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Omar asks Pakistan to engage with mainstream

‘Separatists Are Not The Only Leaders In JK’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 28: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said Pakistan will have to talk to mainstream politicians also if the leadership of Jammu and Kashmir is to be included in dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad for resolution of Kashmir issue.“If they want inclusion of Kashmiri leadership More

Change Kashmir policy: Farooq to Islamabad

Jaisalmer, July 28: Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday advised Pakistan to change its stance on Kashmir as it has been a part of India since 1947 and would always remain so. He was reacting to reports of Kashmir separatists urging More

NC-PDP in battle-gear

Panchayat Conference A Farce: NC; Govt Scared Of Democratic Activity: PDP

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, July 28: With the mainstream political activity gaining momentum, the politics between the arch-rivals ruling National Conference and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party seems to be at all time high. And at the heart of this politics are the recently held Panchayat polls in Jammu and More

HC dismisses PIL on power projects

Asks Petitioners To Approach Govt

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, July 28: The High Court on Thursday disposed off a Public Interest Litigation by a civil society group seeking judicial intervention for return of two major power projects from National Hydroelectric Power Corporation to Jammu and Kashmir. However, the court asked the petitioners to take More

Dialogue to continue without pause: Pak

Dr Singh Keen To Resolve Kashmir: Hina

Lahore, July 28: Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that dialogue process between Pakistan and India should continue without any pause as breakthrough in talks was in Islamabad’s interest, Geo News reported on Thursday.Addressing a press conference on her return from India, the More

Headway in Kashmir resolution: Mufti

‘It's Not Stone-Pelting Problem’

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, July 28: Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron and former Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed Thursday said a “comprehensive roadmap” is being worked out between India and Pakistan to resolve Kashmir and he could “see light at the end of the tunnel.”“The (Kashmir) issue is More

Youth shot dead in Sopore

Srinagar, July 28: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a youth in Sopore town of north Kashmir, police said today.Bullet-riddled body of 28-year-old Muhammad Ashraf was recovered by police near Krankshivan colony, 55 kms from here this morning, a police spokesman said.The spokesman said Ashraf, a resident More

Rana hospitalized, stable

Srinagar, July 28: Political Advisor to Chief Minister, Devender Rana was hospitalised Wednesday evening following some complications.Rana was admitted in Medical Unit-III of SMHS hospital, here as a case of Urosepsis (Urinary Tract Infection), doctors said.According to Prof Muneer Masoodi, Medical More



  • Opinion

The burden of being contractual

Where are they who felt so `concerned' about students losing their precious time. With contractual lecturers on strike and government showing no interest in meeting their genuine demands, poor students suffer the most. Who cares?

COMMENT BY HASSAN ZAINAGIREE

Since June 27, college contractual lecturers have gone on an indefinite strike as government did not deliver on the assurances and promises it made with them. The strike has severely affected the class More


  • Op-Ed

Remembering Mirza Muhammad Afzal Beg

In response to an article published in Greater Kashmir on July 16

FEEDBACK BY MUNSHI GHULAM HASSAN

Mirza Muhammad Afzal Beg after resigning from the cabinet headed by R.C.Kak in the year 1945 in league with Bakshi Ghulam Muhammad negotiated with Chowdhry Ghulam Abbas to merge National Conference with More



  • Letters

People's failure is actually the failure of leadership

“In 2008 while entire Kashmir was on the road,” said Hurriyat Conference (G) Chairman SAS Geelani while releasing his autobiography, “demanding Azadi through summer; in winter the same people came out More


  • Friday Focus

The Meaning and Scope of Dhikr

PROF G R MALIK

In Islam dhikr signifies a continuous contact with the Absolute Reality, Allah (SWT) – a contact which involves the whole being of man – body, mind and especially the soul. It has been inseparably interwoven More


  • Business

RBI extends 'credit relaxation' to borrowers in JK

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 28: The Reserve Bank of India has extended the period of “concessions/credit relaxations” to borrowers in J&K up to March 31, 2012. The apex bank in a notification said: "It has More


  • Kashmir

Give me peace to resolve all issues: Omar to people

Advocates strengthening of cross LoC trade

GK NEWS NETWORK

Wadipora (Chadoora), July 28: Terming peace imperative to address political issues and work out an amicable solution, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday appealed the people to help maintain tranquillity More


  • Srinagar City

‘STAFF-STARVED’ TRAFFIC POLICE CRAVES FOR WORKFORCE EXPANSION

Against requirement of 1000 cops, mere 250 manage City rush of 4 lakh vehicles

M HYDERI

Srinagar, July 28: Even though traffic mess is taking “serious proportions” with gridlocks and other mismanagement becoming almost a routine on the City roads, the coalition government has seemingly failed More



  • Jammu

Union HRD ministry mulls interim V-C

Former Bureaucrat Tipped

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY - JAMMU

GK NEWS NETWORKJammu, July 28: Union Human Resource Ministry is likely to appoint a former bureaucrat from Jammu and Kashmir as the first Vice-Chancellor of Central University Jammu, which has remained More


  • South Asia

BBC man among 21 killed in Afghan attacks

Kandahar, July 28: Taliban bomb and gun attacks on an official's compound and a militia base in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan today killed 21 people, including a local BBC reporter. Five More


  • National

Cabinet nod for Lokpal Bill; PM, judiciary out of purview

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 28: The Union Cabinet today cleared the much-debated Lokpal Bill keeping the office of the Prime Minister outside its purview notwithstanding incumbent Manmohan Singh's insistence on subjecting More


  • World

New Al-Qaeda chief praises Syrian protesters

Cairo, July 28: Al-Qaida’s new leader praised Syrian protesters seeking to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad while trying to portray the uprising as an Islamic battle against American and Israeli More



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