`We are here to streamline the system'

ACROSS THE TABLE

Regional Transport Officer Kashmir, Muhammad Anees talks to GK Correspondent Moazum Muhammad about traffic irregularities and other associated issues

Brief us about Motor Vehicle Act? Does it empower you to act against offenders?This act confers upon us the powers to conduct inspection, check the fitness of vehicles and fine the violators. Through this act we collect road taxes and hence are tax collecting authority. It empowers More
PHYTOREMIDIATION - Wastewater Management

Safeguarding Environment

Newer methods of ecological engineering can go a long way in safeguarding the environment, writes Prof. (Dr) MRD Kundangar

The Valley of Kashmir is known for its serene waters but this does not seem to hold true to a large extent now. Until recently the same water was a free commodity available to all but now due to a large scale pollution of our water bodies the drinking water has become so precious that it is now not More
Exploring lives

LITERATURE

The book is the poet's intuitive understanding of what to do with emotions, says K. Srilata.

The poems in Sampurna Chattarji's Absent Muses dexterously balance the spirit of intellectual inquiry and dialogue with the impulse to emote. The poet's eye is well-trained, its gaze wide and its focus sharp and narrow dwelling on the drama that inheres in small things. The voice is compelling, impossible More
  • Kashmir

Kashmir Committee meets Nayeem, Shah, Mir ors

‘SEPARATISTS FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF K-ISSUE’

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, June 3: The Kashmir Committee on Friday met various separatist leaders here and discussed the Kashmir issue threadbare. Continuing their mission Kashmir, the four member panel on second More


  • Srinagar City

2 decades on, Cheap Market shopkeepers await rehabilitation

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, June 3: In mid ‘90s government removed shops from a market, popularly known as Cheap Market, at Jehangir Chowk, with an assurance that the affected would be relocated. Around two decades on, More



  • Jammu

‘AIDS spreading in rural areas’

Cultural Groups, NGOs To Launch Awareness Campaign

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, June 3: With the detection of increasing number of AIDS cases from rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir, the Government has decided to involve cultural organizations and theatre groups to create awareness More


  • Briefs

Dr Showkat Zargar assumes charge

Srinagar, June 3: Prof. (Dr) Showkat Ali Zargar today assumed the charge as director, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura.  In a communiqué, SKIMS said, Prof. Showkat Ali Zargar More


  • Business

‘Institutional mechanism essential for Islamic banking’

Interest-fee transactions gaining popularity at rapid pace: VC KU

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, June 3: Vice chancellor, Kashmir University, Prof Talat Ahmad today said the Islamic banking and insurance has registered a 10 to 15 per cent annual growth during last decade. He said the More


  • News

Prince Barkat dies in road accident

Gilgit/Muzaffarabad, June 3: Prince Barkat Ali, the Meer Sahib of Nagar, died in a road accident near Karbala earlier this week. He was laid to rest at Najaf. The deceased had taken up diplomatic profession More


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