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New Delhi to pull out 10000 troops from JK

‘Need To Reach Out To People Of Kashmir; Proposals To Amend AFSPA Before CCS’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Feb 13: The Centre plans to withdraw nearly 10,000 paramilitary personnel from Jammu and Kashmir this year as it feels that the state can do with less central forces. It also said that amendments to the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) are still on the table and hopes the committee More

Will invite Pak counterpart for meeting in March: Pillai

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Feb 13: In a quick follow-up to recent Indo-Pak decision to resume comprehensive talks, Union Home Secretary G K Pillai will extend an invitation to his Pakistani counterpart for discussions here next month on counter-terrorism, including progress in Mumbai terror attacks trial there.
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Who’ll save GMC from derecognition?

*Government Indecisive On MCI Recruitment Rules *65% Posts Vacant Medicos, Students Worried

MATTER OF CONCERN

FAHEEM ASLAM Srinagar, Feb 13: Is healthcare sector a priority for the Jammu and Kashmir Government? It doesn’t seem so. There appears to be no one in the state administration to help remove the clouds of derecognition hovering over the prestigious Government Medical More

Rx: Age Enhancement

“The state government is considering enhancement of the retirement age of GMC teaching faculty by two years, from 58 to 60. The proposal is under active consideration of the state and decision in this regard shall be taken shortly. This would help us retain the faculty for two more years. We will More

2 killed in Maloora explosion

3 INJURED

UMAR MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Feb 13: Two children were killed and three others injured when a shell exploded in Maloora area of Sumbal in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Sunday evening. Eyewitnesses told Greater Kashmir that the shell exploded inside the house of one Muhammad Maqbool Bhat when children were More

PM panel to submit report this month

To Focus On Healthy Financial Package For JK

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Feb 13: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s expert panel, assigned with the task of formulating job plan in unemployment-ridden Jammu and Kashmir, has started drafting its report which is likely to be submitted to Prime Minister’s Office by the end of this month. Top sources disclosed More

Former Pak diplomat rebuffs Musharraf’s claim on K-Resolution

POLITICS

GK NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi, Feb 13: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s views that Kashmir was ready to be resolved during his tenure are “over-optimistic”, a former Pakistani diplomat Dr Humayun Khan, said here on Sunday.  He said Musharraf had yet to rally around public opinion in Pakistan or reach More

HIGHWAY CLOSED

Avalanche Alert Sounded

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Feb 13: Kashmir continued to receive rains in plains and snowfall in upper reaches for the second consecutive day Sunday, disrupting normal life and forcing closure of the Srinagar-Jammu highway. Meanwhile, the Snow and Avalanche Studies Establishment (SASE) has sounded snow avalanche More

Welcome to walk on frozen river!

Govt Woos Tourists By Chaddar Trek In Ladakh

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Feb 13: In a bid to offer something new and adventurous to the tourists in winter, the State Government has started revival of age-old trekking popularly known as Chaddar trek on frozen Zanskar River in mountainous Ladakh. The Government has declared 2011 as Adventure Tourism Year More

Omar v/s Mehbooba over 'controversial' JK map

RAJEEV SHARMA

Jammu, Feb 13: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday castigated the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for presenting a “controversial map” of Jammu and Kashmir, saying “gifting away” parts of the state to another country will not be acceptable. The map displayed by PDP during a power More

It is a big mistake: Home Minister

New Delhi, Feb 13: Home Minister P. Chidambaram has reacted to latest controversy involving PDP and the map that showed parts of India to be as part of China.  Times Now, a New Delhi based news channel quoted the Home Minister as saying that even though he had not seen the report yet it was More

Payal dances to tunes of Kashmiri songs

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 13: It is probably for the first time in public that Payal Abdullah, wife of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, has danced to the tunes of a Kashmiri song at Police-Public Mela in Jammu, something that surprised and pleased everyone including her husband.Payal, who inaugurated the Mela here More



  • Opinion

Asian Powers in Kashmir

Renewed interest in the question of Kashmir at international level

PUNCHLINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

Some eighteen years back British Historian Alastair Lamb, in his second book ‘Birth of a Tragedy’ raised some important questions about the birth of the ‘Kashmir Dispute’. In the questions posed, he looked More


  • Op-Ed

Faiz Ahmed Faiz: The Sufi Marxist

PERSONALITY

A FIGHTER AGAINST FEUDALISM, ARCHITECT OF PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT IN PAKISTAN AND BELOVED OF MILLIONS OF COMRADES, ALMOST EVERYONE OF OUR GENERATION TRIED TO IMITATE HIM; FAROOQ NAZKI REMEMBERS

And when wine, as it is poured, is the sobbing of children whom nothing will console– when nothing holds, when nothing is: at that dark hour when night mourns, be near me, my destroyer, my lover me, be More



  • Letters

Calling them ‘drug addicts with personal problems’ is condemnable

I was shocked to read the comments from the Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar at a press conference recently. His assertion that the 2010 unrest protesters had ‘personal problems’ and ‘they were More


  • Editorial

Future Tense!

Apprehensions for yet another hot summer in Kashmir are not entirely misplaced. Here are the factors that feed such apprehensions; police resorting to random rounding up of youth from different places More


  • Kashmir

PDD casual labourers risk lives for ‘nothing’

'Without wages, compensation; 45 electrocuted, 165 amputated since 1994'

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Feb 13: Scores of casual laborers, working with Power Development Department (PDD), who suffered permanent disability after being electrocuted while carrying out the repair works, have been left More


  • Srinagar City

Forget kids, children's park goes dating point

Parents, separatist leader pestered; say place not worth for minors’ amusement

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Feb 13: Something unexpected of for kids to see is doing the rounds of the City’s sole Children’s Park at Hazuri Bagh. The recreation spot, meant exclusively for minors, with all swings, toons More



  • Jammu

K-interlocutors arriving on Feb 21

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 13: Three Interlocutors, appointed by New Delhi to hold discussions with different shades of opinion in Kashmir, are expected to arrive here on a week long visit of the state on February 21 More


  • Business

Peace imperative for good tourist season: Jora

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar Feb 13: Minister for Tourism Nawang Ringzin Jora today called for joint efforts by government and tourism stakeholders to create “a congenial atmosphere for attracting more and more tourists to More


  • News

Egypt parliament dissolved, constitution suspended

RANIA/PTI

Cairo, Feb 13: In a major move to dismantle the vestiges of the Mubarak era, Egypt's military today dissolved the parliament and suspended the country's constitution, accepting the major demands of the More



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