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Valley in grip of intense cold wave

Freezing Temp Chokes Water Supply; Fresh Snowfall Forecast For Weekend

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Jan 11: Kashmir Valley continues to freeze in one of the harshest cold waves in decades amid acute shortage of power, water and other essentials pestering its residents.There was no respite in the extreme frosty conditions on the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday with day temperature More

No passenger traffic on highway today

Stranded Commuters Stage Protests

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Jan 11: Traffic on Srinagar-Jammu highway is still far from normal. Today 1300 vehicles including passenger buses and goods trucks were allowed to roll from Srinagar to Jammu, Inspector General of police (Traffic), HK Lohia told Greater Kashmir.The 4-day blockade of the highway since More

Wish electricity could be wireless: CM’s Advisor

Gul Draws Barbs For ‘Hilarious’ Facebook Post

MUSHTAQ AHMAD

Srinagar, Jan 11: Amidst the spate of troubles that unfolded in the wake of last weekend snowfall in the Valley, while Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tried to keep his image intact by whirlwind visits and reassuring tweets, his advisor Mubarak Gul failed miserably to strike a chord.Gul is facing More

No proposal from JK Govt on AFSPA review: Centre

MHA Reply To RTI Application ‘Revealing’

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Jan 11: What could be highly discomforting for the successive regimes in the state, the Union Home Ministry has in a startling revelation bared that it never received any recommendation or request from the Jammu and Kashmir government, during past nine years, for withdrawal/amendment/revocation More

Kamal cries for cabinet expansion

‘Corruption At Peak In JK’

Srinagar, Jan 11: Senior National Conference leader Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamal Wednesday said that cabinet expansion and reshuffle has become inevitable in the state.Talking to KNS, Dr Kamal said, “My personal opinion is that it (expansion) should happen without any delay. Work suffers when a single More

Govt mulls separate office for PSGA implementation

'Panchayats To Be Integrated In Next Plan Formulation'

Jammu, Jan 11: Describing Pubic Service Guarantee Act (PSGA) one of the biggest initiatives of his government for public empowerment and good-governance, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday said the government was considering creation of a separate department for implementation of the Act.“ More

Rushdie visit non issue for Muslims: CM

Jammu, Jan 11: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said that issuing visa by Indian government to controversial author Salman Rushdie is not an election issue for Muslims as they are more concerned with their day-to-day affairs.“I think Muslims in India are more concerned over their daily issues More

‘Municipal polls in March-April’

Jammu, Jan 11: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday announced that long pending municipal polls will be conducted in March-April this year while elections for Block Development Councils will be held by this March.The Chief Minister said that Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand has assured him that More

Bedi Commission resumes probe

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Jan 11: The one-man Commission of Inquiry (CoI) comprising of Justice H. S. Bedi, probing the mysterious death of National Conference (NC) worker Haji Yousuf, has resumed investigation in the high profile case. Yousuf died in the custody of Crime Branch after being handed over to it by Chief More

Cabinet to meet today

To Discuss Report On Power Projects, Approve Drug Policy

Jammu, Jan 11: The state cabinet, which is meeting here on Thursday, is likely to clear the much-awaited drug policy besides deliberating on the recommendations of its sub-committee on NHPC-run power projects in the state.Informed sources told Greater Kashmir that the drug policy drafted by the More



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  • Briefs

Advocate Malik bereaved

Srinagar: High Court advocate, Nazir Ahmad Malik’s sister passed away after brief illness at SMHS hospital Wednesday. Malik’s sister, Shakeela wife of Nazir Ahmad Wani, was unwell for the past two More


  • National

EC stops 4.5% sub-quota for minorities in poll-bound states

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Jan 11: The Election Commission has put a stop to the implementation of the UPA Government’s ambitious plan to provide a 4.5 percent sub-quota for minorities within the 27 per cent quota for More



  • Opinion

Kashmir: Power is Problem

Till Power in Kashmir represents crisis overcoming the crisis in power is a refined folly

INKSIGHT BY MEHMOOD UR RASHID

No so long back, Alvin Toffler wrote the book Powershift. It didn’t mean that Power had shifted from one point to another, but that the very nature of power had undergone a shift. In the routine sense More


  • GK Magazine

THINKING ALTERNATIVES

EXPLORING NEW ROUTES FOR POWER TRANSMISSION TO KASHMIR

CROSS LOC TRANSMISSION BY ER. MANZOOR AHMAD WANI

Time has proved that upgrading the local power network of Kashmir at EHV level is not the only solution to the local power crisis. It represents an army fighting in the battlefield helplessly without a More



  • Letters

Originality matters

Hats off to shining stars (Toppers 10th Standard), who unlike others may not go alongwith the flow. Scoring 500/500 or 1-499/500, is itself the originality, but lack of divergent thinking is oblivious More


  • Editorial

Power Debate

Taj Mohiudin has fired another salvo at NHPC, asserting that the state government was the true owner of the hydel projects run by Corporation. Taj’s statement came in the wake of the Chairman and Managing More


  • Business

Kashmir Inc asks govt to come clean on NHPC-run projects in JK

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar Jan 11: Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) today asked the government to come clean about its stand on NHPC-run power projects in the state. Welcoming minister for PHE Taj Mohiuddin More


  • Sports

IISM ski course concludes in Gulmarg

Srinagar, Jan 11: The first ski course of Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering (IISM) concluded in Gulmarg.  The graduation ceremony was attended by Brig Ashok Abbey of Rasthriya Rifles as More


  • Kashmir

BJP MP acknowledges Geelani’s stand on HR issues

Kashmir Committee to fight cases of youth detained under PSA

Srinagar, Jan 11: Senior BJP leader and Supreme Court lawyer Ram Jethmalani has said that Kashmir Committee headed by him is weighing options of fighting the cases of Kashmiri detained under controversial More


  • Srinagar City

SMC confirms Ghotala

Reveals more of muck *No audit conducted since 2006 Accused millionaire clerks, Safaiwalas chargesheeted *Commissioner says probe will be taken to logical conclusion

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Jan 11: A day after Greater Kashmir exposed a scam worth millions of rupees in the Srinagar Municipal Corporation, the SMC officials confirmed the fraud adding that they had been investigating More



  • Jammu

Banihal areas affected due to snow: Shaheen to CM

SEEKS COLLEGE FOR UKHARHAL

Jammu, Jan 11: National Conference leader from Banihal, Sajjad Shaheen today apprised the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah that power, water and essential supplies have been adversely affected in major areas More


  • South Asia

Army, Pak Govt at loggerheads

Gen Kayani meets Principal Staff Officers

REZAUL H LASKAR

Islamabad, Jan 11: The Pakistan Army today changed the commander of a Rawalpindi-based unit that has traditionally played a vital role in military coups as army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani gathered More


  • PaK

2 more ministers inducted in PaK cabinet

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Jan 11: Pakistan Administered Kashmir President, Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan today administered oath to two ruling Peoples Party legislators, one of them his daughter, as members of the PaK More



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