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Govt begins PDD privatization

To Set Up Transmission, Distribution Companies For Power

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Aug 30: In a significant move aimed at privatization of the power distribution in Jammu and Kashmir, the state cabinet Thursday approved setting up of Transmission and Distribution companies in the Power Development Department (PDD).The cabinet which met here under the chairmanship of More

CABINET APPROVES CREATION OF 1297 POSTS

Srinagar, Aug 30: The state government Thursday accorded sanction for creation of 1,297 posts in Rural Development and Animal and Sheep Husbandry departments.The state Cabinet, which met here today under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, approved creation of 1,083 posts of Village More

Govt amends RTI Rules

SIC Rendered Toothless: Activists

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Aug 30: Jammu and Kashmir Government Thursday did away with the detailed Rules guiding the implementation of Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act- 2009. The move comes at a time when Jammu and Kashmir Government has been making repeated claims about ensuring transparency and accountability More

CIC expresses dismay over ‘sweeping changes’

Srinagar, Aug 30: A fresh controversy has erupted over replacing the RTI Rules 2010, with Chief Information Commissioner joining the protest.Hours after Government notified the RTI Rules 2012, the CIC GR Sufi said, “As Chief Information Commissioner, I do concede that Government has powers to More

Civil Society grills former interlocutors

‘Report Focuses On Administrative Issues’

JAVAID MALIK

Srinagar, Aug 30: The meeting of the civil society members called by the former interlocutors-turned-resource persons, Dileep Padgaonkar and Radha Kumar, to seek feedback on their report witnessed heated exchange of words between the participants and hosts here on Thursday. Most of the participants More

12-year old Faizan dreads police custody

‘Deprived Of Food, Forced To Clean Toilet’

ZAHID MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Aug 30: “Mummy, they did not give me food; they pushed me inside the toilet and asked me to clean it. I don’t want to go back, please save me,” Parveena quotes her 12-year old son, Faizan Sofi, after he was released from police custody on bail by a local court here. Police have charged the More

NAM summit opens in Tehran

Reform Global Governance: Manmohan

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Tehran, Aug 30: A host of key issues like the worsening situation in Syria, Iran’s nuclear programme and other matters of global concern are set to dominate the agenda of the Non-Aligned Movement’s Summit which opened in Tehran on Thursday.The two-day meet of the 120-nation grouping, which began More

ISRAELIS ARE FEROCIOUS WOLVES: KHAMENEI

AGENCIES

Tehran, Aug 30: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking Thursday at the NAM summit being hosted by his country, called Israelis “ferocious Zionist wolves who digest the Palestinian people.”United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who controversially decided to attend the summit More

SINGH MEETS ASIF ALI ZARDARI

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Tehran, Aug 30: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today began a key meeting here, amid clear indications that terrorism will be the prime focus of the Indian side.The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 16th NAM summit and is the second meeting between the More

Urban Local Bodies polls in Dec: Govt

Srinagar,Aug 30: The government Thursday announced that elections to Urban Local Bodies and Block Development Councils will be held in December this year.“Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has instructed Rural Development and Housing and Urban Development Departments to take steps necessary for the conduct More

Zaffar Qureshi elected HCBA President

D A RASHID

Srinagar, Aug 30: Advocate Zaffar Amin Qureshi was Thursday elected as President of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association. The election was conducted today at Saddar Court Complex here.For various posts, 11 candidates were in the fray while five candidates were declared elected for different More



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  • Briefs

Man drowns in Budgam

Srinagar, Aug 30: A farmer was drowned in a water sump in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday. Police said Muhammad Qasim Allie son of Ghulam Muhammad resident of Labertal was drowned in the More


  • National

‘China illegally refers to Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 30: China "illegally" refers to Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet and claims around 90,000 sq km of Indian territory there, Rajya Sabha was informed today. "China disputes the international More



  • Opinion

On welcoming yatris

Kashmiris have always been warm hosts with a strong belief in communal harmony. The issue is certainly not religious, but environmental

COMMENT

HASSAN ZAINAGAIRI

In 1996 thousands of yatris en-route to Amarnath cave were caught in a snow tempest. 273 died and hundreds were injured. Militancy at that time was at its peak, but Yatra went on uninterrupted. Even when More


  • GK Magazine

Shrinking pastures and disconnected pastorals

Our government and the policy makers rarely recognise the economic contributions of pastorals

M JAVAID

Ours is a place which is inhabited by a mix of communities- settled as well as nomadic. The latter are an important component of our populace with the pastoral Gujjars and Bakerwals being the most prominent More



  • Letters

Paper Tigers

This refers to M Ashraf's Kashmir's Paper Tigers. Powerful write-up and a perfect reflection of some brutal truths of our land, rather the people of land. But I have a submission. You have presented your More


  • Editorial

Revisiting Rumi

PROF G R MALIK

As I write these lines an international seminar on Mawlana Jalal-ud-Din Rumi is in progress at the University of Kashmir. It is high time we asked the question about Rumi’s relevance to the present age More


  • Business

Uri grows Kashmir’s prized saffron

'Government Support Can Help Improve Quality Of Pricey Spice'

NAYEEM SHOWKAT KHAN

Uri, Aug 30: If you thought saffron grew only on Pampore karevas, here is some surprise: A farmer in Salamabad here has succeeded in cultivating Kashmir’s prized spice in his fields.  “I am cultivating More


  • Sports

Rajendra declares open super league volleyball tournament

‘Welfare Of Youth Prime Concern For Jammu & Kashmir Police’

Srinagar, Aug 30: Asserting that Jammu and Kashmir Police would continue its civic action programme with zeal, the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Armed/Law & Order, K Rajendra Kumar More


  • Kashmir

‘SHRC must dig up grave truth’

Families Of Missing Persons Move Fresh Petition Before Commission, Seek DNA Profiling Of Buried Bodies

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, Aug 30: At the time when the Jammu and Kashmir Government has sought closure of State Human Rights Commission probe unmarked graves in Kashmir, more than 500 families of disappeared persons Thursday More


  • Srinagar City

CIVIL SOCIETY, ADMIN LOCK HORNS OVER SKEWED BRIDGE

Will continue with construction, says DDC; Won’t allow, say people

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Aug 30: A few days after Governor NN Vohra directed Divisional Commissioner Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon to find “a viable solution  to problem” arising out of skewed bridge construction across More



  • South Asia

PaK leaders for amending 1974 interim Act

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Aug 30: The federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has said the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and the mainstream political parties of PaK are on the More



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