- TOP STORIES
Hurriyat (M) assails detractors of dialogue
Forces Of Darkness Muck Up Resolution Efforts; Geelani Knows What We Will Bring From Pakistan: Prof Bhat
ABID BASHIR
Srinagar, Dec 8: Taking detractors of dialogue head-on, senior Hurriyat Conference (M) leader Prof Abdul Gani Bhat Saturday said there is no alternative to parleys and some elements play the role of “spoilers” in finding respectable solution to the vexed Kashmir issue.He said the amalgam strongly More
Geelani asks civil society to work for Kashmir cause
ZAHID MAQBOOL
Srinagar, Dec 8: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani Saturday asked the civil society to work for the Kashmir cause and not leave everything to the leaders.“We have capable people in Kashmir who can work to address various dimensions of Kashmir issue. But they leave everything More
Minorities seek role in resolution
ABID BASHIR
Srinagar,Dec 8: Members of minority community of the state Saturday urged the Hurriyat Conference (M) to include them in the Kashmir resolution process. They also asked chairman of the amalgam, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, to urge Pakistan to allow Kashmiri Pandits free travel to Sharda temple in Pakistan More
AICC to decide on pre-poll alliance with NC: Prof Soz
‘Omar Has The Right To Talk About Future Pact; Will Invite Rahul, Azad For Panchayat Conferences’
ABID BASHIR
Srinagar, Dec 8: State Congress chief Prof Saifuddin Soz Saturday said the AICC is the ultimate authority to decide about pre-poll alliance with National Conference for 2014 assembly polls. He also said that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah “has a right to speak about 2014 alliance between the two parties More
‘Denial nothing new for NC’
Srinagar,Dec 8: Rubbishing the claim made by National Conference General Secretary that late Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah was not a party to the 1975 Accord, Peoples Democratic Party today said denial of their actions was nothing new for Abdullahs.In a statement, the party chief spokesperson Naeem More
Beg contradicts Sheikh Nazir
Srinagar, Dec 8: Contradicting NC General Secretary Sheikh Nazir’s statement, party’s member parliament from south Kashmir Dr Mehboob Beg said; “1975 Accord happened between Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah and Indira Gandhi.”Talking to Srinagar based news-gathering agency CNS, Beg said; “It will More
Health Department fails to upgrade JLNM Hospital
Institution Faces Acute Shortage Of Docs,Paramedics
AILING HEALTHCARE-VI
MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN
Srinagar, Dec 8: Inadequate doctors and paramedical staff are taking heavy toll on the patient care at JLNM Hospital here as Health Department has failed to upgrade the institution to make it referral facility.Sources told Greater Kashmir that the hospital has dearth of Medical Officers (Assistant More
Resolve Kashmir:NC to India-Pak
Party To Continue Its Campaign For Autonomy, AFSPA Revocation
Jammu, Dec 8: Overwhelmed by the results of Legislative Council (LC) polls, ruling National Conference (NC) Saturday resolved to “strengthen coalition with Congress”, while intensifying its campaign for revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and grant of autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir More
Breakthrough in cardiac surgery at SKIMS
Advanced ‘Beating Heart’ Procedure Adopted
GK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
Srinagar, Dec 8: Cardiac surgeons at the premier tertiary care hospital, SK Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Srinagar, have achieved a major feat by conducting advanced ‘beating heart’ procedures on patients suffering from congenital Atrial Defect.The medicos have performed the surgeries More
- Briefs
Div Com for time bound widening of Sgr-Jammu highway
Srinagar, Dec 8: Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon Saturday stressed upon the concerned officers to ensure timely disposal of land acquisition and other revenue related cases for More
- National
India wants friendly ties with Pak: Pranab
‘Conducive Atmosphere Needed To Tackle Complex Issues’
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Dec 8: India wants conducive atmosphere to be created to tackle “more complex and difficult issues” with Pakistan, President Pranab Mukherjee has told a visiting Pakistani Parliamentary delegation More
Winged guests
Migratory birds take a dip in world famous Dal Lake in Srinagar on chilly Saturday morning. Habib Naqash/GK
JKLF protest march foiled
Police on Friday foiled the JKLF march against TADA court verdict awarding life sentence to two Kashmiri youth. Habib Naqash/GK
Protest against life sentence
Relatives of Sheikh Nazir, who was given life imprisonment by a TADA court recently, stage protest at Batmaloo in Srinagar on Friday. Mubashir Khan/GK
Protest against lifers
Women activists of MKM on Wednesday staged protest against the awarding of life sentence to Kashmiris. Aman Farooq/GK
Paying tributes
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other NC leaders offer Fateh-a-Khawani at the mausoleum of late Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah on his 107th birth anniversary. Mubashir Khan/GK
Srinagar on Int’l cycling map
International cycle race flagged off in Srinagar. Azan/GK
‘Peace March’
Hurriyat (M) leaders led a peace march in old city on Tuesday. Aman Farooq/GK
Traffic Terror
Vehicles caught in a gridlock near Exhibition crossing in Srinagar on Monday. Mubashir Khan/GK
LC Polls….
