We All Deserve a Stone to be Pelted at…

Because we are Equally Responsible For Bringing Kashmir to a Never-ending Chaos

VIEWPOINT By Prof. Muhammad Aslam

Matthew Arnold, an English poet of great fame, wrote an elegy to mourn the plight of the Victorian England that had lost the ‘calm’ and ‘quietness’ in the wake of new scientific research. Arnold found similarities between the “grating roar/Of pebbles” on the Dover Beach which brought him “The eternal More
Close call in Kashmir

BOOK REVIEW

A must-read novel for all those engaged in making sense of the present-day Kashmir, writes Ashok Ogra

“Terrorist violence and a nightmare drive Shamsuddin Bandey, head priest of a shrine in Aishmuqam village in Jammu and Kashmir, to find out more about some of the 300-year old scrolls kept in his family’s custody for generations. But his actions arouse the suspicions of a top bureaucrat and a More
A voice we won't hear now

TRIBUTE

Nikki Appa has left us with some unforgettable memories and a voice which will always keep echoing in our hearts and minds. Dr. S.M Fazlullah, IAS respondes to Farooq Naziki's piece on a noted broadcaster who expired recently

I read in Greater Kashmir (21.01.2011) with keen interest Farooq Naziki's piece of literature and an obituary titled “Vadi Ki Avaz silenced, Niki Aapa is no more”. It was saddening to know that a visionary and a legend with the mellifluous voice of the Radio Kashmir  is no more. I agree that More
  • Kashmir

Class-IV posts in AHD

Aspirants cry foul in selection list

WILL LOOK INTO MATTER: MINISTER

KHALID GULIslamabad (Anantnag), Jan 28: The candidates who had applied for the class-IV posts in the Animal Husbandry Department here have alleged large scale bungling in the selection process. “Many More


  • Srinagar City

Devotees complain of inconvenience

Say erratic power, pungent water, shortage of space affect celebrations

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, Jan 28: While scores throng the hillock shrine of Hazrat Sheikh Hamzah Makhdoom Sahib (RA) during the ongoing Urs, the Intizaamiya Committee and the devotees there have accused the government More



  • Jammu

PDP mocks at government's call for talks with separatists

Demands release of all political prisoners

Jammu, Jan 28: Accusing ruling alliance of using “draconian methods” to establish its authority, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Friday mocked at the state government's repeated calls More


  • News in Brief

Attention Bla SW candidates

Baramulla, Jan 28: According to District Social Welfare officer Baramulla, those students who were provided cheques under scholarship schemes during 2009-10 and 2010-11, should immediately cash those cheques More


  • Business

JK participates in SATTE 2011

11 lakh tourists visited Kashmir in 2010: Jora

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 28: Minister for Tourism and Culture, Nawang Rigzin Jora today stressed that J&K needed to be promoted aggressively as a tourism destination across the globe.He said the tourism sector More


  • News

No dramatic outcome expected in Thimpu

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 28: It will be an attempt to “unlock” the process of normalisation of ties when Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in Thimphu early next month More


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