• Left demands rollback of passenger fare hike
• Commuters incensed
• JKSMA to celebrate Int’l mountain day
• JK Postal Circle to recruit more staff
• Govt wins FDI vote in Rajya Sabha
• EPFO time bars inquiry against employers in PF cases to 7 yrs
• Defunct ATMs annoy customers in Kupwara
• Aryans launches scholarship awareness campaign
• Customers appeal JK Bank
• Royal Pashmina exhibition begins at Delhi
• Travel bodies form coordination committee
• LA panel seeks report on brick kilns

Ire brewing against pesky power cuts

Protests Erupt In Summer Capital; No Improvement Unless Consumers Cooperate: PDD

MUDDASIR ALI/ZAHID MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Dec 7: With power situation worsening in Kashmir, people on Friday took to roads in several parts of the summer capital here to protest against the erratic power supply amid biting cold conditions More

• Police DPC likely to meet on December 11
• Kashmir in grip of biting cold
• Geelani condemns slapping PSA on Mushtaq
• KWT PROVIDES RELIEF TO FRISLAN FIRE VICTIMS
• Police announce free coaching

Dal Dwellers Dislocation in Disarray

Rakh-e-Arth lacks basic amenities

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Dec 7: Notwithstanding the Central government’s liberal funding on conservation of Dal Lake and rehabilitation of Dal dwellers, the state government has been unable to mitigate the sufferings More

• APS showcases cultural heritage
• 'Switch over to environment friendly packaging material'
• Erratic BSNL’s Shivpora tower
• Bulbul Lanker residents hail firefighters
• Students appeal KU V-C

Govt orders promotions, transfers in middle-rung administration

Zubair Posted Spl Secretary Finance, Kumar Is Addl Secretary Planning

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Dec 7: The state government Friday ordered promotions and transfers in the middle-rung administration.  As per the orders issued by the General Administration Department (GAD), Farooq Ahmad More

• JK gears up to launch RFD initiative
• 25 years on, no post created in ISM Deptt
• Govt examining report on rights violations: Omar
• 620 creche centres run through 114 NGOs in JK!
• Major reshuffle in R&B deptt

Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal arrives in Gaza for first-ever visit

Rafah, Dec 7: Exiled Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal broke into tears on Friday as he arrived in the Gaza Strip for his first-ever visit, a landmark trip reflecting his militant group's growing international More

Four Sons of Jana Begum

A mother who lost her four sons and her husband to conflict in the past sixteen years

A MOTHER’S TRAGEDY

MAJID MAQBOOL

Sitting near the window of her modest home in Diver, Lolab, 120kms north of Srinagar, Jana Begum, 51, emptily stares around, heaving long sighs of “haye meray Khuda”, before talking about what she has More

• A village that symbolizes religious harmony

Pollution, encroachments mar Jhelum’s beauty at Bijbehara

Islamabad: Failure of the authorities to take measures for conservation of river Jhelum here has pushed it on the verge of extinction.  Considered to be lifeline of Kashmir, the river is marred by More

• Inordinate delay hits widening of vital road