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Valley celebrates Eid-e-Milad

Thousands Of Devotees Join Congregational Prayers At Hazratbal

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 5: Despite rain and snow, thousands of Kashmiris Sunday joined congregational prayers to celebrate the birthday of the founder of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Devotees also spent the night in mosques and shrines across the Valley for special prayers.  Snowfall and gloomy weather More

Education Minister’s fate hangs in balance

AICC Takes Note Of Copying Scandal, Seeks Report

JAVAID MALIK

Srinagar, Feb 5: Congress high command is understood to have asked AICC general secretary incharge JK affairs and senior party leader Mohan Prakash to look into the allegations of Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister, Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed, allegedly resorting to unfair means to help his son qualify More

Probe or fact-finding?

Incriminating Evidence Found Against BOSE Officials: CB

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Feb 5: The Crime Branch (CB) of Jammu and Kashmir Police investigating the alleged use of unfair means by foster son of Education Minister Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed to pass matriculation examination Sunday said the state government has only tasked it with the assignment of submitting a fact More

Fresh snow, rains lash Valley

Highway To Remain Open Partially

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, Feb 5: With fresh snowfall and rains bringing back the cold wave, the Srinagar-Jammu National highway on Sunday remained closed for the second consecutive day in wake of heavy rains and snowfall in Pir Panchal mountain range.  A traffic police official told Greater Kashmir that More

Pak observes Kashmir solidarity day

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Feb 5: Kashmir solidarity day was observed in Pakistan and its administered part of Kashmir on Sunday with a renewed pledge to continue political, moral and diplomatic support to Kashmiri people in their struggle for right to self-determination. Public rallies, seminars and symposiums More

JK loses crores of central funds to official ineptitude

Education Department Doesn’t Know How To Transact Online; Minister Unforthcoming

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, Feb 5: In what could be termed as the most awful instance of administrative clumsiness, the state government has lost funds worth crores of rupees due to ‘ineptitude’ of officials in the education department to make online transaction of funds from Union Ministry of Human Resource Development More

PDD proposes fresh power tariff hike

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, Feb 5:The Power Development Department (PDD) on Sunday decided to file a petition in the Jammu and Kashmir State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) seeking fresh hike in power tariff for the next fiscal (2012-13). This will be the second power tariff in five months following increase More



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  • Briefs

Nayeem hails Pakistan

Srinagar, Feb 5: The president of Jammu Kashmir National Front Nayeem Ahmad Khan has thanked the Government of Pakistan, its people and political and religious parties for showing solidarity with the Kashmiris More


  • National

2 Kashmiris held for ‘suspicious’ movement in Bihar

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Araria, Feb 5: Four persons, including one from Nepal and two from Kashmir, were detained by the police for moving in a suspicious manner in a market in north Bihar's Araria district,a senior police officer More



  • Opinion

US Appointing Kashmir Expert

Is there any scope of hope for us anyway?

PUNCHLINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

‘If I am not reading too much in it; or it really is a significant   development that needs to be thought over and talked about.’ Or ‘it is tempest in teapot.’ On Saturday morning, after reading More


  • GK Magazine

Thoughts of a young KASHMIRI

AS A KASHMIRI I SEEM TO BE IN A PERPETUAL STATE OF SALE

WHO AM I BY SARA HAYAT SHAH

I am a twenty something young female Kashmiri about to embark a journey into a new phase of life. I often reminisce - what I saw, what I heard as a child. As I sit back and gaze into the future, I More



  • Letters

Nothing new

It is not for the first time that Education minister Peerzada is found guilty. He was involved in a bribe case in which he took Rs 40,000 from MLA Sangrama Shoaib Lone. He was found sleeping in assembly More


  • Editorial

Killer Crossing

Rawalpora byepass is once again in news and for all the sad reasons.  On Sunday there was again a mishap at the intersection. It is the umpteenth such incident at the crossing which now has the distinction More


  • Business

Valley flourmill owners running out of wheat stocks

Accuse FCI for not releasing commodity under OMSS

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Feb 5: The Valley flour mill owners today accused the Food Corporation of India of not releasing the wheat under OMSS to the millers. President All Kashmir Flourmills Association, Iqbal More


  • Sports

Sports Council ski course concludes

Srinagar, Feb 5: The 9th 15-day Snow Skiing course for the basic level conducted by JK State Sports Council concluded at Gulmarg on Saturday. 42 players participated in different age groups from different More


  • Kashmir

ZAHID FAROOQ 2ND DEATH ANNIVERSARY

Father decides to approach SC

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, Feb 5: Family of teenage boy, Zahid Farooq, allegedly killed by paramilitary BSF men on this day in 2010 at Brein Nishat, is yet to come at terms with life.   The intense grief of his More


  • Srinagar City

Another deadly mishap at faulty Sanat Nagar square

Load carrier crushed to wreckage,driver critically wounded; Admin sleeps

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Feb 5: A load carrier auto-rickshaw was crushed to wreckage and its driver critically wounded Sunday morning when the cab collided with a truck at faulty Sanat Nagar square, which government More



  • Jammu

Students stage protest in Jammu

Demand expulsion of Education, PHE ministers

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 5: Demanding immediate expulsion of Education Minister Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed and PHE minister Taj Mohi-ud-din from the state cabinet, various student organizations on Sunday staged a protest More


  • South Asia

Chinese to be taught in Pakistani schools

Islamabad, Feb 5: Chinese will soon be taught in schools across Pakistan, said a minister. Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan said arrangements were being made for More


  • World

Violence in Egypt, Govt building set on fire

Cairo, Feb 5: Egyptian pro-democracy activists set on fire a prominent government building in central Cairo as the street protests against army rule raged into the fourth consecutive day, with the toll More



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