Accountability Commission charges Taj with contempt

SAC Begins Proceedings Against Minister For Making ‘False Statement’

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Dec 24: Heralding more trouble for senior Congress leader and Minister for PHE Taj Mohiuddin, the State Accountability Commission (SAC) Monday initiated contempt proceedings against him for making false claims that the anti-graft body had given clean chit to him in alleged forest land grab More

Shabir Shah fuming, but rules out third front

Unilateral Decisions Won’t Work: Nayeem Khan

OTHER SIDE OF HURRIYAT (M)

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Dec 24: Ruling out formation of third front, senior Hurriyat (M) leader Shabir Ahmed Shah Monday said he was trying hard to end the existing split among the separatists to see Hurriyat as a single institutionalized platform.He advised the Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to More

SNCU scheme miscarries in JK

Funds Provided By Centre Unspent In 19 Districts

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, Dec 24: The Health Department in Jammu and Kashmir has failed to setup Sick Newborn Care Units (SNCUs) in most of the state’s hospitals despite adequate funding for the project from the Union Health Ministry.Official sources told Greater Kashmir that the department has established SNCUs More

PDD responsible for Baramulla infant deaths: CSFK

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 24: The Valley-based Civil Society members Monday expressed serious concern over the prevalent erratic power supply to hospitals.Referring to the tragic incident in which two infants died at District Hospital Baramulla earlier this month, the Civil Society Forum Kashmir (CSFK) said More

CHRISTMAS TODAY

Srinagar, Dec 24: Christmas, the birthday of Jesus Christ (AS), would be celebrated with religious fervor and gaiety throughout the world on Tuesday.Churches in the Valley have been decorated with people having erected Christmas trees and decorated.“The original meaning of Christmas is a special More

CIC censures CID

Information On Detainees

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Dec 24: The Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) GR Sufi on Monday served notice to the then Public Information Officer (PIO) of the office of Inspector General of CID wing of police to show cause as to why penalty proceedings shouldn’t be initiated against him for failing to pass order More

RTI exposes politicians

Pay Partly Bills For Pvt Houses, Huge Amounts For Govt Bungalows

AKSHAY AZAD

Jammu, Dec 24: The information furnished in response to a Right to Information (RTI) application has revealed shocking inconsistencies in the tariff and power consumption of the private and official residences of the ministers, legislators and the functionaries of the Power Development Department More

2 militants, cop killed in Kulgam gunfight

KHALID GUL

Kulgam, Dec 24: Two Lashkar-i-Toiba (LeT) militants including its District Commander allegedly involved in Hotel Silver Star shootout were killed in a gun-battle with forces in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Monday. A police constable was also killed in the encounter while a soldier was injured More

Safeguard sacrifices: Karatey to people

Srinagar, Dec 24: The chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (R) Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bita Karatey on Monday said the ongoing movement was martyrs’ trust with the people of Kashmir.  “It is More

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'Girl very serious, very critical'

DELHI GANGRAPE

New Delhi, Dec 24: The health of the 23-year-old gangrape victim deteriorated today after she showed tendencies of internal bleeding, with doctors calling her condition "very serious and very critical More

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