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Batamaloo SHO shot

Guard Critical; Gunmen Followed Santro In Auto-Rickshaw

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Jan 4: Suspected militants on Tuesday evening shot at and wounded Station House Officer (SHO) Batmaloo and his bodyguard in Srinagar.Police sources told Greater Kashmir that suspected militants fired on Inspector Nazir Ahmed Teli and his bodyguard Muhammad Iqbal near Bazar Masjid Dhobi More

Don’t push Kashmiris to violence again: Mirwaiz

‘UN Has Failed In Kashmir, Appointment Of Interlocutors Futile’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Jan 4: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Tuesday warned that Kashmiris will be again forced to take to violence if India continues with its “oppressive” policies to suppress the ongoing movement for right to self-determination and delays resolution of the Kashmir More

Malik dares BJP to hoist tri-color in City Centre

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Jan 4: The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, on Tuesday challenged the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) for its plans to hoist the Tri-color in Lal Chowk here on January 26.“I challenge them to come and hoist the flag. The day will decide whether they will More

Police uncover cyber fraud

Accused Hacked E-Banking Accounts, Siphoned Money By Cloning Credit/Debit Cards

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar Jan 4: A Nigerian national is under scanner of Jammu and Kashmir Police while four other persons have been arrested in the first case of cyber bank fraud in the Kashmir Valley.In a first expose of its kind, police claimed to have unearthed a cyber crime network in old city’s Safakadal More

Modus Operandi

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 4: Giving details of the case SP North Showkat Shah said the fraud was exposed after a city jeweller was paid Rs 1, 35,000 through credit card by one of the accused for purchase of ornaments.“Soon after the purchases were made, the jeweller received a call from HDFC bank to ascertain More

Digvijay releases Karkare’s call records

‘Arrest Of RSS-Affiliated People Stopped Blasts’

New Delhi, Jan 4: Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh Tuesday said the bomb blasts in the country have stopped after the arrests of “RSS- affiliated people” in the Malegaon blast case.Under attack over his claim about a call from Hemant Karkare, Digvijay today produced record of the conversation More

Significant improvement in JK situation: PC

‘Interlocutors Have Changed Discourse In Kashmir’

New Delhi, Jan 4: Home Minister P Chidambaram Tuesday said there has been a significant improvement in the law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir as the government-appointed interlocutors have been able to “change the discourse” in the troubled valley.“The three-month period of agitation More

PDP protests with Lalteens in Lal Chowk

Demands Return Of Power Projects From NHPC

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Jan 4: The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tuesday held demonstrations in Srinagar to protest “the deteriorating quality of life under the present coalition government, electricity crisis, sell-out of water and power resources and continued official repression.”In the unique More



  • Opinion

Experiments with Kashmir

Two simultaneous dialogue panels on the state, one official and another unofficial with by and large same objectives only detract from the seriousness of both

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

Interlocutors on Kashmir have competition. A ''non-NDA, non-UPA'' panel of politicians and civil society activists is holding a parallel dialogue in Valley to arrive at their own “realistic framework” More


  • Op-Ed

Forget “Intellectuals”! What about “Leaders”?

This is the time to face the bitter truth

INTROSPECTION BY JUNAID AZIM MATTU

“One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself” – Mark Twain At a seminar on the “Role of Intellectuals In Freedom Struggle” held in Srinagar recently, a few More



  • Letters

RTI awareness: We need accountability

This refers to news "R&B Department executes works without tendering" (GK Dec 21). Kudos to Right to Information Act which is now a weapon with people to expose the corrupt practices in the state government More


  • Editorial

Service Rules

Services constitute a permanent sector of economy. In fact the other two sectors are fused with this tertiary segment of modern day economy. In the State of J&K there are some special reasons for this More


  • Kashmir

Valley hospitals lack vital equipment

Experts advocate separate Purchase Committee for Srinagar

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Jan 4: Absence of a full-fledged Purchase Committee (PC) to procure vital drugs and equipment is proving detrimental for the patient care in Kashmir hospitals. The two committees one each More


  • Srinagar City

Airport Road accident accused granted bail

‘BMW BOY JASIM KAWOOSA OF NOWHATTA IS A FREE MAN’

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Jan 4: Jasim Hussain Kawoosa of Shahr-e-Khaas –the accused in bone chilling accident of crushing to death an engineering student on the City outskirts past month–has been granted bail by a local More



  • Jammu

NC Core Group discusses 'crucial' issues

TO MEET AGAIN TODAY

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Jan 4: The Core Group of the ruling National Conference (NC) met here on Tuesday to discuss ‘crucial’ issues, including the voices emerging from the Congress camp to rotate the Chief Minister’s More


  • Briefs

Hussaini mushaira held

SHEIKH NAZIR

Ganderbal, Jan 4: To pay tributes to Karbala martyrs, Anjuman Sharie Shian, J&K, Ganderbal branch on Monday organised a day-long ‘Hussaini Mushaira’ at Town Hall here. The Mushaira was presided More


  • Business

Lack of govt manpower affects fruit production

GK CORRESPONDENT

Jammu, Jan 4:  Shortage of manpower in Horticulture Planning and Marketing Department is badly hampering the work in the department which in turn affects the fruit production in the state, experts More



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