- TOP STORIES
'Infiltration won’t affect tourist inflow'
Separatists Trying To Disturb Peace In Kashmir: Omar
KHALID GUL
Pahalgam, May 29: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday said that infiltration from other side of the Line of Control (LoC) was a routine issue and it won’t have any bearing on the tourist inflow. “The infiltration has been going on every year and I don’t think it is going to affect the ongoing More
NAVLAKHA DEPORTED
Farooq Abdullah Supports Detention
GKNN/PTI
Srinagar, May 29: Noted human rights activist Guatam Navlakha was deported from Valley on Sunday.Navlakha, who was stopped at the Srinagar Airport by police on his arrival from New Delhi on Saturday, was sent back this afternoon.“After detaining me at the airport, I was kept at Humhama Police More
Eventualities expose Govt’s ‘Disastrous’ Management
‘During Leh Cloudburst, JK Lacked Blankets, I/V Drip Sets’
FAHEEM ASLAM
Srinagar, May 29: Visits by politicians notwithstanding, the Jammu and Kashmir government has literally nothing substantial to offer in times of different eventualities, thus exposing its so-called ‘disaster management plans.’ And this failure to rescue people or provide immediate relief to affected More
UGC sanctions ` 85 cr for KU campuses
Prof Punjabi Hailed For Ensuring Release Of Development Grant
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, May 29: In a significant development, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has sanctioned Rs 85 crores for development of the main campus of the University of Kashmir and also its satellite campuses at Anantnag (Islamabad) and Baramulla. According to the varsity officials, it More
HC terminates judge for ‘misconduct’
‘Judicial Officers Have Divine Job To Discharge’
SAMAAN LATEEF
Srinagar, May 29: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir has upheld the termination order of a judge who was dismissed from service on charges of misconduct, breach of judicial discipline, misuse of authority and dereliction of duty. Justice Yaqboob Mir upheld the termination of sub-judge Vijay More
Rajasthan embraces Dal model for conservation of lakes
6-Member Team In Sgr To Examine Measures
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Srinagar, May 29: In a significant development, the Government of Rajasthan is embracing the famous Dal Lake in Srinagar as a model for conservation of its lakes which are confronted with multiple problems including pollution and siltation. Officials said on the recommendation by the Ministry More
Kashmir sans Press Club
Building Identified: Government
UMER MAQBOOL
Srinagar, May 29: Despite impressive presence of journalists in Kashmir, the successive regimes in Jammu and Kashmir have failed to set-up a Press Club in the Valley. In absence of the facility, journalists face immense inconvenience to undertake and cover activities of their professional More
Indo-Pak defence secretaries meet today
To Discuss Siachen
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, May 29: After a gap of three years, defence secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan on the long-pending Siachen issue will kick off here on Monday."Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar will lead the Indian delegation during the two-day talks," a Defence Ministry official said, adding More
REAPING REWARDS
Kashmiri growers pluck strawberry in an orchard at Hazratbal on Srinagar outskirts on Sunday. Aman Farooq/GK
Shaking hands
3-member British delegation called on JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik in Srinagar on Saturday.
'Save cross LoC trade'
Cross LoC traders stage a protest against government’s “indifferent attitude” in Srinagar on Saturday. Mubashir Khan/GK
HDFC bank in Ganderbal
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah inaugurates a branch of HDFC bank at Ganderbal, his own constituency, on Saturday. Mubashir Khan/GK
Caged……....
Police present senior separatist leaders Masrat Alam Bhat and Mushtaq-ul- Islam in a Srinagar court on Friday. Mubashir Khan/GK
Last rites…..
People offer funeral prayers of two militants at Kellar in south Kashmir on Friday. The duo was killed in a gunfight with forces on Thursday. Azan/GK
Special prayers
Relatives of Shakir Ahmed Bhat, who drowned in river Jehlum last week, offer special prayers in Srinagar on Thursday. Shakir’s body has not been retrieved yet from the river. Mubashir Khan/GK
We protest…..
Members of the Handicapped Association stage a hunger strike against government’s ‘indifferent attitude’ in Srinagar on Wednesday. Habib Naqash/GK
Picture Perfect
GK Photo Editor Habib Naqash captures a crow flying past full moon.
Sonia lays foundation stone of JK’s first cable-stayed bridge
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah with Union Ministers AK Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Farooq Abdullah and Pallam Raju at Basohli in Kathua on Monday.
Bountiful Beauty
Tourists enjoy horse ride in a scenic valley amid snow-clad mountains at the world famous heli-ski resort of Sonamarg. Citizen Journalist/ Mir Muneeb
- Opinion
Junagarh and Kashmir
Are there any parallels to be explored?
FLASHBACK BY ABDUL MAJID ZARGAR
The political history of Junagarh has a lot of resemblance and relevance to Kashmir problem. It, therefore, deserves to be told.At the time of Partition in 1947, Junagarh State was located at the More
- Op-Ed
Change the name and see the effect
Interlocutors and separatists
Though nothing will change if separatists are called liberationists, but it will have a positive bearing on the very understanding of Kashmir problem. History is in your support if you reframe the very More
- Letters
In response to Riyaz Ahmad's Truth and Reconciliation
I commend Riyaz Ahmad for writing an honest and objective commentary about terms of endearment between Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims in his thought provoking piece titled, “Truth and Reconciliation” (GK More
- Editorial
Headless SKIMS
For the past one month SKIMS has again been in the news and as ill luck would have it, for the wrong reasons. This time around the doctors or the paramedics are not the reason but it is the lackadaisical More
- Kashmir
After 10-days,driver, conductor fish out Shakir’s body
WASIM KHALID
Srinagar, May 29: The body of Shakir Bhat, 15, who drowned in river Jehlum 10-days ago, was fished out on Sunday. It was a driver and a conductor of a mini bus who fished the body near the bridge More
- Srinagar City
City streetlighting is Flop Show
6 YEARS ON SMC PLAYING JASPAL BHATTI, ASKING MECHANICAL ENGINEERS TO DO ELECTRICAL WORK
M HYDERI
Srinagar, May 29: Believe it or not, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation has been looking after the City streetlights for the past nearly a decade but without any expertise. Reasons: the civic body has More
- Jammu
Girl ends life after police ‘harassment’
GK NEWS NETWORK
Doda, May 29: In yet another incident of alleged police harassment, a young female student committed suicide by jumping into Chenab in Pul Doda area on Sunday. The deceased was a B.Ed student of More
- Briefs
Parliament panel in Jammu
Jammu, May 29: A Parliamentary panel today held a meeting with top state government officers here to review the progress of various centrally-sponsored schemes in Jammu and Kashmir. Soon after its More
- Business
‘Wildlife authorities annoy Pashmina exporters at Delhi Airport’
KCCI registers protest with Jairam Ramesh
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, May 29: President Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Nazir Ahmad Dar has alleged that Pashmina exporters from Kashmir were being harassed by Wildlife Authorities at Delhi airport More
- News
Pak nukes very safe: A Q Khan
Islamabad, May 29: Pakistan’s nuclear scientist A Q Khan has said the Taliban and external forces cannot seize Pakistan's nuclear weapons as they are "highly secured" and only a handful of people know More




