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Defence Ministry opposed to AFSPA revocation

Cabinet Secretary-Led High-Level Team To Meet CM Today

GK MONITORING DESK

New Delhi, Oct 22: The Defence Ministry is not in agreement with J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah after the latter announced the revocation of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some areas in Jammu and Kashmir, sources say.While addressing a gathering yesterday More

Responsibilities of police will increase: IGP

Srinagar, Oct 22: Inspector General of Police Kashmir Range, S M Sahai, Saturday said that responsibilities of police would increase after Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is revoked in some areas.“It (revocation of AFSPA) is government’s prerogative. However, when such a decision will More

SHRC indicts SMHS, LD doctors of medical negligence

A Woman Had Died Allegedly Due To Wrong Blood Transfusion in 2005

SYED MOHSIN

Srinagar, Oct 22: Top doctors of the SMHS and LD hospitals have been indicted by the State Human Rights Commission in a death caused by transfusion of wrong blood to a patient.It is a rare case where medical negligence has been established by inquiry conducted independently by the SHRC’s police More

Sharpening uptown-downtown divide?

‘New Gateway Project, Babul Iqbal, Should Not Ghettoize Old City’

MUSHTAQ AHMAD

Srinagar, Oct 22: With the government yet to build any entry points into 2000-year-old downtown city on the main highways in Kashmir valley, particularly on Jammu-Srinagar highway, the decision to come up with a stone gate near Babdemb area is seen by experts as a project completely out of place and More

Omar for engagement with Pak to resolve Kashmir

GK NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi, Oct 22: Asking the Central Government to have an “active engagement” with Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said without this a permanent and lasting solution to the Kashmir issue is unlikely to emerge.“The long term and permanent solution to the Kashmir More

New office timings

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 22: According to the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, the office timings in Government Offices/Institutions of the Kashmir Valley from November 1st, 2011 shall be from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm except the educational institutions located within Srinagar Municipal Limits. These timings More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

Traffic mess near HMT

Commuters suffer

Srinagar, Oct 22: Hundreds of commuters were caught in a massive traffic jam on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Highway here on Saturday. “Vehicles on way to various places in north Kashmir which left Lal Chowk More



  • Opinion

The devil goes

We went mad with joy when Gaddafi talked Kashmir

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

Imagine a king hiding in a drainage pipe getting dragged by his own people and mercilessly killed.  A wounded Gaddafi raising his hands in utter desperation and begging for mercy from the revolutionary More


  • GK Magazine

Lal Ghulam:May be a Kashmiri Engineer!

This road reminiscent of some of the defining moments of Kashmir History, has taken its name after the Mughal caravans started their journey into Kashmir after 1586-AD

MUGHAL ROAD BY MOHAMMAD SHAFI KHAN

Two recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir are going to improve upon the linkages of the valley of Kashmir. One, the Railway from Udhumpur to Qazigund to Baramulla. Two, the Mughal Road from Rajouri More



  • Business

Local entrepreneur’s expansion plans fail, courtesy govt apathy

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 22: Notwithstanding the tall claims of Jammu and Kashmir Government about boosting local entrepreneurs and industrialists, Al-Kabir Fleshy Foods is yet to take off its expansion program due More


  • Sports

Lalit Shikarathon held in Dal Lake

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Oct 22: The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group on Saturday organized the longest ever Shikara race “Lalit Shikarathon” in Dal Lake to mark centennial anniversary of its presence here. The Lalit More


  • Kashmir

Students upset over series, grading system

Class X examination

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, Oct 22: At a  time when Board of School Education cheered the ‘reforms’ made in examination system, the 10th class students are upset over the introduction of series and  grade system More


  • Srinagar City

RBI-81 to upgrade Airport road

ALTERNATIVE SOPHISTICATED TREATMENT INTRODUCED ON ‘PILOT-BASIS’ FOR RAWALPORA CANAL MOTORWAY

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Oct 22: Prompted by sustained campaign about the dilapidated condition of Rawalpora-Humhama link road –a vital alternative route to Srinagar International Airport, the government finally woke More



  • Jammu

BJP demands Omar’s resignation

DEATH OF NC WORKER

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Oct 22: After maintaining virtual silence for a month, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday joined the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in demanding immediate resignation of More


  • South Asia

Would stand by Pakistan if it is attacked by anyone: Karzai

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Oct 22: After being critical of Pakistan over its links with Taliban militants, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has now said his country would stand by Islamabad in the event of hostilities with More


  • World

For UNSC non-permanent seat, India votes for Pak

THAW AT UN

YOSHITA SINGH\PTI

United Nations, Oct 22: Pakistan, which has been elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for a two-year term, has voiced "absolute confidence" that India voted in its favour and said More



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