• JK to host first North Zone cricket tourney
• 'Sachin will score 100th ton in England'
• Forest-XI beat Handwara-XI by 5 wkts
• Khanyar CC beat Peer Boys
• Eoin Morgan reveals story behind Bell run-out drama
• No pay hike for Pakistan players
• Younger lot watches as 'The Wall' returns to ODI fold
• Didn't play well in 1st T20, admits White

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

• ITBP FORGETS ITS MAN
• ERA holds workshop on environment, safeguard measures
• 'Wonpora bridge will be thrown open by September'
• Fill post of Punjabi teachers or face protests: APSCC to govt
• We will take time to resolve their issues: Tanveer Jahan

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

• Bakshi Qayoom remembered on Fateha
• Gousiya Mohalla complains of ‘poor’ blacktopping
• Rag-pickers erect slum along Tengpora highway

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

• Enquiry Committee gives clean chit to docs
• Clash over land dispute leaves 10 injured
• Suspended MLAs challenge BJP parliamentary board’s decision
• ‘Khajuria self-styled chief whip’
• Orientation programme held for CJMs, JMs

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

• 'South Punjab' demand gains momentum in Pakistan
• Tibetan refugees ask Nepal to address rights in new constitution
• Afghans in Kabul abhor struggle for water
• The futility of Indo-Pak cyber wars
• 39 held in Pak for serving food in Ramadan

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

• Riots erupt in London after fatal shooting
• Jamaat chief blames US for Pakistan’s woes
• Syrian troops kill 57 more protesters; Arab League alarmed
• China launches crackdown in Xinjiang