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India, Pak must address Kashmir: Asif Zardari

‘Important To Resolve Difficult Issues While We Open Up Trade’

NISAR AHMED THOKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Mar 17: Backing moves to open up Indo-Pak trade, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today said the two countries must also address “difficult issues” like the Kashmir dispute.Making history by becoming the first elected President to deliver a fifth address to a joint session of Parliament More

JK vulnerable to water borne diseases

Only 34% Households Get Treated Water, 15% Live In Dark

MUDDASIR ALI/UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Mar 17: More than half the population of Jammu and Kashmir continues to remain vulnerable to water borne diseases, reveals the latest census report released by Government of India.The data available shows that only 34.7 percent of state population gets tap water at home from treated More

Omar drops out of India Today conclave

New Delhi, Mar 17: A host of speakers, including Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Pakistan politician Imran Khan, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee have withdrawn their participation from the India Today Conclave that is to be attended More

Curfew lifted in Rajouri as situation eases

DC,SSP Transferred; Partial Shutdown In Jammu

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 17: Life was limping back to normalcy in border township of Rajouri with district administration lifting the day curfew following improvement in the situation.The government in a major decision has shifted both Deputy Commissioner and District Superintendent of Police Rajouri for their More

Alleged meet with Raw Chief

Yasin Malik Writes To Pak SC

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 17: Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Yasin Malik, Saturday approached Supreme Court of Pakistan seeking permission to depose before the commission appointed by it for probing the memogate. The move comes after Ijaz Mansoor, who is at the centre of the memogate controversy More

JK Bank owned, not run by State Govt: Omar

Inaugurates Bank’s 41 Business Units, 70 ATMs

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 17: Even as J&K Bank is owned by the J&K Government, it’s not run by the Government but by the bank management under the able leadership of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mushtaq Ahmad and its management team. The government is vigilant to see that there is no political More

Looking into JKCA transactions: JKB

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, Mar 17: J&K Bank Chairman Mushtaq Ahmad today said that the Bank is looking into the opening of alleged bogus accounts and financial transactions by the state cricket association in the alleged multi-crore scam.“We are looking into the matter (about transactions and opening of bogus More

Flushing exposes hidden pollution in Dal

ZAHID MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Mar 17: Recent flushing of the water from Dal Lake by Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) has exposed the hidden pollution in the water body- plastic bottles, polythene bags and other non-biodegradable waste- putting a question mark on the efforts of authorities over the years More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

Land owners of Kharpura receive Rs 32 lakh as rent payment

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar: Nearly 40 families of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district whose land has been taken over by security forces for putting up an anti-militancy camp in 2003, were paid Rs 32 lakh as rent, official More


  • National

Private sector has important role to provide quality healthcare: Azad

Belgaum, (Karnataka) Mar 17: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said private sector has to play an important role by sharing responsibilities of the State in funding medical More



  • Opinion

Rein them in

There are asylums for madcaps like Togadia

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

One wonders how government lets some mentally deranged people disturb peace. The recent Rajouri episode is a case in point where Praveen Togadia's rants set the whole scene on fire. Normally the law and More


  • GK Magazine

RETIREMENT:The Question of Ethics

Retirement is a privilege, earlier the better. Its joys are known to more informed and morally advanced souls

MUHAMMAD MAROOF SHAH

Retirement Age should be conditionally extended or not extended. The argument that in other States or in Central departments there is higher age is not warranted because our local conditions are different More



  • Business

Strict conditions keep away local transport agencies

SRTC tender notice

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Mar 17: A tender notice by State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) has evoked criticism from the local transport companies who have accused the corporation of incorporating strict conditions More


  • Sports

Forest to clash with JK Bank in final on Tuesday

2ND RAJIV GANDHI GOLD CUP FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 17: JK Forest team stormed into the final of 2nd Rajiv Gandhi Gold Cup football tournament with a hard-fought semi-final win against JK Police team at GGM Science College Jammu on Saturday More


  • Kashmir

New Delhi wants to become big military power: Geelani

Srinagar, Mar 17: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G ) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Saturday expressed serious concern over the allocation of Rs 30000 Crore for defence by New Delhi, saying that this all More


  • Srinagar City

HEALTH OFFICER RAIDS SCHOOL CANTEEN

Destroys rotten stuff; Warns institution heads

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Mar 17: Health Officer, Dr Rubeena Shaheen and her squad from the civic body Saturday raided a canteen of a prominent private school for boys in the City and found  that unhygienic food More



  • Jammu

Guv Inaugurates North Zone Conference On Mediation

‘4 Crore Cases Pending In Various Courts’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 17: Governor N N Vohra on Saturday called for taking all the required measures to promote the concept of Mediation as an Alternative Dispute Resolution method for providing speedy justice to More


  • World

Osama planned to kill Obama,attack US: Report

LALIT K JHA\PTI

Washington, Mar 17: In his final days, al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was planning assassination attempts against US President Barack Obama and another attack on the American soil, according to a media More



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