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CM orders probe

JuM Claims Responsibility; Cops Enquiring Why Minister Didn’t Inform Police

ATTACK ON SAGAR

IANS/GKNNSrinagar, Dec 12: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday ordered a thorough investigation into the attack on Law Minister Ali Muhammad Sagar at his home in Srinagar a day earlier that killed his bodyguard.“The Chief Minister wants a comprehensive report and how it happened More

AFSPA revocation decision after consulting security forces: Antony

‘Issue Discussed In UHQ Meeting On November 9’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Dec12: Government Monday said the issue of partial revocation of AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir was discussed in a meeting of Unified Headquarters last month and maintained that decisions on security matters are taken after consultation with concerned states and security forces.In written More

Afghan situation to impact Kashmir: Army

‘Attack On Sagar Indicative Of Militants’ Presence’

Srinagar, Dec 12: General Officer Commanding of Army’s 15 Corps, Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain, has said there may be attempts by militants to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir and the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2012 will have an impact on the security situation in the state. He said the More

‘DAA revocation, AFSPA not interlinked’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Dec 12: The army Monday said revocation of Disturbed Area Act (DAA) by the Jammu and Kashmir government will not affect the applicability of AFSPA in the state as the two laws are not interlinked.“DAA has no relation with AFSPA. It is a misconception that the two laws are linked to each More

AFSPA issue mishandled: Mehbooba

GK NEWS NETWORK

Rajouri, Dec 12: Taking a dig at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for ‘mishandling’ the issue of revoking Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), PDP president Mehbooba Mufti today said that this issue was raised only to divert attention of the people from Haji Sayeed Yousuf Shah’s death as this ‘sensational More

Salman Soz set for public life in Kashmir

Quitting World Bank Job To Join Valley’s Social Milieu

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 12: Salman Anees Soz, son of state Congress chief Prof Saifuddin Soz, is all set to move into public life in Jammu and Kashmir. Though Salman has not yet shown any inclination towards joining politics, but observers feel his venture into other fields like social or economic activism More

Stroke cases show alarming increase in Valley

‘1080 Patients Admitted In SKIMS This Year’

ARSHAD M BHAT

Srinagar, Dec 12: The number of stroke cases has shown an alarming increase in the Valley with health experts advising persons vulnerable to the ‘brain attack’ to remain more cautious during winters.Doctors in the premier tertiary care, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura More

Night temp dips in Valley

Gulmarg Shivers At -10.2

Srinagar, Dec 12: The summer capital Srinagar witnessed the coldest night of the season so far with the minimum temperature dropping to minus 3.2 degrees Celsius early Monday. Leh town froze at minus 14.2 degrees.“The coldest place in the state today (Monday) was the Leh town in the Ladakh region More

Pak threatens to close airspace for US

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Islamabad, Dec 12: Admitting a "credibility gap" between Islamabad and Washington, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has not ruled out closing country’s airspace to US and said the blockade of the US supply lines into Afghanistan would stay in place for weeks.The ban on NATO supply lines More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

Doc dies in road mishap in Saudi Arabia

Srinagar, Dec 12: Dr Mymoona Mir, a Kashmiri doctor working in Saudi Arabia, died in a road mishap. She was buried at Nifi on Monday. Wife of a eye specialist, Dr Bashir Ahmed Balroo, Dr Mymoona was More


  • News

Centre defers All India Entrance Test pattern

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Dec 12: Even as the Supreme Court is yet to decide on holding a pan-India single entrance test for admission to MBBS courses, government has decided to postpone the test by another year after More



  • Opinion

Time to ponder

We must make our tomorrow better, safer

IMPRESSIONS BY BINOO JOSHI

For the past two months, the state of Jammu and Kashmir and its mandarins are stuck with the debate on the removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from  some parts of the state , as if this More


  • GK Magazine

MOULANA MASOODI

Unforgettable Character Of Kashmir’s Modern History

TRIBUTE BY DR A H SHAH

WHAT MAKES HIM UNIQUE AMONGST HIS WHOLE LOT OF COMPATRIOTS AND CONTEMPORARIES IS THE FACT THAT HE WAS NEVER LURED BY POWER AND MONEYIt was twenty one years ago on this day, after offering asar prayers More



  • Letters

Private tuition

This refers to news that Government teachers at all levels have been barred from taking private tuition. It is for the first time that such a step has been taken by the JK High Court. Circulars in this More


  • Editorial

Something is fishy

That the Government of India has been funding Madrassas in the state might have come as surprise to many.  Since mid-eighties, the state controlled media as well as New Delhi based satellite channels More


  • Business

Valley shells out `1.5 cr on petrol daily

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Dec 12: With Valley witnessing a sharp increase in the number of vehicles over past some years, the per day petrol consumption has reached to a whopping over 2 lakh litres amounting to about More


  • Sports

JK Bank beats Orissa Police, qualify for semis

6TH ALL INDIA SAMBALPUR FOOTBALL TOURNEY

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 12: J&K Bank football team defeated Orissa Police 3-1 in the quarterfinal of 6th All India Sambalpur football tournament in Orissa. The Bank team had been given direct berth into More


  • Kashmir

Beeru residents allege step motherly treatment

Demand creation of administrative Sub-division

R M BHAT

Budgam, Dec 12: The inhabitants of Beeru in this Central Kashmir district are up in arms against the government for its failure to create an administrative sub-division in the area. “From 1970, we More


  • Srinagar City

Greetings, grief knock together at Sagar’s door

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Dec 12: As Srinagar witnessed coldest night of the season at minus 3.2 degree Celsius last night, the Himalayan chill was quite visible even at the high security official residence of Ali Muhammad More



  • Jammu

Make CAL centres functional: PAC

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Dec 12: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Legislative Assembly today directed the education authorities to make Computer Aided learning (CAL) Centres fully functional in all the schools having More



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