- TOP STORIES
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
Old is Gold
A view of Hariparbat Fort in Srinagar’s old city captured by GK Photo Editor Habib Naqash on Monday evening.
Greenery all around
A spectacular view of Yusmarg captured by GK Photo Editor Habib Naqash.
Miscreants provoking people
JKLF Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, on Saturday visited Gund HasiBhat village in central Kahsmir and the gutted shrine of Hazrat Dastgeer Sahib (RA) at Khanyar in old city.
Normalcy Returns
After remaining paralyzed for 5-days, life returned to normal in Srinagar on Saturday. Aman Farooq/GK
Life returns to normal
Authorities on Saturday lifted restrictions around Dastgeer Sahib (RA) shrine following which life returned to normal in the area. Wani Burhan/ Citizen Journalist
Enjoying Hartal
Kids enjoy cycle ride amidst shutdown and restrictions in Srinagar’s old city on Friday. Rohit Pandit/GK
Heritage lost
A paramilitary CRPF man walks near gutted Dastgeer Sahib (RA) Shrine at Khanyar in old city on Friday. Habib Naqash/GK
Life paralyzed
Severe restrictions and shutdown paralyzed normal life in the Kashmir Valley for 5th consecutive day on Friday. Habib Naqash/GK
LoC Mela.......
Pak Rangers present a holy chader to paramilitary BSF men near Line of Control in Jammu on Thursday. Mir Imran/GK
College gutted in Bandipore
Massive fire destroyed Mehboobul Allam College at Kaloosa in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday. Suhail Ajmal/GK
- 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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