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Govt likely to foil BJP, JKLF plans

‘Won’t Allow Anyone To Disturb Law And Order’

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Jan 20: The Jammu and Kashmir Government Thursday hinted that it will now allow the Bhartiya Janata Party to hoist tri-colour in Lal Chowk here on January 26 and also thwart the programme by Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front.“We won’t allow any crisis to happen in Srinagar on January More

Now change network retaining your cell phone number

J&K Embraces Mobile Number Portability

RAJIV SHARMA

Jammu, Jan 20: The eagerly-awaited Mobile Number Portability (MNP) on Thursday finally became a reality for over four million mobile users in Jammu and Kashmir, empowering them to change mobile operators conveniently while retaining the same number.The Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has More

Kashmir resolution our core agenda: Mehbooba

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 20: Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has said the core issue for her party remains the peaceful resolution of the problem of Jammu and Kashmir and it would continue to strive for it within the democratic space.Expressing her thanks and appreciation for the party More

Snowfall likely, says weatherman

Highway Open For One-Way Traffic

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Jan 20: While Kashmir continues to remain under the grip of cold wave, the Meteorological Department Thursday forecast snowfall in the Valley in next 24 hours. “Light snowfall may occur at many places in the Valley,” said Assistant Meteorological Officer, AR Zargar.Head of the Disaster More

‘Shift back offices to Kashmir’

Employees Take Up Issue With Interlocutors

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Jan 20: A long pending demand for shifting back to Kashmir the central government offices, which were moved to Jammu following inception of the armed struggle, resurfaced at a meeting of artisans with New Delhi-appointed interlocutors here on Thursday.A group of employees of different More

OIC supports UN resolutions on Kashmir

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Islamabad, Jan 20: The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) has supported Kashmir solution in accordance with the United Nations resolutions. The reference was included in the declaration adopted at a meeting of an OIC panel in Abu Dhabi.The final declaration expressed “strong support for More



  • Opinion

BJP unmasked

One wonders what makes them do an exercise like this

COMMENT BY HASSSAN ZAINAGIREEE

As if Srinagar has become out of bound and a ‘no go area’ for Indians that pepped up Sang Parivar brigade to declare a war on Kashmiris. And set out to ‘conquer’ the territory that it thinks has lost the More


  • Op-Ed

Learn lessons from the past

LEAF FROM HISTORY

BJP MUST INTROSPECT AND CONGRESS MUST NOT FORGET THE BITTER FACTS OF HISTORY. HOISTING A FLAG AT LAL CHOWK WON'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM, WRITES DR ALTAF HUSSAIN PARA

A distinguished historian of the contemporary times, Eric Hobsbawm, asserts in one of his best essays, Outside and Inside History: “history is the raw material for nationalist or ethnic or fundamentalist More



  • Letters

Check inflation: It's causing hell

This refers to the news “Valley consumers flay petrol price hike.” It is the responsibility of the state government to check inflation. It is not only the petrol price hike that is affecting people. See More


  • Friday Focus

Soul-Searching

PROF G R MALIK

It is a proven psychological truth that in the state of decadence an individual, a community or a people always look for the causes of their decline outside of them. Instead of turning the searchlight More


  • Kashmir

Jan 21, 1990: When Saltanat lost her brave father

51 CIVILIANS FELL TO CRPF BULLETS

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Jan 20: In a usually busy Gawkadal locality here, there are no apparent signs of a carnage that the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force men allegedly carried out two decades back. Yet the More


  • Srinagar City

‘I miss Mamma, Will she ever return?'

On 1st death anniversary, hapless family remembers its beloved

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Jan 20: When eight-year-old Samma woke up on the chilly morning Thursday she was surprised to see her house at Kohnakhan Dalgate thronged by nears and dears, mostly women. However when they started More



  • Jammu

DGP reviews security

Jammu, Jan 20: To ensure peace during R-Day in J&K, the Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda, chaired a meeting here on Thursday. The meeting was attended by senior police, intelligence, More


  • News in Brief

JKLF (Aman) backs Yaseen Malik’s programme

Srinagar, Jan 20: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (Aman) has announced its full support to JKLF chairman Muhammad Yaseen Malik’s proposed programme of hoisting Kashmiri flag at historical Lal Chowk More


  • Business

Cooking gas shortage hits north Kashmir district

TARIQ RASOOL

Bandipora, Jan 20: The LPG shortage, which has gripped this north Kashmir district for past one month, has now turned acute, locals said.  The locals alleged that the LPG distributors in the district More


  • News

Kashmir core issue: Qureshi

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad Jan 20: The Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday reiterated that Kashmir was the core issue between India and Pakistan.“Pakistan can’t just overlook or ignore the core More



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