• TOP STORIES

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




  • 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




ADD
Designed Developed and Maintaned By Imobisoft Ltd /Algosol Software Solutions