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SNOW, RAINS FREEZE VALLEY
Avalanche Alert Sounded, Highway Closed, Flights Suspended
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Srinagar, Feb 14: Kashmir received another spell of heavy snowfall Monday with intermittent rains continuing for the third consecutive day today. The Met office has forecast more downpour and high danger avalanches mostly in upper reaches of the Valley in next 24 hours.Kashmir valley remained More
Maloora toll 3
4 Year Old Muskan Succumbs
UMER MAQBOOL DAR
Maloora (Srinagar), Feb 14: The death toll in Maloora explosion rose to three with the death of four-year old Muskan Monday morning. The locals have blamed forces for the tragedy saying that unexploded material left behind after a gunfight last year was not cleared.Talking to Greater Kashmir, More
Maqbool Bhat lost 3 kids
Maloora (Srinagar), Feb 14: Sitting inside his single room house, 45-year old Muhammad Maqbool Bhat is calling his three dead children back in his long wails, as people console him.His three children- Noor Muhammad (15), Bismah (9) and Muskan (4) were killed when an explosive shell, left behind More
PDP in Chinese Soup
Mehbooba Accuses Delhi Of Double-Standards
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, Feb 14: A day after Home Minister P Chidambaram threatened action against the Peoples Democratic Party for showing parts of Jammu and Kashmir under China in a power-point presentation, the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Monday hit back saying New Delhi was scared of speaking about China and More
BJP Demands Sedition Charges
Cong for immediate withdrawal of map
New Delhi, Feb 14: Congress on Monday objected to the Peoples Democratic Party’s depiction of parts of Jammu and Kashmir as places in China and Pakistan and demanded “immediate withdrawal of the controversial map”.The party asked its former ally in Jammu and Kashmir to desist from such “pictorial More
Give space to peaceful struggle: Yasin to Delhi
Asks Govt To Stop Harassing Youth
MUDDASIR ALI
Srinagar, Feb 14: Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front chief Muhammad Yasin Malik on Monday asked the Government of India to provide “proper space” to the ongoing movement in Kashmir and respond to the transition from violent to a peaceful struggle.He pitched for immediate release of political More
JK set to get SVC chairman, 2 SICs
Selection Committee Likely To Meet On February 18
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, Feb 14: If all goes as planned, Jammu and Kashmir is all set to get the State Vigilance Commission chairman and two State Information Commissioners as the selection committee is likely to meet on February 18 to discuss the issue.Informed sources said that the SVC would get the chairman More
Omar tweets for end to destruction
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Jammu, Feb 14: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday expressed his outrage on Twitter over the killing of three children in an accidental explosion of a shell in Srinagar last night.“God please put an end to all this death and destruction. How many more graveyards do we have to fill before someone More
PDP in action
Activists of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took out a ‘resolution rally’ in Jammu on Monday. Mir Imran/GK
‘Don’t harass Kashmiris’
JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik addresses a news conference in Srinagar on Monday. Mubashir Khan/GK
Snowfall in Rajouri
Sharda Sharief in Jammu’s Rajouri district witnessed a fresh snowfall on Monday. Mir Imran/GK
Kashmir cut off
Srinagar bound trucks wait near Nagrota on Monday. The Srinagar-Jammu highway remained closed for second consecutive day today due to inclement weather. Mir Imran/GK
Tragedy......
People offer funeral prayers of two minors killed in Maloora explosion on Sunday. Aman Farooq/GK
Beautiful Kashmir
Amidst snowfall a lone boatman rows through Dal Lake in Srinagar on Monday. Habib Naqash/GK
Fresh snowfall
Kashmir Valley, including summer capital Srinagar, witnessed a fresh snowfall on Monday. Habib Naqash/GK
PDP draws parallel between Egypt, Kashmir
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti addresses a news conference in Srinagar on Saturday. Mubashir Khan/GK
Maisuma erupts
Protests broke out in Maisuma area, JKLF bastion, after word about JKLF chief Yasin Malik being attacked by BJP activists in Ajmer spread in the area. Habib Naqash/GK
Where are our kith and kin?
Members of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) staged a sit-in in Srinagar on Thursday. Mubashir Khan/GK
Gone with the wind
Officials pull out a houseboat from River Jehlum in Srinagar on Tuesday. The houseboat had capsized after strong winds and snow lashed Valley on Sunday and Monday. Mubashir Khan/GK
Snow, snow everywhere
Life in Tangmarg town, gateway to Gulmarg, remained paralyzed in wake of heavy snowfall on Monday. Mir Muneeb
Beautiful......
World famous health resort Gulmarg in north Kashmir witnessed heavy snowfall on Monday. Mir Muneeb
- Opinion
Lands; of Chosroes and Pharaohs
WORLD
DR. JAVID IQBAL SHARES PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF CHANGING ISLAMIC WORLD
Marde-i-Mi’ayid - Man has come! Allama Iqbal’s opening line in his Persian poetic treatise Zaboor-i-Ajam (Zaboor-the old text, Ajam-non Arab, mostly applied to Iran) formed the slogan on More
- Op-Ed
Commerce 0f the Electricity we Consume
ISSUE
HIGH POWER TARIFF IS ONLY MEANT TO INFLATE REVENUE, WRITES DAYA SAGAR
JK Public Sector Companies are accused for making losses. Similarly it shall not be unfair to call JK Power Development Department a “Super Public Sector” that has the cost of sales as nearly one third More
- Letters
Ice berg that is melting in the Nile
The popular revolt in Egypt against the authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak is exemplary in many ways. One can't help saluting the unity, courage, steadfastness and forbearance of Egyptian people. I More
- Editorial
Frozen Governance
Despite pulled down in morass of scams and corruption, the government in New Delhi has not only managed to control the rise of prices of essential commodities but has also succeeded in slashing them down More
- Kashmir
File detailed report on illegal constructions: Court to Govt
PAHALGAM MASTER PLAN ROW
SAMAAN LATEEF
Srinagar, Feb 14: High Court on Monday directed the state government to file detailed report of illegal constructions in the ecologically fragile zones of world famous tourist resort Pahalgam in south More
- Srinagar City
Nowpora family seeks CM’s intervention
2006 FAKE ENCOUNTER
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Feb 14: The family of a City youth who was killed in fake encounter allegedly by Army in 2006, has sought intervention of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to give them justice. The family of More
- Jammu
PHE workers suspend strike after Govt invokes ESMA
Jammu, Feb 14: The government on Monday declared the strike call given by PHE employees from tomorrow as illegal and decided to invoke Essential Service Maintenance Act against the striking employees More
- News in Brief
Army, SOG searches Surankote forests
Srinagar: Army and SOG personnel on Monday carried out cordon and search operations in Surankote Poonch. According to PBI, Army’s 16 Rashtriya Rifles and SOG cordoned off Murd Chawani forest area More
- Business
Mir for easy loan schemes to agriculturalists
GK NEWS NETWORK
Jammu, Feb 14: Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir Monday distributed 175 Kissan Credit Cards worth Rs 75 lakhs among the farmers of three villages of Akhnoor Tehsil here at a function, while stressing More
- News
ULFA leaders meet PM
New Delhi, Feb 14: A delegation of ULFA leaders, led by its 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, days after the group sat for unconditional talks with the government.& More




