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4 grenade attacks in 24 hours

Policeman Injured In Sopore

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, Aug 1: Suspected militants carried out four grenade attacks during the last 24 hours across the Valley resulting in injuries to a policeman and damage to some vehicles, police said here.Suspected militants hurled a grenade on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in uptown Channapora locality More

State to have own law on GST

Cabinet Approves Sub-Committee Report

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Aug 1: The State Cabinet Wednesday approved a Cabinet Sub-committee report on state’s response to proposed central legislation for replacement of existing Sales Tax and VAT system by Goods and Service Tax (GST) regime, while underlying that the J&K Government would come up with its own More

NOXIOUS AZOLLA ENVELOPS DAL, NIGEEN LAKES

‘If Left Unattended, It Can Choke Water Bodies To Death’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Aug 1: In a major environmental concern Azolla an obnoxious water fern has engulfed sensitive areas of Dal and Nigeen lakes affecting adversely the eco-system of these famed water bodies.Experts maintain that if the water fern is left unattended it can cause eutrophication of these lakes More

VALLEY GETS POWER IN ISOLATION MODE

450 MW Energy Generated Locally Utilized During Breakdown

NORTHERN GRID FAILURE

JAVAID MALIK

Srinagar, Aug 1: Despite northern grid breaking down on Monday and Tuesday, the Power Development Department (PDD) managed to make available 450 MW power to Valley consumers in “isolation mode”.The power stations located in Kashmir including NHPC-owned Uri-I, according to the PDD officials, have More

Chief Minister's power meet on August 6

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 1: Assuring that the massive power outage due to transmission grid failure will not recur, new Power Minister Veerappa Moily Wednesday said he has called a meeting of chief ministers of some of the affected states on August 6 to discuss the issue.“Now, there is absolute normalcy More

Vehicles with tinted films to be impounded

Traffic Deptt Sets Aug 20 Deadline For Voluntary Removal

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu Aug 1: Following the Jammu and Kashmir High Court's directive, the state traffic police Wednesday set August 20 as the deadline for voluntarily removal of tinted films from vehicles, and warned that vehicles found violating the orders after the deadline will be impounded.“We appeal people More

Sushil Kumar assumes office

‘Will Work For Cordial Centre-State Relations’

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Aug 1: The Centre-state relationship is likely to acquire new and more cordial dimension if the hints dropped by the new Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde are any indication. He began his stint in the sensitive Ministry on Wednesday with a clear commitment to have “simple and cordial” ties More

India allows FDI from Pakistan

Islamabad Welcomes Decision

New Delhi, Aug 1: India on Wednesday overturned its ban on foreign investment from Pakistan in a move designed to build goodwill amid a renewed push for a peace settlement between the nuclear-armed neighbours.“The government of India has reviewed the policy... and decided to permit a citizen of More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

4 SPORTSPERSONS GET GOVT JOBS

Srinagar, Aug 1: Jammu and Kashmir Government on Wednesday made direct recruitment of four persons against sports quota vacancies. Curiously all recruits are from Jammu province. As per the order More


  • National

Peace hangs by a thread in ethnically-volatile Assam

INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

New Delhi/Guwahati, Aug 1: The recent ethnic flare-up in Assam that killed 58 and displaced hundreds of thousands of people not only shook the governments in both the state and the centre but revived the More



  • Opinion

31 July, 1988: From Ground to Underground

Emotions aside, how do we explain these 24 years to ourselves!

INKSIGHT

MEHMOOD UR RASHID

31 July, 1988; 24 years back, this was the day when existing order of things in Kashmir blew up in the two blasts that were heard in the Srinagar City. Nobody had the idea of how huge a change was about More


  • GK Magazine

Farming the natural way

What is Kashmir doing in the field of organic farming? Nothing!

GUEST COLUMN

MANEKA GANDHI

Every month Harish Joshi comes to see me. He gives me a catalogue with pictures of products, prices and farmers’ names. I choose my grains, spices, rajma and lentils. They cost me as much as any food on More



  • Letters

Muslims targeted

This refers to the mass scale murder of the Rohingyan Muslims in Burma by majority community. The UNO is turning a deaf ear to this grave situation, besides the OIC is also silent over this criminality More


  • Editorial

Salvaging LoC trade

Branded as the biggest Confidence Building Measure on Kashmir between India and Pakistan, the cross-LoC trade continues to be symbolic in nature. This has forced Hurriyat (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq More


  • Business

Omar highlights importance of handicrafts in JK economy

CDI’s Master in Craft Management gets recognition

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 1: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Wednesday said the handicraft sector has been employment provider to a large number of people since ages in the state.  He emphasized the need for providing More


  • Sports

Michael Phelps makes history

Wins 19th Olympic Medal

LONDON-2012

London, Aug 1: Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian of all time on Tuesday, the US 4x200m freestyle relay gold giving him a 19th medal after bittersweet silver in the 200m butterfly.   More


  • Kashmir

When’ll Valley get its Engineering College?

Civil Society Cry Goes Unheard As Government Looks The Other Way

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, Aug 1: While the J&K Government is boasting of “taking education to the doorsteps of students in remote areas”, it is doing little to even open a window of education to Kashmir’s thousands More


  • Srinagar City

Eidgah beautification project reduced to annual dewatering drill!

Gear up levelling, sanitation: Mubarak Gul tells admin

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Aug 1: The much delayed Eidgah beautification project worth millions seems to have been reduced to meagre annual dewatering and sanitation drill. This is what one could infer from the official More



  • Jammu

Traffic lights to be operational in Jammu from August 3

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Aug 1: The much awaited electric traffic signals in the winter capital of the state will finally be operational from August 3. “The process for the installation and testing of these lights More


  • South Asia

Mumbai evidence not admissible in its court: Pak tells India

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Islamabad, Aug 1: The Pakistan government has formally informed India that evidence provided by New Delhi in the 2008 Mumbai attacks case is not admissible in a Pakistani court as defence lawyers were More


  • World

‘Missile deployment plan in Arunachal cause of concern’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Beijing, Aug 1: India's plans to deploy BrahMos supersonic missiles in Arunachal Pradesh along the border with China is a matter of "concern", a state-run daily here said today. Referring to the successful More


  • Health

Childhood obesity could erode fertility later

Washington, Aug 1: A sharp spike in childhood obesity may more than damage overall health -- it could be disrupting the onset of puberty and erode the ability to reproduce, especially in females, according More


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For those who want to write for Greater Kashmir

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