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Valleyites drink contaminated water: Study

Experts Worried Over Presence Of Alarmingly High Coliform Bacteria Count

Concern

IMRAN MUZAFFAR Srinagar, Mar 18: People in Kashmir are consuming contaminated water and are under severe threat of water-born diseases as tap water contamination has gone beyond the permissible limits, a study has revealed. The findings have brought to fore that the Coliform More

CRICKET SHUTS KASHMIR

Valleyites Stay Indoors To Watch India, Pak Game

ROUF BHAT

Srinagar, Mar 18: With two arch cricket rivals of the sub-continent, India and Pakistan facing each other in an important Asia Cup match on Sunday, Kashmir valley was almost shut in the afternoon. Most of owners of business establishments, vendors etc decided to close their shops and preferred to More

World Bank aided project moves at snail’s pace

42% Funds Utilised In 4 Years For Upgradation Of Infrastructure In Technical Education Deptt

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Mar 18: A World Bank (WB) funded project for developing infrastructure for Technical Education sector in Jammu and Kashmir is being poorly implemented vis-à-vis utilization of funds, due to ‘inefficiency’ and ‘tardy planning’.  Informed sources told Greater Kashmir that the state More

Mehbooba Mufti visits old city

Srinagar, Mar 18: President of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday visited many areas of volatile old city. This was her first extensive visit to Shahr-e-Khaas in recent past. She interacted with the people and tried to ascertain the difficulties faced by them.
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Is mobile radiation killing Sparrows?

Experts Sound Caution On Ill-Effects Of Hazardous Emission On Birds

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, Mar 18: While the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests had formulated a committee to study the possible ill-effects of mobile tower radiation on birds, experts here opine that the fast diminishing number of Sparrows in the state may be the outcome of the hazardous radiation emitted More

Religious personality shot at, injured

Locals, Family Demand Probe

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, Mar 18: While Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW) conference at Ziyrat-e-Shareef Hazrat Sheikh Dawood Batamaloo Sahib (RA) was attended by thousands of devotees, they (devotees) badly missed Peer Jalal-ud-din, a prominent religious personality, who was shot at and injured by unidentified assailants More

JK spent $ 5.52 cr on Aircrafts

ASHWANI LANGEH

Jammu, Mar 18: The state government has spent a whopping $ 55212091 on its fleet of three Aircrafts/Helicopters, purchased during the last 10 years.The Aircrafts are used by the ministers and top bureaucrats in the state government for their movement to different areas and also for overseeing More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

4 die, 25 injured in accidents

Srinagar, Mar 18: Three persons died when the vehicle they were traveling in skidded off the road and fell into a river at Kapila in Kargil district, police said on Sunday.  They were traveling from More


  • National

Trivedi quits as Railway Minister

New Delhi/Kolkata, Mar 18:  Dinesh Trivedi resigned today as Railway Minister ending his defiance and bringing to a close five-day drama after he incurred the wrath of Trinamool Congress for hiking More



  • Opinion

Change the Anthem

We can't accept an anthem which doesn't mention Shah-e-Hamadan

PUNCHLINE BY Z.G. MUHAMMAD

These were three days of rediscovering ourselves. The international seminar on Mir Syed Ali Hamadani organized by the Institute of Islamic Studies, Kashmir University was ‘wide-ranging. Starting with thought More


  • GK Magazine

Stick to 58

ENHANCEMENT OF THE RETIREMENT AGE WILL ONLY ADD TO THE ALIENATION AND FRUSTRATION OF THE EDUCATED YOUTH OF OUR STATEMuzaffar Ahmad Enhancement of the retirement age, bringing it at par with that of central More



  • Letters

Reservation injustice

 Reservation was introduced in the system to reduce the economic gap between different sects of our society, but nowadays it has become the biggest element of discrimination in the name of OBC, ST More


  • Editorial

A new Indo-Pak thaw?

Pak PM Asif Ali Zardari has delivered his fifth straight address to the parliament, an achievement of sorts in a country ruled for the most part of its existence by the army. However, this distinction More


  • Business

Kashmir takes lead in NPR digitization

*Valley-based technocrat qualifies as technical committee chairman *Local consortium of IT firms delivers record results

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Mar 18: Till now Kashmir was only being compared with Silicon Valley in the US given its climatic conditions being viewed as ideal for development of Information and Communication Technology More


  • Sports

MAGNIFICENT KOHLI STARS IN RECORD CHASE AGAINST PAK

Asia Cup

Mirpur, Mar 18: Led by Virat Kohli's magnificent 183, India stayed in contention of the Asia Cup final berth as they crushed arch-rivals Pakistan by six wickets at Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur More


  • Kashmir

Raise HR violations issue at international forums: Mirwaiz to OIC

Srinagar, Mar 18: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has asked Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to raise the issue of human rights violations committed in Jammu and Kashmir More


  • Srinagar City

PICTURESQUE SRINAGAR CRAVES FOR TREES, NATURAL SUNSHADE

Experts say time ideal for a plantation, lay stress on conifers

M HYDERI

EVEN though this summer Capital is bountifully blessed with natural beauty of sorts ranging from mountain ranges to forests, to hillocks, lakes, river and streams; Srinagar could be the only tourist destination More



  • Jammu

NRHM projects running behind schedule

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Mar 18: With many projects taken up under centrally sponsored National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) running behind the schedule, the government has stopped to conduct fresh survey to take up new More


  • South Asia

MFN status to India should not be made an issue: Gilani

Lahore, Mar 18: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said the move to give Most Favoured Nation-status to India should not be made an issue as Pakistan is interested in boosting trade with neighbouring More



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