• TOP STORIES

BUDGET TODAY

Awaiting PC Approval, Plan Outlay;To Have Temporary Projections

FIRDOUS TAK

Jammu, Mar 6: Jammu and Kashmir Government will be presenting its annual budget for the fiscal 2011-12 on Monday but with the temporary projections of central assistance as it is yet to receive the formal approval of the Planning Commission for the proposed outlay. This will be the second budget with More

Supreme Court ruling shows the way

J&K SVC CONSTITUTION IN FOCUS

‘Appointment Of CVC, Commissioners Shouldn’t Be A Rehabilitation Package, Restricted To Civil Servants’

FAHEEM ASLAM Srinagar, Mar 6: While stakeholders have pinpointed a number of flaws in the newly constituted Jammu and Kashmir State Vigilance Commission Act 2010, which are yet to be plugged, the recent Supreme Court ruling quashing the appointment of the Central Vigilance More

Truth and Reconciliation Commission idea evokes mixed response

JAVAID MALIK

Srinagar, Mar 6: The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s idea to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Jammu and Kashmir to probe killings and cases of disappearances in the past 20 years has evoked a mixed reaction from various quarters.    Omar in the Legislative Assembly More

ANTI-NATIONAL PLAN: ASHOK KHAJURIA

‘There Can Be No Reconciliation With Those Seeking Azadi, Pak’

Srinagar, Mar 6: Senior Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Ashok Khajuria described Omar Abdullah’s idea to set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Jammu and Kashmir as “anti-national” and “threat to India’s security.” “I want to tell the Chief Minister that there can be no reconciliation More

CIC takes cognizance of archival mess

To Seek Report From Director Archives

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Mar 6: Armed with the provisions of the Right to Information Act, the first Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of Jammu and Kashmir, GR Sufi, is likely to seek a report from the Department of Archives on why Kashmir’s historical documents were not preserved in a proper manner.  More

Geelani has afterthought on India Today Conclave

Backs Out Citing NSA’s Presence

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 6: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Sunday declined to participate in the high profile conclave of the India Today Group, scheduled to be held on March 18 in New Delhi. He asserted that that he can’t share stage with officials of the Government of India More

Speaker calls BAC meet today

RAJEEV SHARMA

Jammu, Mar 6: The Speaker Legislative Assembly has called the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting on Monday morning to end the tussle over the Opposition’s demand of constitution of Joint House Committee (JHC) to probe “discriminatory” allotment of funds.Official sources told Greater Kashmir More



  • Opinion

‘Windows of Opportunity’

Kashmir Problem Is Not Intractable

PUNCHLINE BY Z. G. MUHAMMAD

It is a question that nudges me to think.  If the United States and other big powers remain bogged down with the emerging scenario in the Arab World for many more months to come does it mean that More


  • Op-Ed

LIBYA: From Legend To Psycho

Muammar Ghaddafi’s unique Afro-Arab living style and closed border policy hardly gave a chance to look deep into his forty one year rule

WORLD BY NAYEEMA AHMAD MAHJOOR

It was my childhood dream to visit the land of the ‘lion of the desert’ in Libya where the legendary hero of Guerrilla warfare, Omar Mukhtar was born. He fought for twenty years against the colonial power More



  • Letters

Expanding industries sector is welcome

As reported in media, the intention of the Government of India to expand the list of industries for infrastructure sector within a month is welcome. There is strong case for infrastructural development More


  • Editorial

Preserve for posterity

The report that the Kashmir Repository, located inside the Archives Department’s dilapidated building at Old Secretariat, Srinagar is in a shambles. That the prized possession of the state, Kashmir’s archival More


  • Kashmir

KU cracks whip on Pvt B.Ed Colleges

Surprise inspections on to ensure quality control, adherence to rules

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Mar 6: In a bid to ensure quality control in Private B.Ed Colleges in Kashmir, which are allegedly violating admission and other academic norms, the University of Kashmir has decided to launch More


  • Srinagar City

Shahr-e-Khaas silently losing ‘window of life’

FROM LIVING HERITAGE TO CALENDARS

ARIF SHAFI WANI

THE boom of constructing modern day glazed buildings and houses is not only gradually consuming heritage structures in the Old Srinagar City but also the traditional windows, which stand witness to its More



  • Jammu

PROF PUNJABI HONOURED

`Bridge gap to restore trust among KPs, Muslims’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 6: Gandhi Memorial College of Education Jammu (GMCEJ) has felicitated the Kashmir University vice-chancellor, Prof Riyaz Punjabi on being conferred with Padam Shree by the Government of India More


  • Briefs

Function today

Srinagar, Mar 6: Koor Chih Noor, a program on women empowerment organised by Space Communicationswill be held at SKICC at 1:30 PM today. People from different walks of life are scheduled to participate More


  • Business

'1/5th population in JK below poverty line'

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Mar 6: About one fifth of the population in J&K falls in Below Poverty Line (BPL) category, with about 98 per cent among them living in the rural areas, says the Economic Survey.  The ES More



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