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Melee in Assembly; PDP MLA, Marshals injured

Speaker Reserves Decision on Adjournment Motion

RAJEEV SHARMA

Jammu, Mar 1: Uproar and chaos on Tuesday prevailed in the Legislative Assembly after main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislators trooped into the well, demanding suspension of business to discuss the prevailing situation in Kashmir valley. PDP MLA from Darhal, Choudhary Zulfikar received More

Govt attitude dictatorial: Mehbooba

‘Speaker Can’t Act Like Gaddafi’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 1: Claiming that the situation in Kashmir has deteriorated alarmingly, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti accused the state government of acting in a “dictatorial manner” by forcibly trying to silence the opposition and not allowing them to raise the crucial issues facing the people of the state More

PDP has one point agenda: Minister

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Mar 1: Accusing the Peoples Democratic Party of playing the emotional card, senior National Conference leader and Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Muhammad Sagar on Tuesday said that the opposition party does not want to miss even a single opportunity to target the government and More

PDP,NPP boycott Council

SYED AMJAD SHAH

Jammu, Mar 1: Three PDP members and a lone National Panthers Party member Tuesday boycotted the proceedings of the Upper House “to protest the killing of innocent civilians in Kashmir valley.”Immediately after deputy chairman Arvinder Singh Micky took his seat and proceedings in the upper house More

'Dulhasti, Baghliar to generate ` 331 cr'

Jammu, Mar 1: Jammu and Kashmir government Tuesday said that Rs 331.70 crore would be generated as revenue from two hydro electric power projects of Dulhasti and Baghliar.Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Taj Mohi-ud-Din informed the legislative council that Dulhasti and Baghliar under More

Family mourns Showkat’s death

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Mar 1: Deeply engrossed in their childhood, Sadaf Zehra, Dawood and Zoorin Zehra don’t know that they have lost their father to pernicious Kashmir tragedy. Their father Showkat Ali Khan, wounded in a grenade explosion in Batamaloo Monday evening, lost his battle for life at SKIMS late night More

Wullar Development Authority still on papers

Delay Threatens Water Body

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Mar 1: While Asia’s largest freshwater lake, Wullar, in north Kashmir continues to be marred by extensive pollution and encroachments, the inordinate delay in constitution of a separate authority and restoration measures is pushing the lake towards extinction. As the Government More

Geelani detained at Delhi Airport

Released After 3-Hour Questioning

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Mar 1: A special team of Delhi Police detained the Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani at the New Delhi Airport on Tuesday when he was on way to board a flight to Srinagar. The veteran leader was released after ‘questioning’ at Lodhi Road Police Station for three hours More

CM contests Faizan’s date of birth

‘I’ve Seen Too Many Fake Certificates’

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, Mar 1: A day after an Islamabad (Anantnag) family alleged that their minor son was detained under the Public Safety Act and kept under detention with hard core criminals at Kotbilwal Jail Jammu, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the best way to determine his age was to conduct a medical More

Shivratri today

Governor, CM greet people

Jammu, Mar 1: Mahashivratri, celebrated as Hairath by Kashmiri Pandits is being celebrated with devotion and religious fervour across the State on Wednesday.Mahashivratri or Shivaratri (Great Night of Shiva or Night of Shiva) is a festival celebrated every year on the 13th night/14th day in the More

Court grants bail to Mian Qayoom

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 1: Additional Sessions Judge Jammu GK Pandita on Tuesday granted bail to President of the Kashmir Bar Association, Mian Abdul Qayoom in one of the cases, registered against him.While granting bail to Qayoom, Additional Sessions Judge Jammu GK Pandita directed the police to release him More



  • Opinion

Restating the Solution

Juggling various settlement proposals over the years we have lost the clarity of conflict in Kashmir

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

How do we define a Kashmir solution. What is the desired outcome? I think it is a sense in Kashmir that there is no longer a problem about the state. This would mean that the majority of the population More


  • Op-Ed

Private Practice: To Ban it or Not

IT IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS THAT. THERE ARE RINGS TO THIS PROBLEM THAT NEED TO BE UNDERSTOOD FIRST BEFORE A DECISION IS TAKEN. DR M MUZAFFAR MIR SPREADS OUT THE SUBJECT TO GIVE US A LOOK THROUGH THE THICK AND THIN OF IT.

The issue of private practice by doctors working in government hospitals (particularly in SKIMS) has been a subject of discussions for almost last two decades. People of all walks of life chip in with More



  • Letters

Save Gulmarg from the menace of Polythene

Gulmarg is not only a summer tourist destination but an important Skiing destination known all over the world. With the installation of Gondola lifts and revival of Heli-Skiing, the tourists are loving More


  • Editorial

Left Out

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee while presenting budget proposals for 2011-12 in the Lok Sabha on Monday sought to steer clear of many shrill signposts. Although in regard to the direct tax proposals More


  • Kashmir

‘CPRF, policemen being trained to handle protests’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Mar 1: The Special Director General of CRPF (J&K zone), Anirudh Uppal on Tuesday  said that paramilitary CRPF along with policemen were undergoing training to control protests and mob More


  • Srinagar City

Govt wakes up to save environment, fight pollution

Div Comm constitutes team to review working of automobile workshops, check polythene entry at Lower Munda

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Mar 1: Finally, the administration on Tuesday woke-up to save environment from pollution through a multi pronged strategy of putting check on use of polythene bags and also review the “haphazard More



  • Jammu

6 get death penalty after 15 yrs of trial

Brutal murder shows animal instinct of accused: Court

ANOOP PATHAK

Kathua, Mar 1: Fifteen years after broad day light murder of a royalty contractor, six persons were awarded death penalty by the Principal Sessions Judge Kathua, here on Monday. This will be for the More


  • News in Brief

Zafar shifted from JIC

Srinagar, Mar 1: The senior leader of Hurriyat (M) and Chairman of Salvation Movement Zafar Akbar Bhat has been shifted from JIC Srinagar to Police Station Sadder.Zafar was arrested last June under PSA More


  • Business

Telcos to pitch for SMS ban revocation

Aircel joins 3-G club in Valley

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Mar 1: With market pressure telling on them, the mobile service providers in J&K are mulling to approach state government for lifting of ban on Short Messaging Service. The service providers More


  • News

Godhra verdict: Death for 11, life sentence for 20

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Ahmedabad, Mar 1: Nine years after the Godhra train carnage, 11 people were today sentenced to death and 20 awarded life imprisonment by a special court here for the 2002 incident that left 59 'karsevaks More



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