PM arriving Friday

To Review Internal Security, KP’s Rehabilitation

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Mar 2: Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is arriving in Jammu on a day long visit on Friday. This is the first visit of the Prime Minister to Jammu during his second term in office. Official sources told Greater Kashmir that internal security and rehabilitation of displaced families More

Allotment to start after inauguration

Jammu, Mar 2: After missing many deadlines, the Jagti Township established by the government for the rehabilitation of the Kashmiri Pandits living in camps would be formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on March 4. Sources said that a section of 2000 two-room tenements, constructed More

Militant killed in Tral encounter

KHALID GUL

Tral, Mar 2: A district commander of Jaish-i-Muhammad militant outfit was killed in an encounter with a joint party of police and soldiers in this south Kashmir area of Pulwama district, police and reports said on Wednesday. “Late last evening, a joint team of 42-RR along with paramilitary More

British envoys call on Malik

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Mar 2: Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik on Wednesday asked the British Government to use its good offices for impressing upon India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiris.Malik was interacting More

'OMAR’S REMARKS BIZARRE'

Srinagar. Mar 2: Terming the response of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to the imprisonment of 14 year old Faizan and other youngsters under Pubic Safety Act (PSA) as bizarre, opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today accused the chief minister of trying to discredit the established institutions More

Herath celebrated in Valley

Srinagar, Mar 2: Mahashivratri, known as Herath in Kashmir, was celebrated with religious fervor and devotion on Wednesday.Despite rainfall, scores of Hindus including Kashmiri Pandits thronged Hanuman Temple on the banks of River Jhelum in Amira Kadal here and offered Puja.Reports said the More

I’m impartial,unbiased: Speaker

‘PDP’s Behaviour Unfortunate’

Jammu, Mar 2: Day after Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti, alleged that Speaker of the Assembly, Muhammad Akbar Lone, was behaving like a “dictator”, the Speaker Wednesday said that he was impartial and unbiased. Talking to a local news gathering agency, Lone termed More

Pakistan Minority Affairs Minister Assassinated

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Mar 2: Pakistan's Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, who had sought changes in the controversial blasphemy law, was Wednesday assassinated in a gun attack here, the second top leader of the ruling PPP to be killed this year for demanding reform of the harsh statute. 42-year More

Hopeful of sustained engagement with India: Tehmina

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Mar 2: Pakistan is hopeful that the upcoming talks with India will lead to a "meaningful and sustained process of engagement" that will bridge the trust deficit between the two countries and help resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir.Reacting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh More

NHPC, PDC agree to pay water usage charges

Expecting ` 913 cr Per Annum: Taj

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Mar 2: Government of India-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) and other energy generating companies have agreed to pay the user charges for harnessing the Jammu and Kashmir’s water resources for power generation.  “The companies have agreed to pay the user charges More

Kashmir losing to Himachal on fishing tourism

No Effort By Fisheries Deptt To Bring Back Anglers

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Mar 2: Kashmir was once an angling paradise. Anglers from all over the world would visit Valley for fishing, helping earn livelihood for the people in the state. Now, because of the troubled situation of the past two decades followed by the J-K fisheries department's inability to attract More

Farooq, Omar bereaved

Jammu, Mar 2: Sheila Pitcher, sister-in-law of National Conference president and union minister Dr Farooq Abdullah passed away in Landon yesterday. The deceased is the maternal aunt of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah.Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah flew to London to More

One more spell of rains, snowfall Highway Closed

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, Mar 2: Rains lashed plains of the valley while the upper reaches received snowfall on Wednesday even as the 300-kilometre long Srinagar-Jammu highway was closed for vehicular movement this afternoon.Director Meteorology, Sonam Lotus, told Greater Kashmir that plains received light to More