The hinges of my life

EXPERIENCE

Kids, more than anything else, need warmth and love while being guided and not scolds and sticks, writes Basim Amin Bazaz

On a particular afternoon, in my sixth grade classroom, my physics teacher came up to my desk and asked, “Guess how many marks you must have obtained in your last class test?”  It scared me. I was not used to teachers. I definitely was not used to teachers walking up my desk, looking me in the More
Tortured tender souls

SOCIETY

Violence against Kashmiri children leaves scars, writes Salman Nizami

Ten-year-old Farhat Ahmed is one of seven children in a family from Baramulla. His mother and father have a hard time earning enough money to feed the entire family, So Farhat shares some of their burden by washing cars to earn money for the family. With so many mouths to feed and so little income More
Love your life

SOCIETY

As this is a gift which once gone can never be had back, Muhammad Kamran Shamshad writes on the phenomenon of suicide

I am in the prime of my youth. My life is full of fun. Different colors characterize it.  Few bright and eye soothing while as few are with grey shades. I never take advices from mellower people instead I say ‘darn it!’ Advices do nothing but flare me up, make me ratty. My blood is always up More
  • Kashmir

Prompt public service vital for good governance: Omar

‘My Government made time-bound service delivery a legal binding’

AWAMI MULAQAT

GK NEWS NETWORK Srinagar, July 20: Terming prompt delivery of public service as an important ingredient of good governance, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Wednesday said that his focus is on creation of More


  • Srinagar City

Drainage work irks Nawakadal localities

LOCALS THREATEN ROADSIDE PROTESTS

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, July 20: The residents of Nawa Kadal localities like Khanqah-e-Sokhta, Lakhiryaar and Dhar Kocha are up in arms against the concerned authorities for what they said “snail’s paced and haphazardly More



  • Jammu

Yatra set to cross 5 lakh-mark

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, July 20: The footfall at the Amarnath shrine is likely to breach the 5 lakh mark on Thursday with more than 4,90,000 pilgrims already having paid obeisance at the cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas More


  • South Asia

Mullah Omar death report false: Taliban

Kabul, July 20: The Afghan Taliban’s spokesmen said on Wednesday their mobile phones, e-mail accounts and a website had been hacked to send out false messages to media claiming the movement’s supreme leader More


  • Business

Special handloom expo-2011 begins at Pahalgam

Slathia for multi-pronged marketing strategy to boost sales, exports

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 20: Minister for Industries and Commerce S S Slathia today inaugurated a special handloom expo-2011 at picturesque tourist destination, Pahalgam. The expo to continue till August 3 More


  • World

Famine has killed thousands in south Somalia: UN

Nairobi, July 20: Parts of southern Somalia are suffering from famine, a UN official said Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Somalis have already died in the worst hunger emergency in a generation.The More


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