No separatist under house arrest: Police
Srinagar, Aug 7: After placing senior separatist leaders, including Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, under house arrest for days, police on Sunday lifted siege around the houses of all the separatist leaders.  The IGP Kashmir Range, S M Sahai, told KNS that they were free to go anywhere More
DP (N) welcomes PM’s scholarship package
Srinagar, Aug 7: Democratic Party (Nationalist) has thanked Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for announcing special educational scholarships for the youth of Jammu and Kashmir   Welcoming the PM’s package, a spokesperson of the party said, “A meeting of DP (N) office bearers under the chairmanship More
Death anniversary of Sheikh Mehdi Hussain observed
Srinagar, Aug 7: The 13th death anniversary of renowned Shia leader and former president of Anjumaine Moin-ul-Islam, Alama Sheikh Mehdi Hussain Kashmiris was observed in Khandah Budgam on Sunday. People from all walks of life participated in the function. Quran Khawani was held at the grave More
  • Kashmir

Pollution hits water chestnut production in Wular

TARIQ RASOOL

Bandipora, Aug 7: The increasing pollution in the Asia’s largest fresh water lake, Wular here has adversely affected the production of water chestnut, threatening the livelihood of scores of people.  More


  • Srinagar City

HYDERPORA FLYOVER ‘BREACHES’ PRIVACY

Residents aghast, seek fibre glass walling; Will do it, assures minister

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Aug 7: At a time when governments even in the metropolitan cities like New Delhi are so sensitive towards people’s privacy living in the vicinity of flyovers, that they got fibre glass walls More



  • Jammu

Shabir for strict action against black marketers, profiteers

‘PAY IMMEDIATE HEED ON CONSUMER COMPLAINTS’

Jammu, Aug 7: Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution and Power, Shabir Ahmad Khan directed CA&PD authorities to keep close vision on black marketing and undue profiteering at More


  • South Asia

HOPES FOR KARACHI SURVIVORS FADE; TOLL 21

Karachi, Aug 7: The death toll in the Lyari building in Karachi collapse rose to 21 as rescuers recovered nine more bodies from the rubble and feared more people, alive or dead, were still under the debris More


  • World

America's deadliest day in Afghanistan

KIMBERLY DOZIER

Kabul, Aug 7: Insurgents shot down a US military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed Osama Bin More


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