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Shun confrontation: Govt to employees

Ready For Talks: Sagar; Want Results: JCC

Face-Off

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, May 13: With the employees having called for three-day strike later this month to press for enhancement of their retirement age, the state government Sunday asked them to give up the “path of confrontation” and come forward for talks.  “There is no logic behind their (employees More

Home Secys to be on hotline

INDO-PAK THAW

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 13: India and Pakistan will soon set up a hotline between their home secretaries that will facilitate real time information sharing on terrorist threats. More than a year after New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to set up the direct communication line connecting the two top bureaucrats More

Keeping fingers crossed: India

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New York, May 13: As Indo-Pak leaders take steps to improve trade ties, India has said efforts should be made not to allow the forward movement be derailed by “entities and forces” which have held the two sides “to ransom” in the past.“We have to be careful. There are entities, forces which are More

JK to deploy ‘spotters’ on Indo-Nepal border

16 Check Points Identified: Police

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar May 13: Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to deploy former militants as its “spotters” (police or military intelligence informant) on Indo-Nepal border to keep a check on Kashmiris who use the route to enter into India. Demand for deployment of J&K police as also the former More

SC issues guidelines on admissions in medical colleges

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 13: The Supreme Court has framed a series of guidelines for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in the country, saying after July 15 each year, neither the government nor the medical or dental councils shall issue any recognition or approval for that academic year. "The commencement More



Greater Kashmir Plus GK Welfare Trust

  • Briefs

House damaged in fire incident

Srinagar, May 13: A house was partially damaged in a fire incident in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district today. Police said the fire broke out from the residential house of Irshad Ahmad Wani son of More


  • National

Kashmir has only 350 Spiral-horned Markhors

RAJAT GHAI

New Delhi/Srinagar, May 13: It is an animal that is as much an icon of Kashmir as the beautiful Dal Lake and its shikaras. The magnificent spiral-horned Markhor, the largest member of the goat family, More



  • Opinion

Being timid

We need a viable political organization competent enough to take decisions on its own

PUNCHLINE

Z.G. MUHAMMAD

It was a storm in teacup. That is how I looked at the ripples caused within a faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHCM)   by the statement of its former Chairman Abdul Gani Bhat More


  • GK Magazine

The legend will live through his songs

Remembering Vijay Malla

MAJID MAQBOOL AND MUHAMMAD TAHIR LOOK BACK AT THE LEGACY AND THE TRAIL OF MEMORIES THE GREAT SINGER HAS LEFT BEHIND HIM.

Renowned Kashmiri singer Vijay Kumar Malla, who passed away on May 9 after suffering from a heart attack at his residence in Jammu, was a household name in the valley. In his signature voice he had perfected More



  • Letters

Power cuts

The power development department has taken people of the state for granted. In the sweltering heat of Jammu there is no system of power distribution. Frequent power cuts have become order of the day. While More


  • Editorial

G B Pant Deaths

For the past some days, Valley’s only children healthcare institution, G B Pant Hospital is in news. But not for good reasons. There are reports of several children dying from lack of the timely attention More


  • Business

Air India strike worries Valley tourism players

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, May 13: Where it has caused much inconvenience to the passengers outside the state, the Air India pilot strike has fairly affected the tourism industry in the Valley, with tourism traders facing More


  • Sports

Chib elected President of JK Bharat Scouts & Guides

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, May 13: Minister for Medical Education, Technical Education, Youth Services and Sports RS Chib was on Sunday elected new President of J&K Bharat Scouts and Guides. The Minister took the More


  • Kashmir

LOC will fall like Berlin wall: Yasin Malik

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, May 13: The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik on Sunday said “artificial” Line of Control (LoC) dividing two Kashmirs would crumble like the Berlin Wall More


  • Srinagar City

SPCA TOP BRASS RESIGNED much before AWBI directive

We were fed up of dog issue, says former President

DOG MENACE BUSINESS PART IV!

M HYDERI

Srinagar, May 13: Breaking its prolonged silence, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals erstwhile top brass including the President and the Vice-President said they were so fed up of the More



  • Jammu

JMC MAKES FITNESS TEST MANDATORY FOR FOOD HANDLERS

RANJANA CHARAK

Jammu, May 13: The food handlers – from chefs in restaurants to road side eateries – will have to pass a fitness test before seeking extension of the mandatory license in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu More


  • South Asia

Not enough evidence to arrest Hafiz Saeed: Gilani

London, May 13: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that there was insufficient evidence to arrest Lashkar-e-Toiba founder, Hafiz Saeed and even if the Mumbai terror attacks mastermind More


  • World

Clinton, Sonia, Nooyi among 'world's powerful moms'

INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

Washington, May 13: India's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Pepsico's India-born CEO Indra Nooyi figure in Forbes' World's 20 Most Powerful Moms list topped by US More


  • Pak

Kashmiri migrant kids stage rally on Mothers’ Day

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, May 13: Young Kashmiri migrants staged a rally here on Sunday to pay tributes to Kashmiri mothers. Coinciding with the World Mothers’ Day, the rally also drew attention of the United More



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