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To float parties not Army’s job: Omar

‘Voters Know Who Is Who’

JAVAID MALIK

Srinagar, Feb 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday said that it was not Army’s job to float political parties in Jammu and Kashmir. “The issue about former militants floating a political party in the state has been blown out of proportion. It has been projected as if Ministry of Home More

‘Good India-Pakistan relations must for peace’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 27: Highlighting the importance of good Indo-Pak relations in peace and development, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Sunday reiterated that friends can be changed but not the neighbours.“We are always for better Indo-Pak relations and have taken many initiatives to this effect”, he said More

Budget session begins today

Opposition Up In Arms; Coalition On Offensive

RAJEEV SHARMA

Jammu, Feb 27: The ruling coalition partners—National Conference and Congress—have decided to follow their last year’s mantra of going “pro-active” against the resurgent opposition to counter it effectively in the state legislature during the budget session beginning tomorrow with the joint session More

Union Budget at 11.00 am

New Delhi, Feb 27: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will table the Budget 2011-2012 in the Parliament tomorrow at 11.00 am.After Independence, India’s first Finance Minister, RK Shanmukham Chetty, presented the Budget on 26 November, 1947. Since then, the Union Finance Minister of India More

Govt examining matter: CM

Unfortunate Move: PDP

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Leh, Feb 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday said the Government has taken note of the issue regarding replacement of the state logo by the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC). The issue, meanwhile, drew sharp reaction from the opposition PDP which said it will strive to More

Sajad blames separatists for messing up Kashmir

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Feb 27: Blaming separatists for keeping the Kashmir pot boiling, People’s Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone Sunday said as long as separatists exist, Kashmir will never secede (from India).Lone, who unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, also attacked the mainstream More

Ex-Home Minister’s Murder Case

Acquitted cops booked under Public Safety Act

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Feb 27: The Government on Sunday booked the three police personnel who were recently acquitted by the Court from murder charges of State Home Minister Mushtaq Ahmad Lone and his elder brother, under the Public Safety Act.  “Four persons including three policemen who were accused More

Gaddafi regime crumbling

UNSC Slaps Stinging Sanctions On Libya

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Cairo, Feb 27: Muammar Gaddafi clung to his gradually shrinking territory in Libya where the opposition movement appears to be heading towards a siege of Tripoli, as the UN Security Council sprung into action to impose punishing sanctions against the regime. As more cities fell into the hands More

CLASHES IN TANGMARG

2 Houses Torched

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 27: Two houses were torched in when clashes erupted between two groups on Sunday in north Kashmir’s Kunzer village in Tangmarg. However, police prevented the situation from escalating by imposing restrictions in the village and launching manhunt for the miscreants allegedly responsible More

Weather improves

Highway To Open Today

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar Feb 27: Even as weather improved on Sunday after several days of continuous rains in the plains and snow in upper reaches of Valley, the Srinagar-Jammu highway remained closed for the traffic for the second consecutive day.Meanwhile, the Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rains More

Kakapora man shot dead

GK NEWS NETWORK

Pulwama, Feb 27: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a man in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday, police said.A police spokesman said the gunmen fired upon Muhammad Ayub Wani son of Abdul Khaliq Wani near Kakapora Chowk this evening injuring him critically. He was rushed to the hospital More



  • Opinion

‘Tinderbox’ Called Kashmir

‘The Kashmir Dispute and South Asian Regional Security.’

PUNCHLINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

It is a thinking that is now gaining strength with most of the experts in the United States and outside that the resolution of the Kashmir ‘dispute’ is pivotal to peace, stability and security of the South More


  • Op-Ed

Here is an insider view

GK DEBATE

CHIEF MINISTER: MEDICOS DONE IN, HOW ABOUT OTHER SERVICES? DR. JAVID IQBAL PUTS A GRAND QUESTION MARK BEFORE THE RECENT GOVERNMENT ACTION AGAINST DOCTORS PRACTICING AT PRIVATE CLINICS

Chief Minister, you have proved amply, what you meant to convey in SKICC in recent past on doctors in SKIMS practicing while pocketing non-practicing allowance.  You put them on notice, and followed More



  • Letters

It is painful to see our doctors humiliated

It was really painful to read about raids on medicos. The way medicos were treated was humiliating. Nobody is above the law but there should be a proper way to implement laws. There are black sheep in More


  • Editorial

Dangerous Portents

The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council is once again in news for wrong reasons. Its General Council in the meeting held on February 21st has approved the new emblem - replacing the central portion More


  • Kashmir

Will never project Kashmir negatively: Imtiyaz Ali

BOLLYWOOD RETURNS TO VALLEY

KHALID GUL

Pahalgam, Feb 27: Unlike other film makers, who still relate Kashmir with the militancy in their movies, the young Bollywood director, Imtiyaz Ali, says that he would never make such a film that only portrays More


  • Srinagar City

City produces youngest Rock group

While this band of five teenagers has rocked the audience at various shows and even youtube, lack of sponsors is feared to take this Sign The Signature Of Music away from homeland

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

THOUGH all of them happen to be teenagers, this Rock group from Batamaloo area in the City, has shown maturity at shows across north India; be it in Srinagar, Jammu or even New Delhi. Every time they performed More



  • Jammu

PM TO VISIT JAMMU ON MARCH 4

Jammu, Feb 27: The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, would address the convocation of the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences at Technology (SKUAST) Jammu on March 4, official sources told More


  • News in Brief

BEACON workers rescue 175 passengers

Srinagar, Feb 27: The workers of BEACON rescued 175 stranded passengers at Shaitani Nala on Srinagar-Jammu Highway on Friday evening.  In a communiqué BEACON said, “Despite our warning regarding snowfall More


  • Business

Valley traders rue govt policies

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Feb 27:  Traders on Sunday rued policies adopted by successive governments in Kashmir over decades. The traders, who assembled at an oath taking ceremony of the newly elected representatives More


  • News

PaK Council polls expose opposition tug of war

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Feb 27: The recent election to the four vacant seats of the Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) Council may have earned four additional votes from official camp to the main opposition Peoples More



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