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Highway partially open

500 Stranded Trucks Enter Valley; 10 Rescued From Gulmarg Avalanche; More Snowfall Likely Next Week

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Jan 21: After remaining closed for two days, the 300-kilometer Srinagar-Jammu highway was thrown open partially Saturday morning with 500 trucks crossing Jawahar Tunnel towards Valley by evening. Some trucks stranded at Jawahar Tunnel were also allowed to proceed towards Jammu.Talking More

SRINAGAR TO DELHI Rs 18,200

Airfares At All-Time High

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, Jan 21: Airfares from Srinagar to Delhi shot up to Rs 18200 on Saturday, an increase of about four thousand five hundred rupees as compared to Friday’s highest rate of Rs 13881.At Srinagar Airport, tickets at airline counters were sold to travellers at never-before prices, leaving them More

Approach Army camps for help: GOC

Srinagar, Jan 21: With weatherman predicting yet another spell of snowfall next week, Army on Saturday announced that civilians can get in touch with their nearest camp for assistance in case of any requirement or medical emergency.The General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Srinagar-based Chinar More

Anger grows over shortage of essentials

Police Monitor Distribution

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Jan 21: While State Government claims that stocks of essential supplies including cooking gas have reached the Valley, there is no end to rationing of the cooking gas and scarcity of essentials.Police today monitored the gas distribution at different places here indicating that the situation More

Shutdown marks Gaw Kadal killings anniversary

Srinagar, Jan 21: City center Lal Chowk and its adjoining areas observed a shutdown on Saturday to observe the 22nd anniversary of Gawkadal killings.Shops and business establishments at Lal Chowk, Budshah Chowk, Maisuma Bazar, Gawkadal, Basant Bagh, Kokerbazar, Sariabala, Gonikhan, Maharaja Bazar More

IAF airlifts civilians,soldiers from Jammu, Srinagar

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 21: Indian Air Force (IAF) today airlifted 1,675 civilians and Army personnel between Jammu and Srinagar in its heavy lift IL-76 and AN-32 transport aircrafts.As per the data provided by the defense authorities, a total of 700 people were airlifted (including Army personnel) from Jammu More

Performance key for KAS induction, promotions

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Jan 21: Going tough against the tainted and non-performing officers serving in various departments, Jammu and Kashmir Government has decided to induct officers into Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS) only on the basis of grades they will be earning during their service period.Sources More

CBI books Air Force, SBI officials for fraud

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Jan 21: Central Bureau of Investigation today registered a case against some officials of Air Force Station Awantipora for allegedly issuing fake contracts for lifting and dumping of garbage. The agency registered another case against some officials of State Bank of India Awantipora branch More

Close shave for Srinagar bound passengers

SRTC Bus On Runway, Plane Aborts Take-Off

AKSHAY AZAD

Jammu, Jan 21: The passengers of the Delhi-Jammu-Srinagar flight (554) of IndiGo Airlines had a miraculous escape on Saturday when the pilot aborted the take-off at the last moment to avoid collision with a vehicle on the runway at Jammu Airport.The flight was scheduled to take-off from Jammu More

Entrepreneurs ridicule Govt claims

RESTORATION WORK IN INDUSTRIAL ESTATES

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Jan 21: Even as the Government Friday claimed that most of the industrial estates in the Valley were made functional following the snowfall, the entrepreneurs today ridiculed the claim saying “administration was making false claims.”The entrepreneurs said there was no question of restoring More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

Jammu bound passengers cry for attention

Srinagar, Jan 21: Hundreds of Jammu bound passengers stranded here Saturday alleged that authorities have left them in lurch. “We are stuck here for the past 10 days and have approached administration More



  • Opinion

The notion of a nation

What lies behind? Conviction or compulsion?

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

I love my nation, but I have no idea that why should I love it the most. Thus goes the belief of freethinkers who see the oneness of humankind as a natural entity and all other boundaries artificial in More


  • GK Magazine

POWER PICTURE

INDUS WATER TREATY AND POWER SCENARIO OF J&K

COLUMN SERIES BY S JALAL UD DIN SHAH

There have been a lot of discussions regarding Indus Water Treaty and the Power scenario of Jammu and Kashmir. Every next day, we see articles regarding the exploitation of Indus Water Treaty. Whether More



  • Sports

Army organises sports events under 'op Sadhbavana'

Srinagar, Jan 21: Under its ‘operation Sadhbavana’ Army’s Chinar Corps organised various sports events in the Valley in 2011. Under the leadership of GOC 15 Corps, Lt Gen SA Hasnain, Chinar Corps More


  • Kashmir

Kashmiri student shot at in MP

HE IS OUT OF DANGER: IGP UJJAIN

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Jan 21: A Kashmiri student pursuing M Phil in English at Vikram University Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh was shot at and injured by assailants on Saturday. Eyewitness, Tanveer Ahmed, told Greater More


  • Srinagar City

10-year-old gets 100 DOG BITES

MAULED BY OVER A DOZEN CANINES, BAGHWAN PORA BOY BATTLES FOR LIFE AT SKIMS

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Jan 21: Over a dozen stray dogs attacked a 10-year-old boy in Baghwan Pora, Lal Bazar area of the City leaving him badly wounded with over a hundred bites.  The kid, who was returning home More



  • Jammu

NC led regime eroded credibility of democratic institutions: Mufti

Samba, Jan 21: Former Chief Minister and patron of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on Saturday regretted that the present regime headed by National Conference (NC), through its “gimmicks More



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