We’re here to learn: Google Team

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, Nov 3: The eight member Google Team presently touring the Valley on Thursday said that it was here to learn and build businesses.  “We are not here to invest we are here to learn how we can create and build businesses,” Principal, New Business Development from Google, USA Debu Pukayastha More

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MEDIA NOT ALLOWED

Srinagar, Nov 3: The organizers of the event 'g|kashmir' Thursday prevented reporters from interacting with the Google team at SKICC here. Scribes who reached the venue were surprised to know the Google Team’s press conference had been called off.  Sources said, the news conference More

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Yasin Malik not on hit list: LeT

‘HE IS A BIG LEADER, WE RESPECT HIM’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 3: Lashkar-e-Toiba on Thursday ridiculed the police claim that Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Muhammad Yasin Malik was on the outfit’s hit list. “Police claim that Malik is on our hit list is totally baseless and concocted. Yasin Malik is a big leader and we More

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CHRI, JKRTIM hold seminar

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar Nov 3: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international NGO based in New Delhi in association with J&K RTI Movement organised a workshop “Right to Information and the Police in J&K.”  Addressing the gathering, Navaz Kotwal, Project Coordinator of Police Reforms More

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5 yrs on, construction of Nowgam PHC still incomplete

SUHAIL AJMAL

Nowgam (Bandipora), Nov 3: Notwithstanding the tall claims of the government about fast infrastructure development in the rural areas, the construction of the Primary Health Centre at Nowgam in Sumbal town here is still incomplete, five years after the work was started on it.   According More

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PDP alleges bungling in solar lights distribution

Seeks probe

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 3: The People’s Democratic Party Thursday called for a probe in alleged bungling in the distribution of solar lights in Jammu and Kashmir. “The government assistance to the people was handed out as personal favours to beneficiaries by the National Conference. This trend must More

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Traffic snarls on roads make travel irksome: Senior citizens

Srinagar, Nov 3: Srinagar Senior Citizens Forum has expressed serious concern over the traffic mismanagement in whole Valley in general and Srinagar city in particular, urging the traffic authorities to take effective steps for regulation of traffic movement.  “Overloading in minibuses and frequent More

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Man killed,2 hurt in road mishaps

Srinagar, Nov 3: A man was killed and two others injured in different road accidents across the Kashmir. According to police spokesman, a tipper bearing registration number (JK01K-8683) hit and critically injured a person, Muhammad Yousuf Shah son of Mukhta Shah of Handi, Kupwara near Athwajan More

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Their ancestor migrated to save his family from ‘tyrannies’ of Dogra rulers

200 years after, they continue to face same fate

ZUBAIR MUHAMMAD

Weaven, (Bandipore), Nov 3: The founder of this north Kashmir village, 28, kms from main town, settled here to escape from “tyrannies” of Dogra rulers, but two centuries down the line his predecessors continue to face what they term “tyrannies from administration.”  More than 300 souls living More

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Hurriyat (M) panel discuss restructuring

Srinagar, Nov 3: The panel formed by Hurriyat (M) on Thursday discussed the proposals submitted by its constituents for the amalgam’s restructuring.  Sources, told Greater Kashmir five member committee headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, with others comprising Shabir Ahmad Shah, Prof Abdul Gani Bhat More

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Urs of Shah-e-Hamdan(RA) observed with religious fervor

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, Nov 3: The annual Urs of Hazat Meer Syed Ali Hamdani (RA) popularly known as Shah-e-Hamdani was observed at Khanqah Moula in Shahr-e-Khaas on Thursday with religious fervor and enthusiasm. The Urs was organized by J&K Waqaf Board. Thousands of devotees thronged the shrine where More

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UECA for extension of tender date

Srinagar, Nov 3: United Electrical Contractors Association (UECA) Kashmir Wednesday threatened to seek judicial intervention if the Power Development Department did not consider their plea to extend date for tenders to different works. In a statement issued today the Association said Superintendent More

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Elections for 4 MLC seats soon

Panchs, Sarpanchs To Form Electoral College

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Nov 3: After more than three decades, Jammu and Kashmir is preparing to hold elections to four reserved seats of the Upper House lying vacant in the absence of Panchayats in the state. The four seats of the Legislative Council to be filled through voting by the Electoral College More

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Ulema aghast over ‘conversions’

Srinagar, Nov 3: Renowned religious scholars have expressed concerned over the alleged conversion of Muslim youth to Christianity. In a statement, Fayaz Ahmad Zaroo of Darul-Uloom Raheemiyyah Bandipora said an emergency meeting of renowned scholars was called under the aegis of Raabitah Madaaris More

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Major Purushottam remembered

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 3: A solemn and poignant ceremony was held at Badami Bagh Cantonment where office bearers of the Public Relations Office of Ministry of Defence and select media persons paid floral tributes to Major P Purushottam and his colleagues who were killed in a fidayeen attack on this day 12 More

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HC asks Govt to give Rs 3 lakh compensation to victim’s family

CUSTODIAL KILLING

D A RASHID

Srinagar, Nov 3: High Court has awarded a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to the family of late Muhammad Sadiq Kasana of Arhama Ganderbal, killed allegedly by the forces in custody in 2000. The Court also asked the government to consider the case of compassionate appointment to widow of the deceased under More

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Wagoora inhabitants demand tehsil status

Srinagar, Nov 3: Inhabitants of Wagoora, a centrally located village in Sangrama constituency have appealed the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to accord tehsil status to it.   A delegation from the area claimed that the village qualifies all the requisite norms set by the government. < More

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