A riddle called life

Everyone tried to define it, no one actually could

Concept By Isaar Kashmiri

'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days" 
"Where Destiny with men for pieces plays;" 
"Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays," 
"And one by one back in the closet lays" [The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám]      A dead man was asked More
Anna’s crusade

The old man is daring Delhi in the den

VIEWPOINT By Javaid Malik

Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption seems to have unnerved the Congress led UPA Government. It looks as if policy makers in New Delhi were not expecting such a high voltage shock.Arresting Anna and preventing him from going on a fast proved detrimental for the Centre. Government tried to More
Valley chokes me

There is a sense of perplexed normalcy in air

HOMECOMING By Veeresh Saraf

Recently I visited Srinagar in connection with an academic work.  And coming to this city always generates a sense of nostalgic home-coming. But the city is not normal. Despite everything, there certainly seem to be a strong sense of perplexed normalcy in air. And as always, consciousness More
The Seven Sleepers

With them stand identified the companions of the cave

HISTORY By Professor Fida Hassnain

The memorable story of the “seven sleepers”, with whom the companions of the Cave and the Inscription are identified, is a story of the reign of the Emperor Decius. Seven noble youths of Ephesus, it is said, took refuge in a cave to escape Decius persecution. But the Emperor, eventually learning this More
  • Kashmir

Former NC MLC defies court directions

Constructing hut in Pahalgam; PDA assures action

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Aug 18:  Throwing rules and court direction to the winds, a former legislator of ruling National Conference (NC) is constructing a hut at world famous tourist resort of Pahalgam in south More


  • Srinagar City

Traffic rush to double for Eid shopping

While City centre is expected to attract six lakh vehicles, will admin prepare to streamline huge rush, or be caught napping again?

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Aug 18: At a time when routine rush of three odd lakh vehicles leaves the City centre roads chocked what will be the scene when the flow doubles? Well, this nightmarish query is expected to a More



  • Jammu

Alleged trans-border smuggler dies in police custody

Magisterial probe ordered; Police to hold internal probe

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Aug 18: An alleged cross border narco smuggler died in police custody here on Thursday evoking strong protest from the family members. Though the police said that the detainee, Safru Ram, committed More


  • South Asia

42 killed in fresh Karachi violence

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Karachi, Aug 18: At least 42 people, including a popular former MP of the ruling PPP, were killed in a fresh outbreak of violence unleashed by criminal gangs in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, where More


  • World

BODYBUILDER DIES OF TASER GUN BOLT!

London, Aug 18: A 27-year-old bodybuilder in Britain has died after being jolted by a taser gun used by police to normally just stun. Dale Burns, a taxi driver by profession, is understood to be the More


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