Pak pursuing terror as State policy: India

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 18: India has hit out at Pakistan for pursuing terrorism as an “instrument of state policy”, saying such a strategy was “flawed and self-defeating”.Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who is likely to meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in Thimphu on the margins of a SAARC More

PDP to hold protests today

Demand Release Of Youth

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Jan 18: Intensifying its anti-government program, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party would Wednesday take to streets across Jammu and Kashmir to seek implementation of its five demands including resolution of Kashmir issue. The party would also demonstrate against the “governance breakdown More

SECURITY HEIGHTENED AHEAD OF JANUARY 26

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Jan 18: Ahead of January 26, police and paramilitary personnel have intensified searches and frisking in Srinagar city and other parts of the Valley. State Government is likely to impose restrictions in the city in view of BJP’s flag hoisting plan and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front’s More

Investigate all killings since ‘90: Tarigami

Demands Revocation Of Special Powers To Forces, Slams BJP

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Jan 18: Maintaining that Kashmiris were suffering due to inordinate delay by India and Pakistan in resolving the dispute, the State Secretary of CPI (M) Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami Tuesday demanded investigation into all the killings, including of 112 civilians last year, in the Valley since More

Domestic flights arrive at int’l terminal

Kashmir Hoardings To Dot Aerodrome Premises: AAI

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Jan 18: What has brought relief for the flyers and airlines, the Airports Authority of India has formally started receiving the domestic flights at the international terminal of the aerodrome.The initiative, according to officials, has been taken in a bid to decongest the airport and More

Sex scandal witness turns hostile

AGENCIES

Chandigarh, Jan 18: In a setback to the CBI probe into the infamous sex scandal, a “rape victim” has turned hostile. In a complete reversal of her earlier recorded statement wherein she had accused former Jammu and Kashmir minister Raman Mattoo of rape, a 45-year-old constable with the J&K Police More

Minus 5.6 degrees in Srinagar

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Jan 18: Cold conditions continued unabated in Kashmir division as Kargil town was the coldest place in the region at a low of minus 21 degrees Celsius.The minimum temperature in Srinagar city, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, fell by 1.5 degrees to settle at minus 5.6 degrees More

China shows Aksai Chin as its own

K J M VARMA

Beijing, Jan 18: China today officially launched its state-run mapping website that rivals Google Earth, showing Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin in Jammu and Kashmir -- two key areas of dispute with India --  as part of its territory.The map called ‘Map World’ displayed on the Internet in More