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JK gets first CIC

Omar-Mehbooba Consensus On GR Sufi; Recommendation Of ICs On Cards

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Jan 27: Chief Income Tax Commissioner (JK-Amritsar circle), GR Sufi, was Thursday recommended as the first Chief Information Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir while the recommendation of two Information Commissioners is on cards.Sufi’s name was cleared by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah More

Don’t act like Mahatma’s monkeys: Omar tells bureaucrats

RAJEEV SHARMA

Jammu, Jan 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday pulled up the state bureaucracy for its failure to effectively check corruption, saying, “We really need to make more efforts to check it and it has to be weeded out from the top.”“We are number two (in the list of most corrupt states of More

'Won’t allow summer violence again'

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said that he has made two new-year resolutions for 2011, not to allow violence to engulf Kashmir again in summer and to nab the ‘big fish’ involved in corruption.Addressing a function after inaugurating the website and a booklet of Rural Development More

JK spends just 38% in 9 months

ANNUAL PLAN USAGE

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 27: In sharp contrast to the Jammu and Kashmir Government’s claims on fast-track development, the Annual Plan implementation in the state has recorded a slight above 38 percent spending in 10 months of the current fiscal.Sources said the average expenditure during the first six months More

Lukewarm public response a dampener for BJP

Valley Watched The Show Calmly, So Did Jammu

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Jan 27: In the gathering political storm over flag hoisting at Lal Chowk, there was a conspicuous absence of the involvement of the people in both Valley and Jammu.As the Bhartiya Janata Party, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Congress squared up for the big showdown on January More

Geelani protests crackdown on Hurriyat (G)

Calls For State-Wide Peaceful Demos On Friday

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Jan 27: Coming down heavily on New Delhi for tasking the State Government, police and soldiers to use “oppressive tactics” for suppressing the Hurriyat Conference (G), the Chairman of the conglomerate, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Thursday urged people to stage state-wide peaceful demonstrations More

India using violence to silence Kashmiris: Mirwaiz

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 27: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Thursday accused India of using a violent path to silence the non-violent movement of Kashmiris for right to self-determination.Speaking at the conference organized by the prestigious British think-tank, the Royal More

BJP mulls legal action against JK Govt

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 27: Miffed at the “illegal detention” of its senior leaders during the Ekta Yatra, BJP today said it is mulling initiating legal action against the Jammu and Kashmir government on the issue.“Section 144 Cr PC was used to extern three leaders. They were kept in illegal confinement More



  • Opinion

Reform the system

Administration

WE HAVE CARRIED THE BRITISH LEGACY OF SUBORDINATION WHICH BREEDS APATHY AND ARROGANCE IN OFFICERS WITHOUT MAKING THEM ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PEOPLE THEY ARE ACTUALLY MEANT TO SERVE,WRITES FIDA IQBAL

Listening to morning transmissions of Radio religiously for the last more than thirty years is almost a passion for me. Radio Kashmir transmits a popular public interest phone-in programme ‘Loukh cthe More


  • Op-Ed

The politics of totalitarianism

WORLDVIEW

WHAT MAKES PEOPLE FIGHT OPPRESSIVE REGIMES, DR ABDUL MAJID SIRAJ WRITES WITH REFERENCE TO THE REVOLUTIONS THAT OCCURRED THE WORLD OVER

The burning question facing the international politics is why people have to come out in the streets to protest and get themselves killed at the hands of the very people they elected to power.  History More



  • Letters

Sultanul Aarifeen: the saint who will be always remembered

This refers to the articles published about the personality of a great saint Kashmiris know as Makhdoom Sahab. This land of Reshis and and Munnies has produced luminaries in the world of spirituality and More


  • Friday Focus

The Reign of Trickery

PROF G R MALIK

The present-day world is on the whole dominated by an atmosphere which is unpleasant if not utterly hopeless to a sensitive observer. It is not that what is pleasant has become quite non-existent, there More


  • Kashmir

Flag program a success: Malik

‘TO REMAIN UNDERGROUND WAS A CHALLENGING TASK’

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar Jan 27: His hair is unkept. His clothes bore wrinkle marks all over. His voice has lost energy and he takes a pause after every two words he speaks. He is an exhausted man. Reason: he underwent More


  • Srinagar City

Of Road Rage and Rat Race

Of late, Srinagar is turning into a City where reckless driving on plush roads like the Boulevard and the Airport Road is turning crazy. And the key reason for this menace finds roots in the popular maxim More



  • Jammu

Subsidize pollution control devices for brick kilns: Envt Panel

Jammu, Jan 27: The Environment Committee of State Legislative Council today suggested one time subsidy for purchase of pollution control devices for installation in brick kilns to reduce pollution and More


  • News in Brief

Army vehicle hits bus, injure 6

Srinagar: At least six people were injured when an army vehicle hit a mini bus at Khanpora area of Baramulla district on Thursday. The bus (JK05-4133) on way to Zehampora from main town was hit by More


  • Business

Markets tank, Sensex loses 285 pts

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 27: It was all mayhem on the Dalal Street today, when Sensex fell 285 points to close at 18,684 and the Nifty ended 83 points lower at 5,604.30. According to reports all sectoral indices More


  • News

China’s interest in Kashmir dominates RUSI conference

GK CORRESPONDENT

London, Jan 27: The questions of growing interest of China in Kashmir dispute and it potential of converting the region into a theatre for new cold war in South Asia nudged the participants at an international More



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