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Red-tapism, litigations delay recruitments

19703 Vacancies Pending With Recruiting Agencies

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Feb 29: At a time when mounting unemployment has become a major challenge for the state government, nearly 19,703 posts are lying vacant in various government departments, mainly due to tardy recruitment process and litigations.As per official figures, the process for filling of 510 posts More

Shrinking investment takes toll on power sector

Fund Allocation Goes Down From 26% To 14%

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Feb 29: Behind Jammu and Kashmir’s under-development in the power generation sector lie ever falling investments and neglect by the State Government, an official report has pointed out.For past 30 years the Government has not invested to generate on average even one percent of the required More

Violation of property usage unabated in capital cities

744 Residential Buildings In Jammu,181 In Srinagar Commercialized In 5 Yrs

ASHWANI LANGEH

Jammu, Feb 29: In the blatant violation of the provisions of Control of Buildings Operations Act 1988, regulating the land and property use in the state, nearly 744   residential buildings have been converted into commercial establishments in Jammu city and about 181 in Srinagar city during More

China may grab territory in Ladakh, Arunachal: Report

‘India Should Respond With A Strategy Of Quid Pro Quo’

INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

New Delhi, Feb 29: China may resort to territorial grabs, including through a ‘major military offensive’, especially in Arunachal Pradesh or Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, and India should respond with ‘a strategy of quid pro quo’, says a report by an independent group of Indian analysts.“Our frontiers More

MEDIA ENDS ASSEMBLY BOYCOTT

Speaker Clarifies His Remarks

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 29: The three day long deadlock between media and Speaker Legislative Assembly Muhammad Akbar Lone ended today after the latter clarified his remarks about the media saying that what he said was only confined to the proceedings of the House.During the meeting with the protesting journalists More

Government examining Biloria Commission report

Creation Of New Administrative Units

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 29: Jammu and Kashmir government is examining the report of a high level committee, headed by former chief secretary SS Biloria, for creation of new administrative units in the state.In a written reply to a question asked by Doda MLA Abdul Majid Wani, Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla said More

2 Kashmiri youth held in Delhi

LeT Module Busted: PC

Srinagar/New Delhi, Feb 29: Two youth arrested by Delhi Police on Wednesday on the charges of planning to carry out bomb blasts in New Delhi hail from north Kashmir’s Sopore area, sources said.They identified the arrested youth as Ahtisham Malik and Tauseef Peer.Sources said the JK Police More

Elevations, reshuffle in J&K Bank

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 29: Besides a major reshuffle of portfolios, Jammu & Kashmir Bank Wednesday promoted four of its Vice-presidents to the posts of President.Those elevated as Presidents are Abdul Rashid, Muhammad Syed Wani, Surender Krishan Bhat and Nayeemullah.For the first time, the Bank More



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  • Briefs

No hike in passport fee: RPO

Srinagar, Feb 29: The Regional Passport Officer Srinagar, K K Verma today said that there hasn’t been any hike in the passport fee. Dispelling the rumours, Verma said there hasn’t been any instruction More


  • National

MHA convenes high-level meeting on March 9

Chief Secretaries, Police Heads To Deliberate Issue

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Feb 29: In a bid to end logjam over the issue of setting up NCTC, the Centre has convened a high-level meeting on March 9 to address the concerns of non-Congress chief ministers who opposed More



  • Opinion

The Mathematics of Lapse

It’s a realm where all calculations yield a zero

INKSIGHT BY MEHMOOD-UR-RASHID

Here is a joke. A hot-headed student accosted the head of his department in Kashmir University. Throwing an attitude, he asked him to arrange a tour for their batch. Knowing what kind of a person his student More


  • GK Magazine

It can fetch you a JOB

FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS AN UNEXPLORED TERRITORY IN KASHMIR

AFTER 12TH BY MUHAMMAD TAHIR

It is always a tense and demanding task to choose a right career after board examsNow that 12th class board results have been declared, those who tasted the sweet success might be thinking hard for what More



  • Letters

Esteemed dogs

With great respect I have a word for you. You esteemed dogs of Kashmir are very dangerous and make our movement on roads very difficult. I may seek your attention that I need to go to school, but you don More


  • Editorial

Integrating J&K

If anything the outgoing winter has once again underlined the continuing isolation of the Valley from the rest of the world. In fact, it is not only the Valley proper that suffers this fate, Ladakh remains More


  • Business

Kashmiri student develops social networking website

Obtains copy right

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 29: In a rare feat, a computer science student of central Kashmir’s Budgam district has developed a social networking site, Mateglobe – a way to new globe, at Punjab Technical University More


  • Sports

Sachin in,Sehwag rested for Asia Cup

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Mumbai, Feb 29: Stalwarts Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan were on Wednesday 'rested' while Yusuf Pathan and Ashok Dinda staged a comeback as the selectors refrained from cracking the whip on non-performers More


  • Kashmir

Geelani visits World Book Fair in New Delhi

Interacts With People From Different Muslim Countries

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 29: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Wednesday appealed to the Muslim youth to rise above their maslaki and group differences and put in their efforts to establish More


  • Srinagar City

As rights activists defend killer dogs, newborn calf dies unheard in City centre

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Feb 29: It’s an unusual scene in the backyard of Kashmir’s media hub –the Mushtaq Memorial Press Enclave –where a parking lot caters to the busy City centre. The sunset is approaching fast and More



  • Jammu

PM’s rehabilitation package fails to attract KP migrants

'Not a single family returns to Valley'

AKSHAY AZAD

Jammu, Feb 29: The efforts of State as well as Central Government for the return of Kashmiri Pandit migrants to Kashmir are proving futile as not even a single migrant family has returned to the Valley More


  • South Asia

All-inclusive dialogue imperative to resolve K-issue: Saghar

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Feb 29: The convener of Hurriyat Conference (M) Pak chapter Mehmood Ahmed Saghar on Wednesday said the solution of Kashmir dispute was possible either through the implementation of the long More


  • World

XINJIANG PUT ON HIGH ALERT AFTER 20 DEATHS

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Beijing, Feb 29: China has put its volatile Xinjiang province, bordering Pakistan administered Kashmir, on high alert after at least 20 people including seven militants were killed yesterday in the region More



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