Govt, Separatists join chorus on return of Kashmiri Pandits

Right Time For Community To Think Of Coming Back: Omar

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Dec 21: Promising to restore sense of security in Kashmiri Pandits who left the Valley two decades ago, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday asked the community to explore possibility of returning to the state. "If words were enough to bring the Kashmiri Pandits More

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Hurriyat (M) assures ‘social guarantee’, restoration of properties

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Dec 21: In a fresh bid to bridge the divide between Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits, who left the valley in 1990, the Hurriyat Conference (M) has invited migrant KPs living to return to their homeland on the basis of “social guarantee” from the amalgam.  The Hurriyat leadership has More

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Omar rules out rejoining NDA

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Dec 21: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has ruled out the possibility of his party National Conference (NC) rejoining the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which it had quit after 2009 Lok Sabha elections.  He also rejected any chance of backing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra More

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Bedi Commission to submit report today

200-Page Document To Be Handed Over To Law Secretary

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Nov 21: The one-man Commission of Inquiry (CoI) comprising Justice HS Bedi, probing the high-profile case of the death of National Conference (NC) worker Syed Muhammad Yousuf, will submit its report to Jammu and Kashmir Government on Saturday. Authoritative sources told Greater More

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HC ORDERS JUDICIAL PROBE

Custodial Disappearance

D A RASHID

Srinagar, Dec 21: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ordered a judicial enquiry into the disappearance of a man who was allegedly picked up by Army from Dalgate in 2000.  Family of Mukhtar Ahmad Beigh of Sonawar has filed a petition seeking directions for the judicial probe into enforced More

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Day-3: Sopore observes shutdown

GHULAM MUHAMMAD

Sopore, Dec 21: The north Kashmir town of Sopore on Friday remained shut for the third consecutive day against Tuesday’s encounter that left six militants dead and scores of houses and orchards damaged. Government and private institutions, business establishments were closed and traffic remained More

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Detainees’ harassed in Bla jail: Hurriyat (G)

Srinagar, Dec 21: Hurriyat Conference (G) on Friday alleged that the political detainees in Sub Jail, Baramulla, were harassed and maltreated by jail authorities.  Expressing serious concern over the plight of detainees, a Hurriyat (G) spokesman said: “It has been observed that superintendent More

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'LeT militant involved in Sarpanch killing arrested'

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Dec 21: Police on Friday claimed that it achieved a major breakthrough in the killing of a Sarpanch in Palhallan area of Pattan here in north Kashmir in September this year by arresting the LeT militant Muhammad Altaf Ganie, 16, alias Cheema son of  Abdul Hamid Ganie, of Raipora Palhallan More

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60th UGC orientation course begins at KU

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 21: Academic Staff College of University of Kashmir started a four week long UGC- general orientation Course for University and College teachers at University campus at Hazratbal here, a KU spokesman said in a statement. He said Registrar Kashmir University Professor Zafar A More

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Shah, Mir arrested

Srinagar, Dec 21:  The Democratic Freedom Party chairman Shabir Ahmad Shah along with other separatists Javid Ahmad Mir, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash and Wasim Ahmad Lone were arrested by police on Friday when they were on way to Arihal Pulwama in south Kashmir.   Before his arrest Shah More

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