America and Al-Qaeda

One path now leads to the Arab Spring. Better both take that

DATELINE SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

Dust is settling down in Kashmir’s western neighbourhood. The bravado phase seems slowly overtaken by reason and reflection. Sabre rattling is less intense. All this is a welcome change. The grim irony, however, is that the aftershocks of the Abbottabad operation are far from over. They will clearly More
Reclaiming Kashmir’s Centrality

The core issues of Kashmir will be submerged and eventually forgotten

STATECRAFT By Happymon Jacob

Kashmir conflict is increasingly becoming a multi-layered and complicated one. Apart from the indigenous anti-India uprising that Kashmir has witnessed for the last many decades, more noticeably in the last two decades, there is an equally important external – read Pakistan – dimension to the conflict More
“Artistic” Madness

Is art meant to bring a sense of distaste and revulsion or otherwise?

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

Gone are the days when the artist, Maqbool Fida Hussain, was in a trance, overwhelmed by her so-called charisma, yelling eureka, eureka! Brushes were running like rats and colours changed like chameleons on his canvas. An odyssey of ‘love and obsession’ was created when he painted her as Maneka with More
Health guard

A stitch in time saves nine

WHATS UP BY SAJAD BAZAZ

Health is wealth. This adage needs no elaboration. It is the state of health which forms the basis of our fortunes and misfortunes. God forbid, when you face serious and life-threatening illness, the situation becomes traumatic. Everything else you are worrying about in life suddenly becomes unimportant More
  • Kashmir

5 die, 24 hurt in road mishaps

Srinagar, May 21: Five persons were killed and 24 others injured in different road mishaps in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.  Police said two persons identified as Muhammad Ashraf and Muhammad Rafiq More


  • Srinagar City

Biscoe boy’s drowning exposes River Police again

COPS NEVER RESCUED ANYONE ALIVE FROM JHELUM; LACK SCUBA DIVERS, USE ‘ARCHIAC’ TECHNIQUES

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, May 21: While the Biscoe boy Muhammad Shakir Bhat is yet to be fished out from Jhelum, the drowning incident once again brings the alleged inefficiency of River Police under sharp criticism. & More



  • Jammu

Arrangements finalized for Sonia’s visit

GK NEWS NETWORK

Kathua, May 21: Union Minister of State for Defence Pallam Raju today chaired a high level meeting of the Army and other security agencies to review the security arrangements for stone laying ceremony More


  • Briefs

Bears on prowl in Kangan

SHEIKH NAZIR

Kangan, May 21: A bear attacked and injured a man at Gujarpati Preng, five kms from here on Saturday.    Reports said Haji Habib-ullah Kasana was attacked and injured by bear in his maize More


  • Business

Govt has failed farmers: PDP

Says NC bartered J&K’s resources

GK NEWS NETWORK

R S Pura, May 21: President, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti today said the NC-led coalition government has failed to address the problems the farming community faces in J&K. Addressing More


  • News

NRKs PAY TRIBUTES TO MIRWAIZ, LONE

‘UNITY KEY TO SUCCESS’

NISAR THOKER

Islamabad, May 21: Non Resident Kashmiri (NRK)leaders on Saturday paid rich tributes to late Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone at a seminar organized by Hurriyat (M) here.    & More


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