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CM discusses flag issue with Sonia, PC

Says AFSPA Revocation Demand Reflects The Sentiments Of People

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, Jan 19: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today asked BJP not to “precipitate” the situation in the Valley by going ahead with its ‘Ekta Yatra’ to hoist tri-colour at Srinagar’s Lal More

Will hoist flag at any cost: BJP

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Jan 19: Toughening its posture, Bharatiya Janta Party on Wednesday said that they would unfurl tricolour at Lal Chowk on January 26 at any cost.Addressing a news conference here, general secretary of BJP’s Yuva Morcha, Niteen Naveen said that Rastriya Ekta Yatra which commenced from More

Govt more scared of PDP than separatists: Mehbooba

Khalid Gul

Islamabad (Anantnag), Jan 19: The Peoples Democratic Party president, Mehbooba Mufti, Wednesday said that the state government was more scared of her party than separatists. “National Conference is not worried about the separatists who talk of merger with Pakistan or complete independence. They draw More

Will report Kashmir situation to UN: Rapporteur

Interacts With Victims, Scribes, Lawyers

ARIF SHAFI WANI/SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Jan 19: In a significant development, the visiting United Nations Special Rapporteur, Margaret Sekaggya, Wednesday said she would report to the Human Right Council of the international body about the situation in Kashmir including human rights violations in the Valley. She also promised More

Govt has nothing to cure slippery roads

Officials Bank On Sunshine, Urge People To Drive Slowly

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Jan 19: Slippery roads in Kashmir in the wake of recent snowfall seem to be an incurable disease for the Jammu and Kashmir government which has nothing to cure the problem even as the rate of accidents has grown considerably in the past one week.While manual labourers are hardly seen More

Nikki Aapa is no more

Vadi Ki Awaz silenced

FAROOQ NAZKI

UMA Khosla, known to the world of radio and sound as Nikki Aapa, is no more. She died today at the age of 73.Uma as an artist was a star voice in broadcasting for more than two decades. She was the top most female Urdu voice of AIR who can be compared with the legendry Mohina Hameed of Radio Pakistan More

Endeavors to narrow areas of difference: Interlocutors

‘Want Separatists On Board; Forces Cut Will Take Place’

RAJEEV SHARMA

Jammu, Jan 19: New Delhi appointed interlocutors Wednesday said that endeavors are being made to narrow the ‘areas of differences’ for engaging all stakeholders in a dialogue process to search for a definitive political solution in Jammu and Kashmir.“We are examining all the documents submitted More

‘Reconsider flag hoisting plan’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 19: The Kashmir interlocutors today asked BJP to reconsider its plan to hoist the tri-colour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day, fearing it could lead to law and order problems in the Valley.“If the exercise of the right (to hoist the flag) leads to aggravating tension or to thwarting More



  • Opinion

BJP’s Flag March

The religious right has always given birth to political wrong, God help us!

INKSIGHT BY MEHMOOD-UR-RASHID

From Kashmir Satyagrah to Tiranga Yatra things in, and bout Kashmir have gone too far. On 11th May 1953 activists of Bharatiya Jana Sangh headed by Dr Shayama Prasad Mukarjee tried to enter the limits More


  • Op-Ed

In The Holy Precincts

BLISS

WHEN FRAGRANT MILD WINDS WERE KNOCKING THE DOORS OF SHRINE AND TEARS FROM WOUNDED HEART SCATTERED ON THE LAWNS LIKE SHINING PEARLS, NARRATES F.RENZUSHAH

While ascending on compact stairs made of devri stones to enter the shrine of Hazrat Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom located dominantly in midst of Kohi-Maran hillock, my eyes were focused on the summit of Hari More



  • Letters

Have a roadmap and be clear in your options

Read ZGM's interesting article on "failed Negotiators".  I think the Kashmiri leadership should work backwards and decide a road map on whether to have an independent state or merge with Pakistan More


  • Editorial

Talks Again

Indo-Pak talks are again in the air. Foreign Secretaries of the two countries are again meeting at Thimpu, thereby bringing to full circle the process that had started last year at the Bhutanese capital More


  • Kashmir

No troop cut till launching pads, camps dismantled: GoC

KHALID GUL

Shopian, Jan 19: The General Officer Commanding (GoC) of Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lieutenant General S A Hasnain today said that no troop-cut would take place until all “terror camps and launching pads More


  • Srinagar City

AS KALAI DIES, GOVT SINGS NAAGAR NAGAR TUNE

Forget Mughal City rampart, Tourism to develop interiors

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Jan 19: It would sound like a crude joke that one wants to beautify the house while letting its walls collapse. But something like this came true Wednesday when the Tourism Department said it More



  • Jammu

6 MEMBERS SHORT LISTED

Selection of BOSE chairman

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 19: The Search Committee constituted by the state government to select a ‘deserving and competent’ personality as the new chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) on More


  • Business

JK seeks central funding for power project

GK NEWS NETWORK

Delhi, Jan 19: Maintaining that exploitation of local hydel resources was imperative for meeting the future energy needs of the state, the J&K government today sought liberal financial support for More


  • News

JI to host Kashmir Conference on Feb 3: Turabi

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Jan 19: In a bid to express solidarity with the people of Jammu and Kashmir, the Jamaat-e-Islami PaK is all set to host a grand Kashmir Conference in the first week of February in Islamabad More



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