• TOP STORIES

2 months on, windstorm victims wait for relief

Have Sent The Requisition For Funds To Govt: Div Com

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, May 12: Two months after a ravaging windstorm hit the valley killing four persons and leaving hundreds of people roofless, the state government is yet to provide relief to the victims even after having declared the storm a natural calamity.According to official estimates over 15000 buildings More

Another baby dies at GB Pant Hospital

More Infants ‘Almost Dead’ In ICU; Attendants Blame ‘Negligent’ Doctors

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Srinagar, May 12: Saturday evening Rafeeqa kissed her one-day old nephew for the last time at G B Pant Children’s Hospital here. As she carried him out of the Intensive Care Unit, dead, the baby’s father was in rage.Attendants accused doctors of the hospital for “killing their sons and daughters More

'We had prior info about infiltration'

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, May 12: Two days after the Uri encounter in which six militants were killed, Army Saturday claimed that they were having advance inputs about infiltration in the area.An Army spokesman of 15 Corps Saturday evening said they were getting regular inputs about infiltration in the Uri Sector More

J&K Bank Q4 net up by 50%

Financial Results Convey We Are Right On Track: Chairman

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 12: J&K Bank today posted net profit of Rs 208.12 crores for Q4 ended March 2012 which is up by 50.20 % from Rs 138.56 crores recorded for the corresponding period of the last financial year.Surpassing its set target for the FY 2011-12, the bank registered net profit of Rs 803 More

JK uses only half of allowed water share for irrigation

AKSHAY AZAD

Jammu, May 12: Jammu and Kashmir has failed to utilize even the permissible limit of the irrigation water under the controversial Indus Water Treaty.While the IWT permits Jammu and Kashmir to use the waters of the rivers covered under the treaty to irrigate 17.03 lakh acres of land but the state More

Special sittings today to mark 60 years of Parliament

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 12: The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will hold special sittings today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of first session of Indian Parliament.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will initiate the debate in the Rajya Sabha while Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will do it in the Lok More

NHRC shots notice to Centre, JK Govt

ZAHID MAQBOOL

Srinagar, May 12: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued show-cause notice to Centre and J&K Government over the killing of a youth in Boniyar area of Uri by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel in January this year.Altaf Ahmad Sood, 22, was shot dead by CISF men More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

Guv discusses yatra preparations

Srinagar, May 12: Governor N N Vohra and Chairman of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, on Saturday discussed various issues relating to the improvement of different roads and preparedness for clearance of More



  • Opinion

Contest elections

If Hurriyat really does it, will NC let them rule?

WRITE HAND

AJAZ UL HAQUE

The chief minister throws up a challenge for Hurriyat Conference. `Participate in elections and prove your representative character'.  There might be some people within the Hurriyat camp testing the More


  • GK Magazine

Growing up in Srinagar was a joy

GK LOUNGE

Khalid Mir’s first collection of Urdu poems Asbat-e-Khudi was released recently at a gala function at Delhi University. The function was attended by noted Urdu academics and scholars like Prof. Kausar More



  • Business

PM’s advisor reviews progress of Udaan, Himayat VC Kashmir

University for roping in corporators to set up software companies in Valley

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 12: S Ramadorai, advisor to Prime Minister in the National Council on Skill Development today reviewed the functioning and progress of ‘Udaan’ and ‘Himayat’— two flagship special industry More


  • Sports

DISTRICT COLLEGES HOST ANNUAL RACES

Srinagar, May 12: The Government College Baramulla organized annual road race from Sangrama junction Sopore to College Main Gate Khawja Bagh Baramulla.  The event was flagged off by the Principal More


  • Kashmir

Mir upbeat over Hurriyat showing interest in state’s development

Chewdara (Beerwah), May 12: Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir, on Saturday welcomed the response of the Hurriyat Conference for showing interest in day to day development scenario of the state More


  • Srinagar City

Govt concern towards new golf courses

ORPHANS OLDEST CLUB

As millions are spent on the greens miles apart, KGC decays under nose of authorities in this historic City

M HYDERI

SKELETONS have started tumbling out of the Kashmir Golf Club (KGC) cupboards revealing the muck of alleged step-motherly treatment to this oldest golf course –dying unheard –under the nose of the government More



  • Jammu

Political forces trying to malign my image: Dr Manohar Lal

‘I will cooperate with SAC probe’

EMBEZZLEMENTS IN COOPERATIVES

ARUN SINGH

Jammu, May 12: Reacting to the inquiry ordered by the State Accountability Commission (SAC) regarding the alleged embezzlements in the JK Cooperative Housing Corporation (JKCHC), Minister of State for More


  • Health

HIV prevention pill backed by US experts

Washington, May 12: A panel of US health experts has for the first time backed a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people. The panel recommended US regulators approve the daily pill, Truvada More


  • Career and Counseling

MEDIA as a career-II In Jammu and Kashmir

THE previous issue of career counseling focused on courses offered in various institutes across India. In this concluding part, we bring to you information regarding various courses of journalism taught More



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