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Flag row: BJP ups ante

*Swaraj,Jaitley Stopped At Jammu Airport,Sit On Dharna*2 MLAs Among 70 Arrested*Thousands Of BJYM Activists Sneak Into Jammu City *Advani Lodges Protest With PMRAJEEV More

Chidambaram speaks to Omar, Jaitley

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 24: In a bid to defuse tension, Home Minister P Chidambaram today spoke to BJP leader Arun Jaitley and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah after J-K authorities stopped BJP leaders at Jammu Airport ahead of a planned hoisting of tricolour in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Republic Day.Chidambaram More

Highway closed

MUHAMMAD TASKEEN

Banihal, Jan 24: While the police and paramilitary personnel were on toes to foil any attempt by BJP activist to march towards Kashmir Valley, traffic on Jammu-Srinagar highway has been suspended for two days from January 25. Hundreds of vehicles from Srinagar to Jammu were stopped at Banihal and More

Tight vigil at Lal Chowk

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Jan 24: Ahead of Bharatiya Janta Party’s flag hoisting programme on January 26, the Srinagar city has been turned into a garrison by deploying thousands of paramilitary CRPF personnel and policemen on the streets with forces taking control of the Bakshi Stadium and Lal Chowk.Meanwhile More

Clock Tower: The site of political communication

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Jan 24: The Clock Tower in Lal Chowk (Red Square) here might have lost the clocks or the old grandeur, but both the symbol and the place continue to shoot into prominence time and again, making Lal Chowk appear like a perfect centre of political communication.If the former prime of India More

Financial indiscipline forced us to move to RBI: Rather

Overdraft Facility

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Jan 24: Admitting that financial indiscipline in the past has forced the Jammu and Kashmir Government to allow Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to take over the J&K Bank’s role in providing overdraft facility to the state, the government Monday said that the step has saved the bank from ‘nationalization More

Kashmir Conference in London

GK NEWS NETWORK

London, Jan 24: An international conference on Kashmir organized by oldest British Government think-tank RUSI is starting here on Tuesday. The conference will explore the regional dynamics of rising Asian powers and the influence they will exert on Kashmir.In particular, the discussion will seek More

Firing in Sopore

GHULAM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, Jan 24: Panic gripped Sopore township of north Kashmir following a brief exchange of fire between two militants and police this evening.The shootout took place as two militants passing through Chanakhan area of the town, 55 kms from here, came across a police patrol. They said More



  • Opinion

The Politics of Flag Hoisting

BJP is not representing the pan Indian sentiment

VIEWPOINT BY DR.RATTAN LAL HANGLOO

AT a time when the volume of violence in Kashmir was slowly receding and people from all layers were putting their life together by confronting the ill-equipped infrastructure, with no minimum supply of More


  • Op-Ed

The valley cries

Where do stand the promises you made. These distraught and frustrated people need an answer

MATTER OF CONCERN BY HASHIM QURESHI

As election fever ran high in Kashmir, mainstream political parties used their rallies, meetings, media etc. to repeatedly convey to the people that they would take care of their basic needs and day to More



  • Letters

What Kashmir needs right now is a healing touch

The more things change for India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, the more they remain the same. Every time it finds the chips are down and voters are seemingly forgetting its nuisance value, the Hindutva More


  • Editorial

Standing up to yatra

J-K Government has enhanced security vigil around Lal Chowk and started a crackdown against JKLF and BJP activists. A raid at JKLF leader Yasin Malik's residence went in vain  as Malik had already More


  • Kashmir

To hoist tricolor in presence of soldiers no bravery: Geelani

ARIF SHAFI WANI

 Srinagar, Jan 24: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday described Bharitiya Janta Party’s rigidity to hoist a tricolor at Lal Chowk on January 26 as a gimmick. & More


  • Srinagar City

Drive to Lal Chowk goes messier

NO RIGHT TURN FROM JEHANGIR CHOWK TO POLOVIEW: COURTESY TRAFFIC POLICE

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Jan 24: At a time when the fuel costs have gone high, a drive to the City centre of Lal Chowk is costing even much higher because one has to unnecessarily drive additional three odd kilometres More



  • Jammu

Court extends Qayoom’s remand

Jammu, Jan 24: A local court on Monday extended judicial remand of the president of Kashmir Bar Association (KBA) Mian Abdul Qayoom for 12-days. Police produced the KBA Chief in the court this morning More


  • News in Brief

Family welfare employees demand salary

SHEIKH NAZIR

Ganderbal, Jan 24: The employees of Family Welfare section of Health Department here have demanded immediate release of their salary. “We haven’t received our monthly remuneration from the last seven More


  • Business

RCOM launches Reliance 3G services in JK

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 24: Reliance Communication (RCOM), India’s leading telecom service provider, today announced the launch of Reliance 3G Services in J&K. The service was launched by Ataul Haque, Circle Head More


  • News

GoI trying to hoodwink int’l community: Fazl-Ur-Rehman

DIALOGUE ON KASHMIR ISSUE

Islamabad, Jan 24: Parliamentary Kashmir Committee chairman, Moulana Fazl-Ur-Rehman has alleged that under the garb of dialogue, the Government of India was trying to befool Kashmiris besides hoodwinking More



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