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Interlocutors begin drafting final report on Kashmir

All Eyes On Panel As Speculations Make Rounds In Political Circles

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Aug 7: Having submitted an interim report to the Ministry of Home Affairs some months back, the New Delhi appointed interlocutors have begun drafting the final report on Kashmir settlement amid speculations of difference of opinion in the panel on several ‘contentious issues’ and ‘lack of More

5-day police remand for cops

More Policemen Under Scanner, 2 Depose Before SIT

SOPORE CUSTODIAL DEATH

UMER MAQBOOLSrinagar, Aug 7:  While the two cops arrested on Saturday evening were sent to five days police remand on Sunday, the Special Investigation Team of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, probing the custodial killing of Nazim Rashid Shalla, is investigating the role of More

Militant killed in Kupwara encounter

TOLL 4; LeT Commander Killed In Poonch

SHAHID RAFIQ/GKNN

Kupwara/Jammu Aug 7: Toll in the ongoing encounter at Rajwar forests in frontier district of Kupwara went up to four on Sunday with the killing of one more militant, while a top commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was killed in a gunfight in Jammu’s Poonch district, police and reports said.  More

Work on Doda-Desa-Kapran road goes at snail’s pace

KHALID GUL

Islamabad (Anantnag), Aug 7: Conceived decades back, a road that could have linked Kashmir with erstwhile Doda district in Jammu region is still to be completed. The proposal to construct Doda-Desa-Kapran road was mooted in 1977 during the Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah-led National Conference More

Seminar to debate ‘why young women are unsafe in India’

Priyadarshani Mattoo Foundation To Raise Awareness In Kashmir

CURTAIN RAISER

GK NEWS NETWORKSrinagar, Aug 7: Why do young girls become victims of harassment at the hands of ‘influential guys’? Why aren’t police and judiciary able to do much about it? And what should women do in such circumstances? All these and many more questions are likely to dominate More

Kashmir streets miss Ramadan festivity

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Aug 7: While the holy month of Ramadan is celebrated with festivity and charm elsewhere, Kashmir seems to be an exception. The Valley streets, even in this month of blessings and bounties, wear a desolate look in the mornings and evenings. “Ramadan is a month of blessings and people More

Commerce Ministers meet in Sep

Indo-pak trade

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Aug 7: The Commerce Ministers of India and Pakistan will meet after a gap of over three years in New Delhi next month to discuss ways to boost trade and proposals to remove non-tariff barriers as the two countries make efforts to normalise relations.Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma More

Legislator’s daughter crushes 8-yr kid to death

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 7: An eight year old child Musaib Ahmad Teli was crushed to death by a speedy Tata Safari allegedly driven by daughter of legislator from Karnah near Bulgam Sopore on Sunday evening, eyewitnesses said.“The vehicle (JK01 4301), which was moving towards Srinagar from Baramulla, hit More

Landslides disrupt traffic on highway

MUHAMMAD TASKEEN

Banihal, Aug 7: Vehicular movement on the 300-km Srinagar-Jammu highway remained suspended for about 12 hours on Sunday due to landslides and shooting stones triggered by heavy rainfall at many places, officials said here. They said the landslides at various places along the highway blocked More



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  • Briefs

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 More


  • National

Autumn 2011: Valley to host first literature festival

SHAKOOR RATHER/PTI

New Delhi, Aug 7: Come September, Kashmir is all set to host its very first Literature Festival with poetry and fiction readings, discussions and seminars, with an added emphasis on the region's folk and More



  • Opinion

Sentimentality and Diplomacy

Realpolitik demands a deeper engagement

PUNCHLINE BY Z. G. MUHAMMAD

It's alarming. A story carried in a Kolkata daily attributing a statement to Octogenarian Kashmir leader Syed Ali Geelani which was picked up by this newspaper also, besides sending alarm bells in political More


  • Op-Ed

Geelani-Hina interaction

…a subject of conjecture & speculation in Indian Media!

VIEWPOINT BY DR.JAVID IQBAL

Sankarshan Thakur’s write-up in ‘Daily Telegraph’ on 31.07.2011 provided some food for thought.  Sankarshan is a known columnist and ‘Daily Telegraph’ a reputable paper. That indeed added to the surprise More



  • Letters

Everyone is trivializing tragedies!

This refers to the Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti’s statement that chief minister Omar Abdullah was trying to reduce the latest tragedy in Sopore into a farce through his juvenile responses More


  • Editorial

The Gathering Storm

Just a fleeting look at the newspapers in Kashmir, and the worry about how the things shape up in coming days sounds real. Though it's true that the data can be placed in one particular way to offer the More


  • Business

Dry spell threatens crop failure in Kupwara

Of 45,000 hectare gross area sown, 22000 un-irrigated

SHAHID RAFIQ

Kupwara, Aug 7: The prevailing dry spell has left parched vast tracts of cultivatable land in this north Kashmir district threatening paddy, maize and vegetable production. The sustained increase More


  • Sports

JK to host first North Zone cricket tourney

U-14, 19 SELECTION TRIALS IN FULL SWING

Srinagar Aug 7: Scores of boys are exhibiting their skills in batting and bowling as Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association has kick started week long selection trials for Under-14 North Zone cricket tournament 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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