Women Panchayat Representatives exercise their franchise in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district on Monday. Sajad Munwardi/GK
Expressing solidarity
JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik visited Frislan village near Pahalgam on Saturday and distributed Rs 5 lakhs as relief among the fire victims.
Colourful.....
A fruit vendor sets his merchandize in order in Srinagar on Saturday. Habib Naqash/GK
Pahalgam receives fresh snowfall
A view of snow clad Golf Course in Pahalgam captured by GK lensman Sajad Munwardi
- Opinion
A tale of two freedoms
One life-giving, one life-threatening
WRITE HAND
AJAZ UL HAQUE
The word `freedom' is something that we really feel so excited about as it has been our collective urge to be free. We all want freedom because we all need freedom. To my modest understanding of the word More
- GK Features
Being Syeda Begum
After losing her four sons to conflict, an old widow in downtown lives in poverty with an adopted child
A MOTHERS TRAGEDY--II
MAJID MAQBOOL
In a narrow lane in downtown Baghi sundar, Maidanpora, Darish Kadal( Safa Kadal), Syeda Begum, 66, is anxiously waiting for her 8-year-old adopted son to come home safe after school. The sight of him everyday More
- Business
Tata takes Valley subscribers for a ride
Snaps Photon connections; remains silent on refund
MUKEET AKMALI
Srinagar, Dec 8: In a bad trade practice typical of an also-ran business enterprise, the TATA Docomo has disconnected service to hundreds of Photon subscribers in the Valley for non-payment of petty More
- Sports
Sehwag hits out at Indian batsmen
‘Players lack of patience; God alone can help us’
TAPAN MOHANTA
Kolkata, Dec 8: India opener Virender Sehwag Saturday lashed out at his colleague batsmen for showing lack of patience in the third test against England here, holding them responsible for putting the hosts More
- Kashmir
73rd amendment to put NC-Cong bonhomie to test
Have Finalized Report: Soz; Ready To Democratize 1989 Act Further: Sagar
ABID BASHIR
Srinagar, Dec 8: Following bonhomie during the recently concluded Legislative Council polls, the National Conference-Congress combine is now set to face each other over the incorporation of ‘left-over More
- Srinagar City
Police caught napping on AL BALAAGH FRAUD
Victims smell rat in investigations
SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI
Srinagar, Dec 8: With the state police failing to crack the case of fraud by Al-Balaagh Tours and Travels, a firm which two months back duped at least 126 aspiring Hajjis, the victims have accused the More
- World
Hamas' Meshaal vows to continue resistance
Gaza, Dec 8: Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas leader in exile, has rejected any concessions over a future Palestine state at a rally marking the 25th anniversary of the armed Palestinian group.More than 100,000 More
- Court Watch
Court reserves order on issuance of Commission
DEFAMATION CASE
D A RASHID
Srinagar, Dec 8: A court on Saturday reserved orders on an application by National Conference leader and Law and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ali Muhammad Sagar in his defamation case against Peoples More
- Health
Childlessness 'may increase likelihood of early death'
Stockholm, Dec 8: Involuntary childlessness may increase the likelihood of early death, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports.The Danish study looked at more than 21,000 couples seeking More




