Corruption alarms Cong

Soz Hails Mirwaiz’s Anti-Graft Stance

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Sep 19: Hailing the concern of Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on growing menace of corruption in the state, State Congress chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz Monday said that bribery has assumed alarming proportions in Jammu and Kashmir making the lives of people miserable More

Rahul Gandhi to visit JK next week

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Sep 19: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is expected to visit Jammu and Kashmir next week to bolster the membership drive of the party’s youth wing.Gandhi, 42, is scheduled to visit all the three regions of the state to galvanize the membership drive of Youth Congress, started More

JK’s ‘arbitrariness’ in top cop’s selection

SC Guidelines Not Followed In Letter And Spirit

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Sep 19: While the Jammu and Kashmir Government is still to comply with the first Supreme Court directive on police reforms which calls for establishment of the State Security Commission [SSC], it is yet to fully follow the second directive on selection of the state’s top cop. While the directive More

Good, credible leadership need of the hour: Julio Ribeiro

Working On Police Reforms, Says Home Secy

Srinagar, Sep 19: Former police commissioner of Mumbai, one of the well-known cops in India, Julio Francis Ribeiro told Greater Kashmir that the main thrust of police reforms is to have best and honest people to head the institution of police. “And they have to be given operational independence to More

Panchayat bodies threaten agitation

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Sep 19: Stating that the Jammu and Kashmir government has not fulfilled its promise of empowering Panchayats in the state, a body of elected Panchayat members Monday threatened to start indefinite sit-in outside the state Assembly.All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Committee (AJKPC), which More

CIC orders inquiry in land mutation case

‘Deliberate Attempt To Delay Information To Complainant’

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Sep 19: Chief Information Commissioner GR Sufi has ordered an inquiry into a case of land mutation in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, stating that there was “a deliberate attempt to delay information” to the complainant.Disposing off a complaint filed by Saja Begum through her attorney More

Funds crunch hits SHRC

INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

Srinagar, Sep 19: The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is facing a serious shortage of funds which is hampering its functioning, an official said Monday."One of the members of the commission could not attend the office for over a week because of non-availability of fuel, even though cases More

3 bodies recovered in Valley

Srinagar, Sep 19: Police on Monday said that it recovered three bodies, including that of a boy, from New Delhi here.   A police spokesman said that body of Ghulam Nabi Zainadari son of More

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Quake toll climbs to 72; landslides, rains hamper rescue work

Gangtok, Sep 19: Battling landslides and torrential rains in quake-hit Sikkim, rescue teams got into full swing today as the death toll in the 6.8 magnitude temblor mounted to 72, including 41 in the Himalayan More

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