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Govt employees threaten agitation

Want Concrete Action On Our Demands: JCC

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Aug 5: Over four lakh state government employees workforce Friday threatened to launch fresh agitation in Jammu and Kashmir if government failed to release their 6th pay commission arrears and fulfill their other demands.To begin with, the employees under the banner of Joint Consultative More

PROTESTS, CLASHES IN OLD CITY, SOPORE, ISLAMABAD

Strike In Pulwama

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Aug 5: Clashes broke out in old city between protesters and police Friday afternoon against the curbs on the movement of Hurriyat (M) Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, even as the government put all the top separatist leaders under house detention. Protests were witnessed in north and south More

Separatists under house arrest

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 5: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani continued to remain under house arrest for 10th consecutive day on Friday while Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was put under house detention this morning. Other leaders who were put under house More

Situation under control: DGP

‘Separatists Want To Keep The Pot Boiling’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, Aug 5: Maintaining that the situation was under control in the Kashmir Valley, Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda today said there are elements interested in fomenting trouble to keep the pot boiling in the region."Situation is well under control. Let me tell you there are some people More

Army cautions against complacency

Jammu, Aug 5: Army Thursday cautioned the security agencies in the state against developing any sense of complacency because of the decline in the militancy in the state, particularly in the Jammu region.It asked the security agencies to be vigilant as the militants were still planning to cause More

Jet Airways bid for midnight operations grounded

Matter Referred To IAF Headquarters

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Aug 5: Private carrier Jet Airways’ bid to operate midnight Hajj flights from the Srinagar ‘International’ Airport is unlikely to be a success story.Informed sources disclosed to Greater Kashmir that the Srinagar-based office of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has refused to give nod to the More

JK population 12548000

Srinagar, Aug 5: There has been 23 percent increase in the population of Jammu and Kashmir in the last ten years and according to the latest census figures it stands at 12548000 while it was 11043700 in 2001.Director of Census Operation Farooq Ahmad told local news gathering agency KNS that the More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

2 infiltration bids foiled: Army

Srinagar, Aug 5: Army on Friday claimed that it foiled two infiltration bids along the Line of Control (LoC) in frontier district of Kupwara.    “The attempts by militants to sneak into More


  • National

ULFA presents charter of demands, seeks change in Constitution

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 5: The banned ULFA today sought amendment in the Constitution for finding "meaningful" ways to protect the rights and identity of indigenous people of Assam. To find an honourable solution More



  • Opinion

Another innocent falls

And it triggers another wave of fury

WORDS WITHIN BY FIRDOUS SYED

Forced peace is superficial in nature. That’s the reason why even the semblance of peace in Kashmir is fragile. The brutal killing of Nazim Rashid Shalla of Sopore is enough to remind that hardly anything More


  • Op-Ed

Exploring Writer’s Bias

FEEDBACK

THE WRITERS HAVE NOT BEEN JUST AND FAIR IN ANALYZING AND ASSESSING THE DILEMMA OF POLITICAL UNCERTAINTIES OF KASHMIR, G.M BAWAN RESPONDS TO TWO ARTICLES BY Z.G.MUHAMMAD AND DR ABDUL AHAD

      Two articles by Dr Abdul Ahad and Z.G.Muhammad were published in Greater Kashmir (18th & 27th July 2011).Both articles deal with the question of leadership, particularly More



  • Letters

Islamia College: The glory that was

The write up published in Greater Kashmir titled “Politics mars historic Islamia College” portrays the indifferent and callous attitude of state administration, bureaucracy and above all the college administration More


  • Editorial

New Tax Ideas

The State Finance Commission, SCF’s recommendations to the state government on widening the tax base in the state have scope for considerable debate. There is no denying the fact that Jammu & Kashmir More


  • Business

FCIK for making special scholarship scheme applicable in JK colleges

Hails CCEA nod

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 5: Valley’s apex industrial body, the Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir (FCIK) today hailed the approval of Special Scholarship Scheme for J&K by the Cabinet Committee on Economic More


  • Sports

After Sajid, AIFF selects Hilal Parray for AFC A-Licence Course

ABID KHAN

Srinagar, Aug 5: Only two days after All India Football Federation (AIFF) selected Sajid Yusuf Dar for the A-level Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Coaching Course, it has announced the name of second More


  • Kashmir

Future docs caught copying in GMC

Cellphones used for unfair means

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, Aug 5: Final year MBBS students in Government Medical College Srinagar have been caught red-handed by Kashmir University authorities copying from cellphone and paper material. The incident occurred More


  • Srinagar City

Dog scare forces Musalees to walk in groups, with lathis

Venturing out for prayers during dark is getting difficult in the City with over one lakh and growing canines on prowl while the government is yet to get rid of the menace

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Aug 5: Parvaiz Khan, Bilal Khan, Farooq Ahmed and engineer Arjumand –neighbors in Barbarshah locality make it a point that they go to Masjid for Tarawi and Fajr prayers together. Also, they don More



  • Jammu

Sporadic protests mark JCC strike call

Work in govt offices remains partially affected

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Aug 5: Work was partially affected in the Government departments across Jammu region as a section of the employees went on two day strike from today to protest delay in the release of 6th Pay Commission More


  • South Asia

Pak moves away its main warships from Karachi

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Aug 5: Claiming there were "all time high security threats," Pakistan navy has moved away its main battleships out of its Mehran naval base in Karachi to the Makran coast in Balochistan.  More


  • World

'More than 2,000 dead in Syrian crackdown'

MATTHEW LEE

Washington, Aug 5: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has accused the Syrian government of killing more than 2,000 of its own citizens during its ongoing brutal crackdown against opposition protesters More



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