• TOP STORIES

Weatherman predicts snowfall today

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Jan 12: As Kashmir continues to reel under intense cold, weatherman Wednesday forecast another spell of moderate to heavy snowfall in the Valley from the evening of January 13.Assistant Director at Meteorological Department here, A R Zargar, said a western disturbance is likely to hit More

Omar fails to land in Jammu

Cabinet Meet Postponed

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Jan 12: Thick fog caused postponement of the crucial cabinet meeting which was scheduled to be held here Wednesday as the Jammu-bound plane with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on board could not land at the Technical Airport.Official sources said the special plane of the Chief Minister, who More

Gadkari launches march to Srinagar

AGENCIES/PTI

Kolkata, Jan 12: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari Wednesday launched the Rashtriya Ekta Yatra, or the national unity march, that will conclude Jan 26 with the hoisting of the tri-colour at Srinagar’s historic Lal Chowk, a move opposed by the Jammu and Kashmir government.According More

Embarrassed BOSE seeks police help

FIR Filed On Result Leak; Govt Asks For Report; Students Protest Discrepancies

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Jan 12: Clueless on the leakage of class 10 result on a social networking site yesterday, the State Board of School Education Wednesday sought police intervention in the matter.The development comes a day after the result of class 10 was leaked on Facebook before being officially declared More

Positive change in JK atmosphere: Ansari

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 12: The three-member group of interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, appointed by the Centre in October last year, today said that there has been a positive change in the atmosphere in the state.“There is positive change in the atmosphere in Jammu and Kashmir. Many encouraging things More

Hundreds throng police recruitment drive in City

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Jan 12: Volatile Old City witnessed an unusual scene Wednesday as hundreds of youth assembled before police officials for a different reason: try their luck in a special police recruitment drive.Braving harsh chill, a beeline of youth, mostly less-educated, jostled to undergo fitness More

NC, Congress pitch for ILS start

Soz Raises Issue With AAI, Farooq To Apprise Patel

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Jan 12: Political circles in Jammu and Kashmir have stepped in to advocate immediate start of the already-calibrated Instrumentation Landing System at the Srinagar International Airport.While the J&K Pradesh Congress Committee chief, Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz Wednesday issued a statement More

Development works suffer in ERA’s era

‘Lack Of Manpower In ICT Affecting Progress’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 12: Even as execution of the development schemes by the Economic Reconstruction Agency in state’s summer capital has missed the 2009 deadline, the works are unlikely to get completed in near future, raising a question mark on performance of the agency.In 2006, the Agency, which is More



  • Opinion

Of Violence and Responsibility

If Delhi is pushing our youth to violence our duty becomes to hold ourselves back

INKSIGHT BY MEHMOOD-UR-RASHID

It is commonly attributed to a cricketing legend that you prevail by not doing what your adversary wants you to do. And it makes mathematical sense. But people falter because the choice is either tempting More


  • Op-Ed

Betrayal Yesterday, Distortion Today

From the series of historic events, it is evident that tribal attack was launched only when Pakistan was satisfied that accession to India would be a fait-accompli. It was the time they knew they will have no opportunity to claim it later

KASHMIR ACCESSION BY MUNSHI GHULAM HASSAN

In the recent past some misleading articles have been appearing in media distorting the background and overlooking the treacheries that led an independent nation (though ruled by an autocratic Dogra dynasty More



  • Letters

SKIMS: I am all praise for the dedicated

Over recent months there have been opinions expressed, through the media, attempting to tarnish the image of various senior physicians who have served at the Institute. It is so easy to move away from More


  • Editorial

Sinister Advisory

There has been a strong reaction in Kashmir to blanket advisory issued by Maharashtra government against Kashmiris in Mumbai. The state's director general of police office has recently issued a direction More


  • Kashmir

Hard work key to success, say Class X toppers

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Jan 12: Sixteen year old Sana Fayaz of Peerbagh Hyderpora, who topped the 2010 batch of Class X believes that systematic hard work led to her achieving the feat. Sana, eldest daughter of More


  • Srinagar City

Authorities ‘hush up’ Mulberry tree chopping

CLAIM ONLY SINGLE BRANCH DAMAGED BY SPEEDING VEHICLE

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Jan 12: Even though the Mulberry tree trunks were chopped down in broad daylight allegedly by the paramilitary CRPF personnel last month, the concerned authorities seem to be trying to hush up More



  • Jammu

Guv, CM greet people on Lohri, Makar Sankranti

Jammu, Jan 12: The Governor, N N Vohra and Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah have felicitated the people on Lohri and Makar Sankranti, and prayed that these occasions would be the harbingers of peace, progress More


  • News in Brief

'Recruitment drive done in hush hush manner'

Srinagar, Jan 12: People’s Democratic Party today said the police recruitment conducted in the City on Wednesday was done in “hush hush manner and another brazen instance of the insincere conduct of state More


  • Business

NC-led govt hampering cross-LoC trade: Mufti

Calls for adequate infrastructure, free movement of people, commodities across LoC

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 12: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today accused the government of hampering the cross-LoC trade through unnecessary restrictions. Maintaining that the trade More


  • News

Advani says he personally felt what Jinnah had gone through

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 12: Five years after courting controversy for praising M A Jinnah, senior BJP leader L K Advani still seems to be haunted by it as he remarked that he had "personally" experienced what the More



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