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5 killed on highway
In 2 Days, 21 Die In Mishaps
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar/Jammu, May 7: In yet another road accident, five persons including four students died and three were injured in a road mishap on the Srinagar-Jammu highway on Saturday when the vehicle they were traveling in skidded off the road and fell into a 600-feet deep gorge at Dhamthal near Chenani More
Annual Plan 2011-12 nowhere in sight
JK Yet To Get Meeting Dates From PCI
SUMIT HAKHOO
Jammu, May 7: With Jammu and Kashmir almost half way through its `limited working season’, the annual plan for the current fiscal is nowhere in sight as the state is yet to get any indication from the Planning Commission of India (PCI) for the same.The state government has projected Rs 6600 crore More
US violated Pakistan’s sovereignty: Gilani
To Brief Parliament Today
PTI/AGENCIES
Islamabad, May 7: Amid a diplomatic row between Pakistan and the US over the secret operation that killed al- Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said Washington should not have violated his country's sovereignty to carry out the raid in Abbottabad."There was no More
NHPC to apply for license by Monday
Corporation Mulls Increase In Tariff To Augment Resources
Water Resources Regulation & Management Act
MUDDASIR ALISrinagar, May 7: With the deadline approaching for power generating companies to meet the requirements under a newly enacted law to continue their operations in Jammu and Kashmir, one of the major power producers, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) is More
China added new dimension to Kashmir issue: Mirwaiz
‘Seeks EU Investment In Economic, Environmental Projects’
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, May 7: Pitching for European Union investment in Kashmir, chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Saturday said the Chinese stand over Kashmir has added a new dimension to the Kashmir dispute.During his meeting with Josef Jenning, Director European Policy Centre in Brussels More
Encounters in Poonch
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Poonch, May 7: In a pre-dawn surgical operation, forces Saturday zeroed in on two militants holed up in a house in Poonch district.Acting on specific information about the presence of the militants in a house, forces and police laid cordon around the house before dawn in Mankot-Nar area of Poonch More
Sun and Snow
A view of glittering snowy mountainous pass of Zojilla on Srinagar-Leh highway captured by GK photo editor Habib Naqash.
Waiting for Darbar
Srinagar city getting a facelift ahead of Darbar Move. Mubashir Khan/GK
Video Conference
Senior separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Shabir Shah, Farooq Ahmed Dar and Javed Ahmed Mir addressed the Global Discourse on Kashmir through video conference from Srinagar on Wednesday. Muba
Fifth Global Discourse on Kashmir
OIC Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Abdullah A. Alim with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq , James Elles and Barrister Majid Tramboo at European parliament in Brussels on Wednesday.
Govt seeking dismissal of PIL: Malik
JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik addresses a news conference in Srinagar on Wednesday. Habib Naqash/GK
Srinagar-Leh highway open
After remaining closed for 5-months the strategic Srinagar-Leh Highway was thrown open for the vehicular traffic on Monday. Habib Naqash/GK
Sunsets in Dal Lake
GK lensman Aman Farooq captures scintillating view of Dal Lake, with Hari Parbat Fort in the background, as sun sets in Srinagar on Sunday.
Chaos, confusion prevail in GB Panth hospital
Attendants, accompanying ailing children, face immense hardships in Valley’s lone Children hospital, G B Panth, in Srinagar. Mubashir Khan/GK
Packaged Pic
A bird’s-eye view of Kohi-e-Sulaiman, Kohi-e-Maran and Chaar Chinari in Srinagar captured by GK lensman Habib Naqash on Friday.
- Opinion
Osama in Pakistan
What if Aiman-al-Zawahiri is caught in India?
WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE
This week it was all Osama. Choosing a subject other than this can't perhaps qualify as a column in a newspaper. Well, that never means to underrate the importance of other events and issues. But that More
- Op-Ed
God and Geronimo
Osama gone, let us begin afresh for a shared future
DATELINE SRINAGAR BY ARJIMAND HUSSAIN TALIB
Roughly two centuries ago, European explorers began their mission to capture ‘Osama bin Laden–I’ dead or alive on the American soil. That was the time when the real America – known as the United States More
- Kashmir
No differences with Rather, Sagar: Omar
Srinagar, May 7: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday dismissed the reports about having any differences with his cabinet colleagues Abdul Rahim Rather and Ali Muhammad Sagar. In an interview More
- Srinagar City
Experts pitch revival of Maharaj Gunj glory
INTACH proposes pilot project for Shahr-e-Khaas Jhelum banks
M HYDERI
Srinagar, May 7: Imagine historic Maharaj Gunj market in Shahr-e-Khaas getting back its glory with heritage buildings looking the same as it was around a century ago and you going there for shopping with More
- Jammu
Cross-voting fiasco; Cong intensifies campaign for early Municipal elections
RAJEEV SHARMA
Jammu, May 7: With the state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party struggling to recover from cross-voting shock, the ruling coalition partner, Congress is desperate to make optimum benefit out of the prevailing More
- Briefs
CSK organises camp
Srinagar: The Cancer Society of Kashmir in collaboration with the Department of Gastroenterology Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Soura organized a free screening endoscopy camp at Bandipora More
- Business
‘Gold coins being sold at exorbitant prices in Valley’
Against Rs 17600, consumer shells out Rs 20500/coin
GK BUSINESS REPORTER
Srinagar, May 7: The Kashmir Gold Dealers and Workers’ Association (GDWA) today made a startling revelation saying that gold coins in the Valley were being sold at “exorbitantly higher prices.” General More
- News
Osama was living in Pak since 2003: Report
REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI
Islamabad, May 7: Trying to piece together Osama bin Laden's life prior to the US raid that killed him, Pakistani sleuths Saturday focussed on Haripur district in the country's northwest after his Yemeni More




