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, Mullah Muhammad Omar, had died. The one-eyed, reclusive spiritual and political head More
China asks Tibetan monks to break from separatist forces

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Beijing, July 20: A day after it vowed to crush any attempt to undermine stability in Tibet, China today asked Tibetan monks to "make a clean break with separatist forces" led by the Dalai Lama. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who is currently in Tibet to attend 60th year of celebrations More
Nato hands over volatile Afghan city

AGENCIES

Kabul, July 20: British troops in Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province have handed control of the city of Lashkar Gah to Afghan security forces. In recent days Nato handed over the relatively peaceful province of Bamiyan and the eastern town of Mehtar Lam. But correspondents say that maintaining More
Khar's appointment shows Pak's soft image: Zardari
Islamabad, July 20: The elevation of Hina Rabbani Khar as foreign minister "will send positive signals about the soft image of Pakistan", said President Asif Ali Zardari. Khar, 34, Pakistan's first woman foreign minister and also the youngest to occupy this key position, is expected to go More
430 people indicted by B'desh court for 2009 mutiny

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Dhaka, July 20:  A Bangladesh court today indicted 430 people, including a former BNP lawmaker and 411 rebel border guards for their  involvement in the 2009 bloody massacre at the BDR headquarters. The court started framing charges against the "main culprits" of  the rebellion that 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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