Watchful on China border: Army

‘JK Situation Satisfactory;Troop-Cut Decision Needs Holistic View’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Yol Camp (HP), Feb 15: The Army has taken elaborate measures to safeguard the borders with China and Pakistan and does not see any reason for worry, a senior army officer said Tuesday. He said the Army was alert on these borders.“Army is fully geared up as far as the security of the borderline More

Army Chief reviews situation

Jammu, Feb 15: In the backdrop of Centre’s decision to withdraw 10,000 paramilitary personnel from Jammu and Kashmir, Army Chief General V K Singh Tuesday met senior officers at Udhampur-based Northern Command which looks after the operational area of the state.The Army Chief, who came here on More

Let JK youth be icons of discipline, morality: Omar

CM Interacts With Scouts & Guides

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 15: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today interacted with J&K Scouts and Guides associated with All India Boys Scouts, who had arrived Jammu in large number for participation in Mega campuri 2011 at his residence.Chief Minister said that Scouting is the pivotal and most effective instrument More

Tussle reaches CM Secretariat

CS Submits Report

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Feb 15: The tussle over the appointment of a new secretary to Legislative Council has finally reached the Chief Minister’s Secretariat.Informed sources said the State Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal, who had sought a report from the Law Department about the issue, has submitted his report More

Interlocutors’ report to focus on political solution

‘It Will Be Unlike Earlier Ones’

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Feb 15: Ahead of their next visit to the state, the head of the panel of interlocutors on Kashmir Tuesday said their next report to be submitted to the Union Home Minister would be “broadly focusing on contours of political solution” to the Kashmir problem.“It will be unlike the earlier More

Separatists yet to receive invite

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Feb 15: Even if the New Delhi-appointed interlocutors on Kashmir have claimed that they have dispatched letters to the separatist leaders inviting them for talks, none of the separatist groups or leaders has so far received any intimation.Some of the separatists leaders said that they More

Stakeholders pick holes in JK’s RTI Act

Decry High Application, Xerox Charges; Call For Effective Implementation

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Feb 15: Stakeholders Tuesday pointed out a couple of incongruities vis-à-vis fee structure in the Right to Information Act applicable at the central level and that in Jammu and Kashmir, urging the state government to address the inconsistency for its effective implementation at the grassroots More

SHRC seeks report

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 15: The Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission on Tuesday directed the Director General of Police to file a factual report on Maloora explosion which killed three children.Taking suo-moto cognizance of a report ‘Maloora toll 3’ published in Greater Kashmir today, the SHRC More

Majid Dar’s kin’s house attacked

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Feb 15: Unidentified gunmen attacked the house of Ghulam Mohiuddin Akhoon, brother in law of slain Hizb commander Majid Dar, at Durhama Wagoora in north Kashmir on late Tuesday evening, sources said.They said gunmen resorted to firing injuring Akhoon’s 19-year old sister Shaista and More

Man dies in house collapse

Flights Restored

KHALID GUL

Islamabad/Srinagar, Feb 15: One person died in central Kashmir's Budgam district when a house collapsed due to heavy rains and snowfall last night, police said.The deceased was identified as Riyaz Ahmad Malik of Wadipora, Chadoora.Meanwhile, while the weather remained dry on Tuesday the winter More