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Crores meant for school buildings swindled

In 3 Years,560 Cr ‘Utilized’ Under SSA; 80% Works Non-Existent

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Sep 25: Sarva Shiksha Abihiyan (SSA), a centrally sponsored flagship programme meant for universalization of elementary education, is one area in Jammu and Kashmir where corruption seems to have been ‘universalized’ with impunity. If official documents were any indicator, there is no count More

PLA paints area with red

CHINESE INCURSION

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Leh, Sep 25: Chinese troops had painted rocks with “red star” - insignia of People’s Liberation Army - during their recent incursion into Indian territory in Chumar division of Nyoma sector, about 300 km from here, during which they had destroyed some tents of grazers and army bunkers, according to More

Legislature session begins today

National Conference undecided on Guru clemency resolution

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Sep 25: With summer session of the State legislature starting Monday, the ruling National Conference legislature party meeting Sunday, to decide the party’s stand on the resolution in the Assembly seeking clemency for parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru, remained inconclusive.  More

Stop membership drive in varsity: KU to Congress

FOLLOW-UP

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, Sep 25: Taking a serious note of a membership drive kick-started by Youth Congress at the University of Kashmir, the varsity authorities have decided to communicate to the party “to not repeat the activity again.” Talking to Greater Kashmir, the KU Registrar Prof S Fayyaz Ahmad More

Hajni likely to head Academy

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Sep 25: Noted literary personality Abdul Aziz Paray, also known as Dr Aziz Hajni, is likely to take over as new Secretary of the J&K Academy of Art Culture and Languages.Sources told Greater Kashmir that Hajni’s name was cleared by the Search Committee for the Secretary which met More

CIVIL SERVICES: New career choice in Valley

Students Cultivating Interest For Combined Services Exams: Faesal

D A RASHID

Srinagar, Sep 25: With candidates from Kashmir increasingly participating in Combined Services Examination, the phenomenon reveals a change in the priorities of students who would, until now, find it difficult to quit opting for medical and engineering services, which has been an irresistible attraction More

Saudi women get right to vote

Riyadh, Sep 25: Saudi King Abdullah Sunday announced that he was giving women the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the only public polls in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom.He also announced that women would have the right to join the all-appointed Shura (consultative) Council More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

Blaze in Iqbal Library

Srinagar, Sep 25: Fire broke out in Central Allama Iqbal library of Kashmir University on Saturday evening.  Officials said that around 7 PM, flames emerged near e-Resource centre of the library due More



  • Opinion

Looking For Answers

Before exploring the solution, we need to answer some questions

PUNCHLINE BY Z. G. MUHAMMAD

I think we are right now sailing in the same boat.  You’re   probably asking yourself the same questions that have  engaged my attention: what solutions is the trinity of interlocutors More


  • Op-Ed

Add Mission, Please!

Naila Neelofar writes on the theme of school admissions in response to the article by Arifa Ambreen, published in GK

FEEDBACK

Arifa Ambreen’s article on school admissions  posed some serious questions. Cat is common to kids but CAT certainly unexplored. September and October are the months of admission for Nursery and LKG More



  • Letters

Save lives

The ever increasing traffic mess in Srinagar city is worrying. What we need is a strict body of laws which helps us reduce the number of mishaps we experience every now and then. In that concern we must More


  • Editorial

Better Avoid

The report that a mainstream party has taken its membership drive to Kashmir’s premier educational institution - Kashmir University - is disturbing. The institution has by and large remained apolitical More


  • Business

ICA bars permanent works on Kishenganga

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

The Hague, Sep 25: The International Court of Arbitration has asked India not to take up any permanent works at Kishenganga hydro electric project in Jammu and Kashmir till the final settlement of the More


  • Sports

Sports fraternity hails decision

JK BANK COACH, MANAGER AXED

ABID KHAN

Srinagar, Sep 25: The sports fraternity of Valley has hailed JK Bank Sports Board for removing the coach and manager from the helm of affairs in Bank’s football team. Leading the praise are J& More


  • Kashmir

Boycott Cong membership drive: Geelani to youth

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Sep 25: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Sunday asked students to boycott the program of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and membership drive of the party More


  • Srinagar City

FADING MAHARAJ GUNJ GLORY

With successive regimes failing to pay requisite attention, this 200-years-old

ADIL BASHIR

Srinagar, Sep 25: Maharaj Gunj, a prominent heritage marketplace in Shahr-e-Khaas is fast losing charm due to alleged neglect by successive regimes even though the market could have been a key attraction More



  • Jammu

Mufti for creation of grievance cells to stop corruption

Udhampur, Sep 25: Reiterating resolve of his party to eradicate menace of corruption, former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party, patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed today demanded creation of grievance More


  • News

Linking ISI with terrorism reflects policy disarray in US: Gilani

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Sep 25: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said US assertions that Pakistan's spy agency ISI has links with the Haqqani terror network is a reflection of "policy disarray" within the Obama More



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