‘Af-Pak turbulence to create ripples in JK’

AFSPA Revocation Detrimental: Lt Gen Hasnain

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Pattan, Mar 17: Day after Pentagon said that Indo-Pak peace was vital to stabilisation of situation in Afghanistan, Army’s Srinagar-based commander Thursday echoed similar concerns saying the turbulence in Afghanistan and Pakistan will have an impact on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.“India More

Core Group reviews situation

Srinagar, Mar 17: Lt Gen Hasnain, GOC 15 Corps and the Security Advisor to the state Government, chaired the Core Group meeting at Badamibagh cantonment here on Thursday. The meeting was attended by DGP Kuldeep Khoda, senior officers of Army, Police, CRPF, BSF, intelligence agencies and civil administration More

Hurriyat (M) refutes WikiLeaks exposé

Terms It Conspiracy Against Amalgam

Srinagar, Mar 17: The Hurriyat Conference (M) has strongly refuted the reports based on the disclosures of Wikileaks that one of its leaders supported the hanging of Parliament attack convict, Muhammad Afzal Guru.The conglomerate has termed the disclosures as a conspiracy to malign it and maintained More

High Court quashes KAS seniority lists

Petitioner Gets Justice After 28 Years

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Mar 17: In a significant judgment, the High Court has quashed the seniority lists of Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) officers, issued vide three government orders since 1998.In a case titled “Abdul Majid Wani versus state and others”, the Court of Justice Hasnain Massodi has quashed More

Govt releases new data on arrests

‘5255 Arrested During Summer Unrest, Only 264 In Custody’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 17: In a contradictory revelation, the state government Thursday said 5255 persons, including 799 students, were arrested across the state for allegedly resorting to `stone pelting’ during summer unrest.The government said these arrests were made between January 1, 2010 and February More

Govt to introduce Rehbar-e-Janglat

Jammu, Mar 17: Minister for Forest Mian Altaf Thursday said that the government has mooted a proposal to recruit forestry graduates and post-graduates under a new scheme of ‘Rehbar-e-Janglat’ to meet the manpower shortage in the department. He said the proposal has been sent to the planning department More

BJP, PP castigate interlocutors

RAJEEV SHARMA

Jammu, Mar 17: New Delhi-appointed interlocutors’ reported suggestion on changing the nomenclature of Chief Minister and Governor in the state rocked the Legislative Assembly Thursday with BJP and Panthers Party members staging a walkout over the issue.The Opposition members said that the interlocutors More

Stop seeing JK through security prism: Omar to US

Roemer Arrives On 2-Day Visit

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu/Srinagar, Mar 17: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said the US should stop looking at Jammu and Kashmir only through the “prism of security” and should identify ways for extending its expertise in capacity building, environment projects and other areas.“The US should stop looking at More

Yakjah?

Srinagar, Mar 17: The US ambassador is scheduled to meet the representatives of an ‘unheard of’ NGO Yakjah (Together), in Srinagar Friday.While none in Kashmir knows much about this NGO, according to its website, Yakjah Reconciliation and Development Network is a New Delhi based non-profit trust More

12 bunkers removed from city

‘De-Scaling Process On’

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Mar 17: The authorities have removed 12 more bunkers from different areas of the Srinagar city. The latest bunker-removal process was started Wednesday midnight which continued till Thursday morning.“All the major bunkers, including residential ones, were removed from the city during More

Notification issued for Phase-I

Jammu, Mar 17: The Chief Electoral Officer, BR Sharma Thursday issued notification for 1st phase of Panchayat Elections in the State scheduled for April 13.As per the notification in the first phase, elections will be held in Kupwara, Ganderbal (block Kangan), Budgam (block Budgam), Kulgam (block More

Parallel group to visit Valley

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Mar 17: The parallel political group on Kashmir comprising non-BJP, non-Congress political leaders and social activists would visit the Valley in first week of April.The 10-member delegation of Committee for Promoting Dialogue with Jammu and Kashmir would visit the Valley from April More