When Kashmir mechanic got stuck with UN observers during 1965 Indo-Pak war

Najar’s 45-Year Stint At UNMOGIP Office In Srinagar Earned Him Gold Medal, Peace Prize

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Jan 31: He was just 15 when he landed at the office of the United Nations Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) at Sonwar here. A mechanic by profession, little did he know that the wheel of his fate would catapult in a direction where the UN would become a source of survival More

‘Unrest’ in JK Congress

Leaders Smell Conspiracy, Express Displeasure With Party High Command

RESHUFFLE FALLOUT

FIRDOUS TAK

Jammu, Jan 31: The recent reshuffle in the council of ministers in Jammu and Kashmir seems to have ruffled many feathers in the State Congress, with majority of its cadres expressing strong displeasure over the party High Command’s move to ‘cut most of the senior legislators to size.’Sources told More

Omar meets Sonia, Dr Singh, Shinde

Seeks Financial Assistance, Exemption From Recovery Of Cost On Central Forces

GK NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi, Jan 31: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had separate meetings with the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde here Thursday in which issues pertaining to the development and prevailing peace situation in Jammu and Kashmir More

NC’s Nawa-e-Subah in PDD’s defaulters list

Owes Rs 7.80 Lakh Electricity Charges To Power Department

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Jan 31: Nawa-e-Subah, the headquarters of ruling National Conference here, figures in the fresh list of consumers who have defaulted on payment of electricity bills to the Power Development Department (PDD).In the list, which appeared in some local dailies, the PDD has shown that the More

NOW, AMARNATH YATRA FOR 55 DAYS

To Begin On June 28; No Pilgrim Registration Without Health Certificate: Shrine Board

GK NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi, Jan 31: The Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board Thursday announced that the annual pilgrimage would start this year on June 28 and end on August 21. The decision was arrived at by the Board in a three-hour meeting in New Delhi chaired by J&K Governor NN Vohra, who is also the Chairman More

MHA asks JK Govt to review separatists’ security

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, Jan 31: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked the Jammu and Kashmir Government to go for a ‘detailed review’ of the security of separatist leaders in Kashmir. The Government has also been asked to offer security to the separatist leaders who have denied the cover so far.
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Magisterial probe begins

Mian Altaf Visits Bereaved Family

IMRAN KHAN

Thanamandi (Rajouri), Jan 31: The magisterial probe ordered in a mysterious blast, which killed two minors here yesterday, began on Thursday. The Minister for Forests Mian Altaf Ahmad visited Thanamandi and handed over ex-gratia relief to the bereaved family.Official sources said the Additional More

‘Ban of private practice big relief to people’

Srinagar, Jan 31: Calling the ban on private practices of Head of Departments as big relief to the ailing people of Jammu and Kashmir, the People’s Forum, an NGO, on Thursday said the move would improve More

Cabinet clears revised draft of Lokpal Bill

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Jan 31: In a significant development ahead of the coming Budget Session of Parliament, the Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared the new-revised Lokpal Bill despite certain objections raised to More

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