Omar is through halfway

Invokes Dickens, Destiny To Describe His Tenure

AKSHAY AZAD

Jammu, Jan 5: With the National Conference-Congress coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir completing three years in office on Thursday, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is set to occupy the hot seat for full six-year term."It were the best of times, it were the worst of times." This was how Omar More

Thanks Sonia for support

Meet Quells Demand For Rotational CM

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Jan 5: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Thursday evening and profusely thanked for the party’s unstinted support to the coalition Government.The high-power meeting took place at Gandhi’s official residence amidst strong indications that Omar would More

Government takes bureaucracy on board to mark 3 years in office

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 5: Unlike past, National Conference–Congress coalition Government today took bureaucracy on board to celebrate its three years in power in Jammu and Kashmir.At the function to release a compendium in the lawns of Civil Secretariat here, the entire staff of civil secretariat, including More

Soz conspicuous with his absence

Jammu, Jan 5: Though most of the Congress ministers and MLAs were present in the function, President Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Prof Saif-ud-Din was conspicuous with his absence. However, a party leader said that Soz was in Delhi, where Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was to present More

Ousted BJP MLAs attend

Jammu, Jan 5: Despite the fact that entire opposition was absent from the function, the presence of ousted Members of Legislative Assembly of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) raised many questions.All the seven ousted MLAs of BJP including Chaman Lal Gupta, Garu Ram Bhagat, Jagdish Sapolia, Durga Dass More

Machil record dilutes CM’s ‘speedy justice’ idiom

Govt Yet To File Objections

MUSHTAQ AHMAD

Srinagar, Jan 5: Though the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has asserted that “his government will move to any court to provide justice” to the family of Altaf Ahmad Sood killed by CISF personnel in Boniyar on Monday, in Machil fake encounter killings the state government has not even filed objections More

Police probe nails CISF claim

‘Firing Unprovoked; 90 Bullets Fired In Retaliation To Few Stones’

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Jan 5: Contrary to the claims of Director General Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), NR Das, that his men had to act only after agitating people turned violent and started ransacking the NHPC facility at Boniyar on Monday, the investigation carried out by the police reveals that More

Centre will allow delivery of justice: Omar

Jammu, Jan 5: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said probe into the CISF firing on protestors against power shortage in Boniyar would be taken to its logical conclusion and assured that the Centre would allow law to take its own course."Keeping in with their commitment in ensuring justice More

‘Kashmir can be resolved bilaterally’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Washington, Jan 5: The US today said it believes that Kashmir issue can be best resolved through bilateral channels between India and Pakistan and praised the resumption of talks between the two neighbors."The US believes that this (Kashmir) issue is best solved in bilateral channels. We've been More

Driver killed, 2 injured as snow clearance machine overturns

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, Jan 5: With parts of Kashmir valley witnessing snowfall, the driver of a snow clearance machine died on Thursday in South Kashmir’s Damhal Hanjipora while two others were injured as the vehicle turned turtle.Reports stated that a snow clearance machine overturned while on duty at Dathar More

Protests in Delina over power scarcity

ALTAF BABA

Baramulla, Jan 5: Protests were held on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway at Delina in Baramulla district on Thursday against erratic power supply in the area.Eyewitnesses told Greater Kashmir that hundreds of people took to the streets in Delina this morning to protest the erratic power supply in More

It has been 3 years of failures: Mehbooba

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 5: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti today regretted that Omar Abdullah had ‘failed to convert the unstinted support of the Centre and his coalition partners into welfare of the State that he has ruled for three years with disastrous impact on all aspects of life More

GM NHPC dies of heart attack

Uri (Baramulla), Jan 5: The General Manager of National Hydro-electric Power Corporation (NHPC), P C Gautam, died of a heart attack in Uri township of north Kashmir's Baramulla district Thursday morning, officials said. More

2 labourers crushed to death

Srinagar, Jan 5: Two labourers were crushed to death by a sliding stone inside a cement factory at Khonmoh here, police said on Thursday. Muhammad Maqbool, of Khrew and Sujeet Kumar Sharma, from Bihar More

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Preventive detention only for justifiable reasons: SC

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 5: The Supreme Court has said that a person cannot be detained under the preventive detention law like National Security Act (NSA) without justifiable reasons as otherwise it would impinge More