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Militants attack army patrol near Pampore

Soldier Killed, Another Injured; Gunmen Decamp With AK-47 Rifle

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, July 7: Militants Saturday afternoon attacked Army’s Corridor Protection Party (CPP) on Srinagar-Jammu highway near saffron town Pampore killing a Rashtriya Rifles (RR) soldier on the spot and injuring another.Militants fled from the spot alongwith the AK-47 assault rifle of the deceased More


Army exercised restraint: GOC

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 7: General Officer Commanding (GOC) 15 Corps, Lieutenant General Om Prakash, Friday said that Army exercised restraint while dealing with the situation at Pampore, where militants attacked and killed a soldier and injured another.In a statement, Gen Prakash said that the incident More


LeT claims responsibility

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, July 7: Militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) Saturday claimed that its cadres killed two Army personnel at Pampore and decamped with a rifle.“Cadres from LeT attacked Army personnel at Pampore on Saturday afternoon and killed two of them. They also decamped with a rifle of a killed More


HARD WORK, PERSEVERANCE: KAS TOPPERS’ MANTRA

Topper, Runner-Up Make It In Third Attempt

RANJANA CHARAK

Jammu, July 7: Work hard and focus on your goals is the simple mantra of almost all those candidates who made it to the top 10 in the Combined Services Examination (CSE), results of which was declared Friday.This year fairer sex excelled by clinching most of the top positions in the prestigious More


5 Amarnath Yatris die: toll 42

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, July 7: Five Amarnath pilgrims, including two Delhiites, died of cardiac arrest en route to Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir, taking the toll in the ongoing yatra to 42, officials said today.Parveen Kumar (32) and Balbir Singh (70), both residents of Delhi, died at Brarimarg and More


JK suffers governance paralysis: Mufti Sayeed

‘Rs 268 Cr Surrendered In Mughal Road’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Shopian, July 7: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed Saturday said the governance-deficit in the state is worse than paralysis “with the Mughal road becoming one of its victims.”Addressing a public meeting here today Mufti said it was scandalous that an amount of Rs 268 More


Dress code diktat media creation: Chief Minister

Omar Stands With Jama’at; Says They Have Already Clarified

ASHWANI LANGEH

Jammu, July 7: Absolving Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) from having imposed any dress code on tourists in Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday blamed the national media for blowing the issue out of proportion and distorting the facts “as a dismaying tactics to gain TRP (Television Rating Point)”.< More


Mufti Sayeed’s nephew dies in road mishap

Thousands Join Jinaza Of Peer Rafiq

GK NEWS NETWORK

Islamabad, July 7: A revered religious figure of South Kashmir, Peer Rafiq Ahmad, passed away after a speedy vehicle hit him at Mattan early this morning in this South Kashmir district.Thousands of people, including many politicians, thronged his native place Aishmuqam, to pay tributes and participate More





  • Briefs

Northern Army Commander briefs Governor

Srinagar, July 7: Lt Gen K T Parnaik, Northern Army Commander, called on N N Vohra, Governor, at Raj Bhavan here this evening. During their hour long meeting, the Northern Army Commander briefed the More



  • News

Fake terror cases will marginalize Muslims: Majlis-e-Mushawarat

‘Displaced Pandits Should Be Rehabilitated Among General Population’

GK MONITORING DESK

New Delhi, July 7: All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat Saturday vowed to address the issue of “random arrests of Muslim youth in the name of fighting terrorism.” The Working Committee of the All More




  • Opinion

Hyo Sajada!!!!

A brilliant piece of writing puts author in the dock

WRITE HAND

AJAZ UL HAQUE

Hyo Shabira is a heart-rending tale of a boy whose father and two uncles fell to bullets. (July 2, Greater Kashmir). The lone breadwinner, brother to three sisters and son to a widowed mother, Shabir headed More



  • GK Careers

SCHOLARSHIP, FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

DAAD-Scholarships for Postgraduate Courses

Deadline- July 31, 2012Countries/Region- Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands, Central and South America and Central and Eastern EuropeThe German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) invites application for scholarship More




  • Business

Kashmir facing worst power crisis: Traders

Say govt has done nothing to get back NHPC-run projects

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, July 7: Kashmir Traders’ United Front (KTUF) – an amalgam of traders’ bodies, today said the state government has “done nothing to get back the power projects being run by National Hydroelectric More



  • Sports

O’Donell holds marathon training session for J&K Bank football players

Srinagar, July 7: The ongoing football promotional campaign of J&K Bank received a shot in the arm when Scott O’Donell, Director of Academies All India Football Federation (AIFF), held a marathon training More



  • Kashmir

Death of Narbal resident in AP sparks protest

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, July 7: Scores of protesters and policemen were injured in clashes after report of death of a person in Andhra Pradesh reached his home at Narbal area on Saturday.  Protesters from Soozath More



  • Srinagar City

NOWGAM TRC COMPLEX CONSTRUCTED ILLEGALLY

SDA slaps notice on Tourism Dept, seeks reply within 3 days

M HYDERI

Srinagar, July 7: The much hyped Tourist Reception Centre (TRC) at Nowgam, constructed at a cost of over Rs 12 crore and inaugurated by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is an illegal construction, which has More




  • Jammu

Highway traffic jams take toll on commuters

M M PARVAIZ

Ramban, July 7: Thousands of commuters on Jammu-Srinagar highway have to bear the brunt of being stranded for hours due to the massive traffic jams and inefficiency of the traffic department to deal with More




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