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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
Beating the Heat
A man takes a dip in Dal Lake in Srinagar on a hot and humid Friday. Mubashir Khan/GK
‘Protest against locking of Sopori’s house’
Police on Friday prevented separatists from staging a protest against Police locking the house of Hurriyat worker Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori at Chanapora on city outskirts. Habib Naqash/GK
Farming outsourced
Non-local labourers work in a paddy field on city outskirts in Srinagar on Thursday. Habib Naqash/GK
Petrol Crisis. Aman Farooq/GK
A Petrol Pump vendor tries to set ablaze the pump at Batmaloo following a scuffle over petrol crisis in the Valley. Oil tankers association had gone on a strike following a killing of the driver near
Having fun
Tourists throng Nishat garden in Srinagar on Tuesday. Aman Farooq/GK
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.
- 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





