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5 militants killed in Uri

First Infiltration Bid Foiled This Year; Army Using UAVs On LoC

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, May 10: Army Thursday said that they have killed five militants in an encounter while foiling an infiltration bid in Uri Sector of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to Army, this was the first infiltration bid that has been foiled this year.Giving details of the gun-battle More

Draft 12th Five Year Plan approved

161 INDIAN SYSTEM OF MEDICINE DOCTORS TO BE REGULARIZED

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, May 10: The State Cabinet which met here under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday approved the draft 12th five year plan for Jammu and Kashmir besides Okaying the regularization of 161 doctors from Indian System of Medicines.The plan will be now taken up with the More

10 OFFICERS SHIFTED

Zaffar Posted Dir Information, Agarwal Is FC Revenue

Srinagar, May 10: In a minor reshuffle, the state government Thursday ordered transfer of 10 senior officers, including Director Information in Public Relations Department.The transfers and postings were ordered at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at the Civil Secretariat More

Budgam woman gives birth to quintuplets at LD Hospital

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, May 10: Valley’s prime maternity specialty, Lal Ded hospital, Thursday witnessed a rare scene when a 32-year-old Budgam lady gave birth to quintuplets.It was an amazing moment for the doctors, when Afroza of Larkipora village in central district Budgam gave birth to five babies - three More

Mirwaiz rules out rift in Hurriyat (M)

Asks Government Employees To Concentrate On Duties Also

KHALID GUL

Kulgam, May 10: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Thursday ruled out split in the Hurriyat Conference (M) saying a conglomerate was bound to have difference of opinion.“Hurriyat is not a single entity but a coalition of different parties and it may sound at times that we are speaking in different voices. In More

Bilal apologizes

GK NEWS NETWORK

Kulgam, May 10: Seeking apology from the people on the incident involving him and Shabir Shah, Peoples Conference Chairman Bilal Gani Lone Thursday said that joining pro-freedom movement was his moral decision and nobody has the authority to question it.Speaking during the delegates’ meet organized More

PLAN ALLOCATION DELAY PLUNGES JK INTO FISCAL MESS

Govt Manages Expenditure From Non-Plan Head

FIRDOUS TAK

Jammu, May 10: Inordinate delay in allocation of annual plan for the current financial year by the Planning Commission of India has put the Jammu and Kashmir government in quandary – especially due to the limited financial resources and working season.If sources within the power corridors are More

Govt creates independent STU

PRIVATIZING POWER DISTRIBUTION

Srinagar, May 10: In a move aimed at privatization of the state’s power distribution system, Jammu and Kashmir government Thursday ordered establishment of State Transmission Utility (STU).The new utility shall comprise two Systems and Operation Wings with one each functioning from Kashmir and More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

SFC employees body extend support to JCC

Srinagar: The State Forest Corporation Employees Association Thursday lauded the employees for supporting the strike call given by the Joint Consultative Committee.  In a statement a spokesperson More


  • National

SC permits convicted Pakistan scientist to visit his country

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, May 10: Relief finally came for the octogenarian Pakistani microbiologist, M Kahlil Chishti, awarded life term in a two decade old murder case, after Supreme Court permitted him to visit his More



  • Opinion

What will happen to Kashmir?

Do we have an answer to a question which haunts us all

MY TAKE BY M ASHRAF

The decades old uncertainty about Kashmir’s future has made almost every Kashmiri a psychic! Invariably, whenever one visits some friend or relative, the most pertinent question asked is “Kasheeri kya More


  • GK Magazine

Manto: The Master Story Teller

11 May 2012 will mark the hundredth birth anniversary of Manto

REMEBERING THE GENIUS BY DR ARUN MANHAS

Saadat Hasan Manto wrote his own Epitaph six months before he died, though it does not appear on his grave in Lahore. This is what it said : “Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all secrets More



  • Letters

PDD clarifies

Kindly refer the news report “Batamaloo in darkness for resisting metering” by Fazil Qayoom published in your daily today.  We would have appreciated if the learned reporter had sought clarification More


  • Friday Focus

Ummah al-Wast

PROF G R MALIK

Some learned and curious readers of Greater Kashmir ask why the Arabic word, wast has been rendered as ‘just and balanced’ in the last ‘Friday Focus’ (GK, May 4, 2012). They further ask for a little more More


  • Business

Boulevard handicraft dealers up in arms against footpath vendors

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, May 10: The Boulevard Handicraft Dealers Thursday protested against the footpath vendors accusing them of selling low quality handicraft articles at cheaper rates.  The dealers closed their More


  • Sports

‘BCCI pumped ` 89 Cr in JK in five years’

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, May 10: While police and Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) have launched separate probes into the multi-crore scam , it has come to fore that Rs 89 crores were pumped by Board of Cricket More


  • Kashmir

SKIMS to have sarai for patients, attendants

Will Ease Stress: Dr Zargar

MANZOOR-UL-HASSAN

Srinagar, May 10: Management of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura has started the construction work on Rs 11 crore sarai (resting place) for the attendants of patients visiting More


  • Srinagar City

GOVT WAKES UP TO PARKING MESS IN CITY CENTRE

ERSTWHILE KMD BUS STAND WALL DEMOLISHED AFTER 17 YEARS

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, May 10: As if the authorities had been sleeping all these years that despite the growing traffic mess they couldn’t identify a “blunder” on their part of having failed to remove a concrete wall More



  • Jammu

JK REELS UNDER ACUTE POWER SHORTAGE

Energy Banking, Shutdown Of Salal Power Station Blamed

ASHWANI LANGEH

Jammu, May 10: Jammu and Kashmir is reeling under acute electricity crisis due to shutdown of the Salal Hydro Electric Power Station Reasi and routing of 200 Mega Watts of electricity to other states under More


  • South Asia

Indo-Pak next Siachen talks on June 11-12

REZAUL H LASKAR\PTI

Islamabad, May 10: India and Pakistan will hold their next round of talks on the military standoff on Siachen glacier in Islamabad during June 11-12 against the backdrop of renewed calls from the Pakistani More


  • Health

First ever pill to beat HIV under FDA consideration

London, May 10: Truvada, the first ever pill to beat HIV -- a breakthrough in the 30-year-old war against AIDS epidemic -- is under active consideration of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for More



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