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'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




  • 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




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