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 oral traditions."It will provide a platform to celebrate the written word and create a forum More
Heightened security in capital ahead of I-Day celebrations

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 7: An impregnable ground-to-air security apparatus will be put in place in the national capital in the run-up to the Independence Day celebrations, in a bid to preempt any terror strike.Thousands of personnel of Delhi Police and paramilitary will be deployed in and around the city More
FIR delay in rape case can be ignored: SC

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 7: Delay in lodging FIR by rape victims is understandable and cannot be a ground for granting any relief to the accused, the Supreme Court has ruled, upholding the conviction of three persons in a gang rape case.A bench of justices H S Bedi and Gyan Sudha Mishra said that in incidents More
Prefer matriculation certificate over medical opinion for juvenile status: SC

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 7: Matriculation or school leaving certificate should be relied upon over medical report to determine the age of a juvenile, the Supreme Court has ruled.Quashing murder charges against an accused, a bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan said medical examination of a person 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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