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SPO, soldier arrested

Slain LeT Commander Turns Out To Be Hindu Beggar

SURANKOTE ENCOUNTER IS FAKE

PRESS TRUST OF INDIAPoonch/Srinagar, Aug 8: In a major embarrassment for the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, the ‘12-hour long encounter’ in which a top LeT militant from Pakistan was said to have been killed was allegedly fake and the victim has turned out to be a mentally More

Cops involved in fake encounters should be hanged: SC

‘Such Killings Are Cold-Blooded, Brutal Murder’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 8: Police personnel involved in fake encounter killings should be awarded death sentence and hanged, the Supreme Court has said.A bench of justices Markandeya Katju and C K Prasad said that police personnel as custodians of law are expected to protect people and not eliminate them More

Arrests, protests in city

15 Youth Held In Nocturnal Raids, Many Flee Homes; 6 Detained In Islamabad

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, Aug 8: In a fresh arrest spree by police, at least 15 youth were detained during nocturnal raids in different parts of downtown city here, triggering protests and stone pelting in Maisuma today. The protestors were demanding release of the youth. Six youth were also detained in south Kashmir More

Delhi High Court upholds dismissal of 4 BSF men

Accused Sentenced To 10 Years In Jail

Chutrus-Gudru Rape Case

PRESS TRUST OF INDIANew Delhi, Aug 8: The dismissal of four Border Security Force (BSF) personnel by the government on the charge of raping a woman in Jammu and Kashmir nearly 15 years ago has been upheld by the Delhi High Court.A bench of justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Sunil More

Police foil KEA march

Alliance Calls Kashmir Bandh Today

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, Aug 8: Police Monday foiled the peaceful march of Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) by restricting its members to Press Enclave in Lal Chowk area.As soon as the KEA members started proceeding towards the Civil Secretariat from Press Enclave here, policemen deployed in strength immediately More

Politicization of police a deep-rooted malaise: Vohra

‘Criminal Justice System Needs Overhaul’

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Aug 8: Stressing the need for massive police reforms, Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra, Monday said the politicization of police is a malaise beyond repair.“A major problem the country facing today is the nexus between political hierarchy, mafia and bureaucracy,” Vohra said at a More



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  • Briefs

March to Pampore on Aug 11: JKPL

Srinagar, Aug 8: Jammu and Kashmir People’s League Chairman, Sheikh Yaqoob on Tuesday urged the people to march towards Pampore on August 11 to commemorate the martyrdom of Sheikh Abdul Aziz. In a More


  • National

Centre to amend constitution if necessary: ULFA

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Guwahati, Aug 8: The ULFA today claimed that the Centre has assured its leaders that the Constitution would be amended, if necessary, to find an honourable solution to the 32-year old political conflict More



  • Opinion

Is our house in order?

This side or that, things must move on

IMPRESSIONS BY BINOO JOSHI

 It has  often been heard the commentators asking  us to look beyond the Line  of Control, implying that  this side of Jammu and Kashmir should look and compare itself with the More


  • Op-Ed

Today was the day

It all started from here when Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah was imprisoned and Kashmir witnessed a new era of hegemony

9TH AUGUST 1953 BY ABDUL MAJID ZARGAR

The dustbin of Kashmir History is littered with numerous  instances of  personal animosities, intrigues  and conspiracies which have made a telling effect on its destiny. 9th August 1953 More



  • Letters

Hapless contractual teachers: pushed to the wall?

What if educational institutions are closed down? Will that bother government? Perhaps not! Only a blind can say students are getting education, here in valley, when educators are on hunger strike for More


  • Editorial

It's Half-Time

The Congress-National Conference government voted to power in January 2009 is now in office for about three years. And three years is quite a time for any   government, elected for a period of More


  • Business

HDC sets `12 cr sales target this fiscal

Corp to introduce new range of woollen products

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 8: The J&K Handloom Development Corporation (HDC) has set an ambitious sales target of Rs 11.77 crore during the current fiscal.  The corporation has received more than two thousand More


  • Sports

Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal miss out on Pakistan contracts

Lahore, Aug 8: Pakistan on Monday dropped under-scrutiny former captain Shoaib Malik, wicket-keeper batsman Kamran Akmal and leg-spinner Danish Kaneria from the list of players awarded contracts.  More


  • Kashmir

Charri Mubarak leaves Srinagar

Taken to various temples in south Kashmir

GKNN/KHALID GUL

Srinagar/Islamabad (Anantnag), Aug 8: Symbolizing the last leg of the Amarnath pilgrimage, the saffron robed silver mace of Lord Shiva, traditionally known as 'Chhari Mubarak', was on Monday taken from More


  • Srinagar City

R&B fails to provide ‘interim relief’ from Pantha Chowk traffic mess

Ignores repairs of Pampore-Lasjan link road to decongest traffic on single lane highway

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Aug 8: Despite frequent gridlocks on the Pantha Chowk highway, the Roads and Building department has failed to repair a alternative link road, which could decongest rush on the Srinagar-Jammu More



  • Jammu

Bloeria takes over as first V-C of CU-Jammu

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Aug 8: Putting all speculations to rest, former Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir Sudhir Singh Bloeria on Monday assumed the charge as the first Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of the Central University More


  • South Asia

Pak military commanders concerned over Karachi unrest

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Aug 8: Pakistan's top military commanders today expressed concern at the law and order situation in the financial hub of Karachi, where weeks of ethnic and political tensions have left scores More


  • World

Violence on London streets; 160 arrested

PRASUN SONWALKAR/PTI

London, Aug 8: The British capital continued to smoulder under a series of "copycat" riots that engulfed the city for a second day, with looting and arson reported in new areas, just miles from the site More



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