, Aug 17: Protests swelled in the winter capital of the state on Wednesday in support of social activist Anna Hazare’s fast-unto death in Tihar Jail, with students, local residents and theatre artists More
- South Asia
Pak military's intentions towards India overrated: Khar
REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI
Islamabad, Aug 17: Claiming that army does not run the country’s foreign policy, Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said the military's intentions towards India have been "overrated" and there More
- World
Courts deal tough with rioters; 1,000 charged for violence
Facebook Users Sentenced To 4 Years In Jail
H S RAO
London, Aug 17: Two young men who tried to incite rioters using Facebook have been sent to four years in jail, the longest sentencing so far by the courts following the four days of unrest, even as more More


