Truth and Reconciliation

Kashmiri Muslims and pandits are trying to come to terms with the divide between them

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

After a while, Kashmiri pandit migration is back in focus. This  time, the mood is more introspective and less bitter. This is evident in the movie I Am by the director Sanjay Suri, himself a Kashmiri pandit whose father was killed by the gunmen in 1990. The movie has triggered fresh debate about More
Life matters

Of fake encounters and the Supreme Court verdict

ANALYSIS By Dr.Mirza Ashraf Beg

Recently Supreme Court of India comprising justice Markandey and Justice Giyan Sudha Misra in their judgment pronounced fake encounters ‘if proved’ should be treated as rarest of rare cases and the offending police men involved sent to the gallows. The highlights of the verdict read as, ‘fake encounters More
  • Kashmir

GOVT MULLS ZOO IN SRINAGAR

MIAN ALTAF CHAIRS HIGH LEVEL MEET

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 24: The Forest Minister Mian Altaf on Tuesday said that   Government is contemplating to set up a zoo in Srinagar for which suitable land is being identified. An official spokesman More


  • Srinagar City

PHE starts drive against potable water misuse

Raids residential houses, confiscates gardening pipes, boosters

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, May 24: In a bid to prevent misuse of potable water, the Public Health Engineering Department on Tuesday started a drive against the offenders. The PHE officials in a statement said: “The More



  • Jammu

Taj stresses for rationalization of water supply

Jammu, May 24: Minister for Public Health Engineering (PHE), and Irrigation and Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din on Tuesday directed the PHE authorities to increase the daily pumping duration for meeting More


  • Briefs

11th phase of Panchayat polls today

Srinagar, May 24: Polling for the eleventh phase of Panchayat elections would be held in ten blocks in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.     In Kashmir Valley four blocks going to polls More


  • Business

Fix financial yr for JK from Jan-Dec

‘Or create lapse fund a/c’

FCIK TELLS PLANNING COMMISSION

GK BUSINESS REPORTERSrinagar, May 24: Valley’s apex industrial body, the Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir today strongly suggested to the Planning Commission to “fix the plan year for J&K from More


  • News

10-12 militants attacked our base: Pak Navy

REZAUL H LASKAR

Islamabad, May 24: A complaint registered with police by the Pakistan Navy on the assault on a naval airbase said the attack was carried out by 10-12 militants, contradicting Interior Minister Rehman Malik More


ADD
Designed Developed and Maintaned By Imobisoft Ltd /Algosol Software Solutions