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Govt in catch-22 situation over SVC constitution

Law Department, GAD On Job To Find Answers To Governor’s Queries On Nominations

FIRDOUS TAK

Jammu, July 2: Jammu and Kashmir government is finding itself on a sticky wicket over its decision to recommend former Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda to head yet to be setup state’s maiden Vigilance Commission.Informed sources revealed that a high level panel from the state’s Law and More


Separatists to ‘confront’ Islamabad on Kashmir

Pakistan FS Arrives In New Delhi Today

JAVAID MALIK

Srinagar, July 2: Pakistan Foreign Secretary, Jalil Abbas Jilani, who will be meeting the Kashmiri separatist leaders in New Delhi on Tuesday, is likely to face some ‘plain-speaking’ as the separatist camp has decided to corner Islamabad for having agreed to discuss all issues with India except Kashmir More


VALLEY HOSPITALS SAN MANPOWER

Posts Of Specialists, Assistant Surgeons, Paramedics Vacant

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, July 2: Hospitals across the Valley are short of manpower with posts of specialists and assistant surgeons lying vacant besides positions of paramedical staff, nurses and class IV employees.Administrative sources told Greater Kashmir that government was not filling the posts of specialists More


Beg writes to Chidambaram

ASSAULT ON KASHMIRI STUDENTS

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, July 2: With ‘assault’ on Kashmiri students in Haryana evoking widespread resentment in Kashmir, Member Parliament Dr Mehboob Beg has written a letter to the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram seeking his intervention in the matter.In a letter, a copy of which is with Greater Kashmir More


Delhi aiming to settle non-locals in Valley: Geelani

‘KPs Welcome To Return And Inhabit Their Native Places’

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, July 2: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Monday opposed the ‘plan of establishing settlements for Pandits in Kashmir’, saying that New Delhi wants to settle non-local elements in the Valley under the garb of settling Pandits in these colonies.” Geelani appealed More


Smells conspiracy behind wooing Israeli tourists

Srinagar, July 2: Syed Ali Shah Geelani Monday said that the ‘visit of Director Tourism Kashmir to Israel’ is part of a conspiracy to bring in Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to Kashmir.“Through it, they want to bring Mossad agents here to fulfill their plans,” he said.The remarks of Geelani More


Cross-LoC bus service resumes

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Poonch, July 2: Cross-LoC bus service was resumed Monday from Poonch district, two weeks after its suspension due to unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops.90 members of divided families from Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) crossed between the two sides on weekly trans More





  • Briefs

PAC seeks time-bound completion of road projects

Srinagar, July 2: A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee of Legislative Assembly on Roads and Buildings (R&B) was held here on Monday under the chairmanship of MLA Rafi Ahmed Mir. An official More




  • Opinion

Times have changed?

All behaved with maturity. Good news

Impressions

BINOO JOSHI

No two situations can be compared. Here are  four, and the public response was different in all the four situations : the siege of Hazratbal shrine in 1993 and 1996;  burning  down of the More



  • GK Magazine

Decolonising Sheikh-ul-Alam

Professor G M Shad’s Collection Attempts to Present the Essence of the Saint’s Poetry

BOOK REVIEW

PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD ASLAM

Book: Kalam-I-Sheikh-Ul-Alam (Poetry of Sheikh-ul-Alam)Editor-Translator: Professor Ghulam Muhammad ShadYear of Publication: 2012Publisher: Ali Muhammad &SonsPages: 408Price: 200/-Kalam-i-Sheikh-ul More




  • Letters

Load shedding

 This refers to the power shortage facing Kashmir at present. During 70’s and 80’s, load shedding would start from March till October or November. But as years pass, other states are making progress More



  • Editorial

Restore Trade

The mother of all CBMs between India and Pakistan, the Cross-LoC travel and trade, is in peril. The suspension of trade and travel through the Rawlakot-Poonch route for an indefinite period and creating More



  • Business

JK Bank stock price Rs1010

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 2: J&K Bank share price today crossed Rs 1,000 mark.  While the share hit Rs 1010 on BSE and Rs 1011 on NSE, it closed at Rs 1001 on BSE and Rs 993.55 on NSE.  More than 1 More



  • Sports

PDC-B crushes Kulgam

14TH POLICE MEMORIAL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT

Srinagar, July 2: In the ongoing 14th Police Memorial Football Tournament, six matches were played at two venues Polo Ground and Bakshi Stadium here on Monday. In the first match of the day, Late More



  • Kashmir

PDP hoodwinking people: Rana

Wachi (Shopian) July 2:  Political Advisor to the Chief Minister Devender Singh Rana on Monday  alleged that the People’s Democratic Party has always hoodwinked the people by raising hollow slogans More



  • Srinagar City

MANEKA GANDHI UNVEILS HER MISSION KASHMIR

Prominent animal rights activist and senior parliamentarian says she’s in Srinagar to protect human lives not dogs

GK Exclusive

M HYDERI

SHE comes from country’s prominent Nehru-Gandhi political clan. She is Member Parliament for the seventh time. She happens to be third senior most Parliamentarian and has remained minister in four governments More




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For those who want to write for Greater Kashmir

Our contributors are our capital. We honor each word we receive from them.They add variety to our opinion pages. An ever widening canvas of our writers including students, teachers, civil servants, technocrats More




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