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Supreme Court asks Centre to clear stand

AFSPA REVOCATION ROW

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Nov 4: The Supreme Court Friday granted the Centre three weeks to spell out its stand on the extent of immunity enjoyed by Army personnel under the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and other laws for fake encounter killings.The bench passed the direction on CBI More

UHQ meeting on November 9

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Nov 4: A crucial meeting of the Unified Headquarters is being held in Jammu on November 9 in the backdrop of raging controversy over the announcement made by chief minister Omar Abdullah last month regarding partial revocation of controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the More

Army’s objection unjustified: Mirwaiz

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Nov 4: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said Army opposition to withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some areas of Jammu and Kashmir was not justified. Mirwaiz minced no words in accusing New Delhi of trying to settle non-locals in J More

Revocation through consensus: Prof Soz

JAVAID MALIK

Srinagar, Nov 4: A day after Lieutenant General KT Parnaik, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Northern Command said the time was not ripe to revoke Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from any part of Jammu and Kashmir, the Pradesh Congress Committee Chief (JKPCC) Prof Saifuddin Soz Friday said More

Only Army Chief’s view matters: Kamaal

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Nov 4: Day after Army’s General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Northern Command Lieutenant General KT Parnaik came out against withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the peaceful areas of Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference spokesman and additional general secretary More

HAJJ TODAY

2.5 Million Pilgrims Gather At Mount Arafat

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jeddah, Nov 4: More than 2.5 million Muslims have arrived in the holy city of Makkah for Hajj, world’s largest annual human assembly, which peaks on Saturday as pilgrims gather in the plains of Mount Arafat.According to reports, 1.25 lakh Indians have arrived in Saudi Arabia as on Thursday, to More

Snowfall in upper reaches, rains make Valley shiver

Pleasant Weather Forecast On Eid

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Nov 4: A blanket of snow covered slopes of ski resort Gulmarg in North Kashmir on Friday while plains received moderate to heavy rainfall, signaling arrival of winter.While change in the weather from early this morning brought a sharp dip in the temperature, shopping rush in the markets More

Petrol to sell at Rs 73.34 per litre in Valley

43% Price Hike Since June 2010

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 4: With the latest hike of Rs 1.82, the rate of petrol has been fixed at Rs 73.34 per litre in the Valley by oil companies against the existing rate of Rs 71.52.The oil companies last night hiked the petrol price by Rs 1.80 to 1.91 to wipe off their losses on the decontrolled fuel More

PM welcomes Pak decision

MFN STATUS

AGENCIES

Cannes, Nov 4: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday welcomed Pakistan's decision to grant Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India but said it should have been done long ago."Better late than never. I welcome it," Singh told reporters here in this French coastal resort when asked about Pakistan More

Full working day for JK Bank today

Srinagar, Nov 4: On the eve of Eid Azha, all business units of J&K Bank in the state shall observe a full working day on November 5, 2011 (Saturday). Also, for the convenience of esteemed customers the bank has decided to extend business hours by one hour on November5 (Saturday) i.e. from10am to More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

Renzushah releases Noor-ul-Haq book

Chrar-I-Sharief, Nov 4: The Noor-ul-Haq written by Prof Ghulam Hassan Zargar was released by the Director Information, Khawaja Farooq Renzushah at Khanqah-i-Faiz-e-Panah here on  Friday amidst large More


  • National

Home Ministry cracks whip

Filing property returns

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Nov 4: Responding to reports about many state governments being sluggish in either securing or forwarding to the Centre the property returns of the IPS officers, the Union Home Ministry has More



  • Opinion

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Our pursuit for material is endless

WORDS WITHIN BY FIRDOUS SYED

It is of no use to berate the forces of darkness for enticing the young minds to leave the path of truth and accept the eternal falsehood. Young minds are lured by material comforts to convert, is an absurd More


  • Op-Ed

On PAMPORE MURDER

SPINE CHILLING

IT IS TIME WE ALL BREAK OUR BRAINS AND AS A SOCIETY GET OUR ACT TOGETHER

The frequent occurrence of grizzly crimes like the murder of a teenager from Pampore some days ago has now reached an alarming, frightening precipice. A historically benign Kashmiri mind has over the years More



  • Letters

Power woes

Refer to "Power woes back to haunt Kashmir's" (Greater Kashmir November 4/2011). The area is being fed by 250 KVA transformer installed at Zahid-Pora and has registered 50 domestic connections and 8 commercial More


  • Editorial

AFSPA Bottom-line

There are three distinct things that characterize the ongoing debate on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). The basic issue related to this is that of political will. The rest two are just technicalities More


  • Business

Yet another petrol price hike annoys aam admi

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar Nov 4: The hike of Rs 1.82 per litre in petrol has evoked sharp criticism from the common man, traders and salaried class in the Valley.  With this hike that came into effect from Friday More


  • Sports

‘TALENT WE HAVE, EXPOSURE WE LACK’

UNSUNG HEROES OF J&K FOOTBALL

He is one of the veteran footballers of the Valley who started his career in early 1950’s. He became household name in Kashmir when he played for Mohammedan KMD. Muhammad Ismail Chapri, an unsung hero More


  • Kashmir

Don’t make AFSPA repeal prestige, political issue: Tarigami

SEEKS IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF NEW JOB POLICY

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Nov 4: Asserting that situation has improved considerably for ‘gradual’ revocation of Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) from the state, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday said More


  • Srinagar City

Govt caught napping on City roads

As Rush Of Eid Shoppers Swells To Lakhs, Mere 250 Men-In-Blue Man Entire Traffic

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Nov 4: Yet again at a time of festive shopping, the National Conference led government allegedly failed to administer the rush of shoppers to City centre. Even though the Traffic police had kept More



  • Jammu

Kashmiri Pandits' body for identification of fake ration cards

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, Nov 4: A body of Kashmiri Pandits today claimed that there were large number of fake migrant relief category ration cards which needed to be identified. "Crores of rupees go waste because of More


  • South Asia

APHC (M) urges Pak to revisit its wisdom

MFN Status To India

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Nov 4: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (M) Pakistan chapter on Friday voiced its serious concern over the decision of granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India and made a passionate More



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