Transition to Afghan security forces begins
Kabul, July 17: The process of handing control from foreign to Afghan security forces began in Afghanistan today, a spokesman for the interior ministry said. A ceremony was held at the police headquarters in the central province of Bamiyan, the first of seven areas to transition responsibility More
US to restore military aid to Pakistan
Islamabad, July 17: The US is mulling to restore the suspended $800 million in military aid and equipment to Islamabad, Pakistan's spy chief was quoted Sunday as saying. Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who heads the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), said this had been indicated by senior US officials More
Benazir's former security guard killed, violence erupts

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Karachi, July 17: Aamir Shah, the former security guard of assassinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and a senior leader of the ruling PPP, was gunned down here, triggering a fresh wave of violence in Pakistan's financial capital. The 42-year-old Shah, who headed the Peoples Unity More
UN drops Taliban names from sanctions list

Agencies

Kabul, July 17: Fourteen former Afghan Taliban leaders have been removed from an international blacklist by the UN Security Council. President Hamid Karzai's government had asked the UN sanctions committee to drop the names from the list. They include four members of the High Peace More
The Lumbini project: China's $3bn for Buddhism
Kathmandu, July 17: The town of Lumbini in Nepal is where the Buddha was born as Prince Gautama Siddhartha, before achieving enlightenment more than 2,500 years ago. Now China is leading a project worth $3bn to transform the small town into the premier place of pilgrimage for Buddhists from More
  • Kashmir

Report indicts former Health Deptt officials for wrongdoings

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, July 17: The government appointed special audit team has noted several discrepancies, including financial loss to exchequer at Medical Block Beerwah in central Kashmir’s Budgam district.   More


  • Srinagar City

ERA project fails highway traffic regulation

Given 10 days to complete 200 metre drain, work incomplete even after 20 days

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, July 17: There is no end to Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA)’s slow paced work on drainage construction in the south City taking the entire stretch along the highway “hostage”.  In the More



  • Jammu

Committee recommends creation of 57 new tehsils

Realigning boundaries

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, July 17: The revenue boundaries of 22 districts in Jammu and Kashmir are likely to be re-demarcated to carve out 57 new tehsils.  Sources told Greater Kashmir the Committee constituted to examine More


  • News

Darjeeling set for historic treaty amid controversy

INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

Siliguri, July 17: The hills of Darjeeling are set to see a historic tripartite pact Monday between the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), the West Bengal government and New Delhi. But the Left Front is against More


  • South Asia

Transition to Afghan security forces begins

Kabul, July 17: The process of handing control from foreign to Afghan security forces began in Afghanistan today, a spokesman for the interior ministry said. A ceremony was held at the police headquarters More


  • Business

‘JK to amend Agriculture Production Marketing Regularity Act’

15 upcoming fruit mandis to have internet connectivity

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, July 17: As a part of a massive plan to grab the national and international horticulture markets, 15 upcoming modern fruit and vegetable mandis in Jammu and Kashmir would be linked with internet More


  • World

OIC, West pledge to combat intolerance

ARAB NEWS

Istanbul, July 17: In what can rightly be described as a seminal step in relations between the Muslim world and the Western world, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the leading nations of the More


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