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AFSPA should go: UN Rapporteur

‘The Law Has Become Symbol Of Excessive State Power Resulting In Consuming Innocent Lives’

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Mar 30: A senior United Nations (UN) official on Friday called for repeal of controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Jammu and Kashmir Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) and Public Safety Act (PSA).“AFSPA allows the state to override rights. Such a law has no role in a democracy More

Civil Society threatens agitation

‘JK Govt Maintaining Criminal Silence’

RETURN OF NHPC-RUN POWER PROJECTS

MUDDASIR ALISrinagar, Mar 30: A civil society group here on Friday warned that Government of India’s unwillingness to transfer three power projects “illegally and unconstitutionally occupied” by its subsidiary, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), in Jammu and Kashmir More

HC permits Govt to utilize water usage fee

Jammu, Mar 30: In a significant order of for reaching consequences, Jammu and Kashmir High Court Friday permitted the State Government to utilize the money collected from NHPC as water usage charges.“Permission is granted with the condition that in case the petitioner succeeds, the respondents More

Panic grips Srinagar: Police, rumours out on streets

Mock Drills Part Of Routine Policing: Sahai

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 30: Panic gripped the summer capital on Friday morning when hundreds of police and paramilitary CRPF men in full riot gear suddenly appeared at various places in the city affecting the normal life for more than two hours. However, police termed it a routine exercise.Witnesses said More

57287 kanals of evacuee land under forces’ occupation: Govt

Jammu, Mar 30: Jammu and Kashmir government Friday said that 57287 kanals of evacuee land is under occupation of Army and paramilitary forces in the state.“The evacuee land has been rented out to Army/Paramilitary in the state on requisition basis and defense authorities pay rent in respect of More

Govt indecisive on cooperative banks' revival plan

Tanveer Given Additional Charge Of Health; Shah Re-Employed As Director Horticulture

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 30: State Cabinet Friday returned the proposal of Department of Cooperatives for re-capitalization of two cooperative banks in the state which are on verge of bankruptcy.Sources said that there was no consensus on the proposal to pump Rs 203 crores in Jammu Central Cooperative Bank More

What stops Omar from repealing PSA: Wajahat

‘India, Pak Should Allow Kashmiris To Express Themselves’

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Mar 30: National Minority Commission (NMC) chairman Wajahat Habibullah has said the draconian laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and J&K Public Safety Act (PSA) have no place in a democratic system such as India. He said the Government of India should allow the More

House Committee picks holes in RDD functioning

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Mar 30: The Legislative Assembly Committee on Government Assurances in its report has picked holes in the functioning of Rural Development Department, particularly with regard to implementation of various centrally sponsored schemes.The House Committee report, tabled in the House recently More

265 SPOs, 52 VDC members killed since 1990

Jammu, Mar 30: The state government Friday said that at least 265 SPOs and 52 Village Defence Committee (VDC) members were killed in the state since 1990.Replying to a question by Sheikh Ghulam Qadir Pardesi and Naresh Kumar Gupta, the Minister for Rural Development, Ali Muhammad Sagar informed More



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  • Briefs

Body recovered

Srinagar, Mar 30: Police on Friday said that it recovered a body of Kareem Khari alias Kema Khan, 65, son of Sain Khari of Gadool Kokernag from Nallah Brangi near Pandobal, Vailoo, in south Kashmir’s Islamabad More


  • National

Dr Beg stages silent protest in Parliament

New Delhi, Mar 30: Member Parliament and senior National Conference leader Dr Mehboob Beg staged a silent protest in Lok Sabha against what he termed as double standards of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP).& More



  • Opinion

Jammed with tourists

Do we know what does that mean?

WORDS WITHIN BY FIRDOUS SYED

The noose is slowly but surely tightening. Over a period of time the long rope of ever-growing tourism is bound to hang Kashmir to a painful death. It is not out of any anti-development agenda (which the More


  • GK Magazine

Reminisces of HMT Srinagar

ONCE UPON A TIME I WAS A PART OF THE CORPORATE CULTURE THAT HMT SYMBOLIZED. THE FACTORY IS NO MORE BUT THE NAME STUCK TO THE PLACE; WE NOW HAVE ECH-EM-TEE BUT NO HMT

MUSE OVER BY DR. NAZIR AHMAD GILKAR

The news in GK, March 29, 2012, titled HMT Watch Factory Out Of Revival Plan was highly discouraging and disturbing not only because of employment generation but more for work culture promoted in the organization More



  • Letters

Environment hazard

The Pahalgam Panikhar Kargil road project will threaten environment and ecological balance in the region, besides destroying the entirehimalayan range. Before proceeding, government must think about the More


  • Editorial

Power: What Next?

It was a foregone conclusion, but all it needed was a little more explicit admission. Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s implicit counsel to the J&K government to focus on new power projects More


  • Business

IT exemption to Industry: JK yet to get any signal from centre for extension

Entrepreneurs Say Non-Extension Will Dampen Investor Confidence

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Mar 30: As the 10-year Income Tax exemption to industry sector in J&K is coming to end on March 31, state government is yet to get any signal from the centre about its extension, though minister More


  • Sports

Valley girl shines in Bangkok world event

ABID KHAN

Srinagar, Mar 30: Fighting all odds, a Valley based martial art player has shined in the World Muaythai championship by bagging silver medal in Bangkok Thailand. The 9th WMF World Muaythai championship More


  • Kashmir

Mirwaiz ‘supported’ by ISI, claims US Attorney

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Washington, Mar 30: A US attorney has claimed that Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is "supported and controlled" by ISI The Attorney Neil H MacBride made the claim before the More


  • Srinagar City

Comment Pay for visit to Tulip Garden, GET DOG SIGHT FREE

M HYDERI

BARELY a day after Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah and his mother Molly Abdullah threw open the famed Tulip Garden where the entry comes at presumably costly Rs 50 per head for breathtaking view of the delicate More



  • Jammu

Ministers spend Rs 169.81 lakh on tours in 2 years

Official Records Reveal CM Has Not Visited Any Constituency In 2010-11

AKSHAY AZAD

 Jammu, Mar 30: The government records reveal the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has not visited any constituency of the state during the year (2010-11), while other ministers have expended Rs 169.81 More


  • South Asia

Afghan policeman kills 9 colleagues, joins Taliban

PRESS TRUET OF INDIA

Kabul, Mar 30: An Afghan policeman today shot dead nine of his colleagues, including his brother, as they slept and fled with their weapons in a truck to join Taliban ranks in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika More


  • World

US court sentences Dr Fai to 2 years in jail

‘He can continue to work for cause of Kashmiri people from prison’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Washington, Mar 30: A US court on Friday sentenced Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai to two years in jail on charges of illegally working for Pakistani spy agency ISI to influence American policy on Kashmir.Fai, 62,& More



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