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U-turn: Hurriyat now calls for poll boycott

Friday 24 April '09

The Hurriyat moderates on Thursday bowed to pressure from the militant groups and called for a poll boycott in the Kashmir....
J&K lawyer offers to take up the brief

Thursday 16 April '09

A lawyer from Kashmir who fights cases for most Pakistani and Afghan militants arrested in Kashmir has offered to represent 26/11 terror.
Valley hospitals' ambulances lack basic life support

Saturday 28 February '09

Mir’s father is writhing in pain as he bleeds profusely and there are little chances that he may survive in absence of the emergency medical aid.
SKIMS muzzles criticism with ad blitz

Wednesday 25 February '09

For the past more than a week now, the administration of the valley's lone tertiary care hospital is issuing advertisements worth lakhs of rupees to portray a positive image of the institute and calls for ‘restraint’.
Protests over Sopore deaths, Army orders probe

Monday 23 February '09

While the J-K Police on Sunday registered a case of murder against the Army for the death of two devotees at Bomai village in north Kashmir’s Sopore town.
Two killed in Sopore firing, Omar orders magisterial probe

Sunday 22 February '09

In the first such incident after the Omar Abdullah-led coalition Government came to power in Jammu and Kashmir.
SKIMS head defends hospital after report

Thursday 19 February '09

The Director of SKIMS hospital, Dr Abdul Hamid Zargar has designated Joint Director of the hospital as Vigilance Officer and asked the practicing doctors to abide by law.
Maqbool Bhat’s brother returns to Valley after 20 years, is arrested

Friday 13 February '09

The J-K Police on Thursday arrested Zahoor Ahmad Bhat, brother of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front.
Doctors’ private practices flourishing despite govt ban

Wednesday 11 February '09

In clear violation of the J-K govt ordinance banning private practice of SKIMS doctors, a large number of of them openly run their private clinics.
A new, strange post-poll alliance in Valley

Friday 2 January '09

Jammu and Kashmir has got a new, strange post-poll alliance — that of the candidates who lost in the assembly elections.
An elephant lies in the details

Wednesday 31 December '08

At a time when the Congress and National Conference look all set to form the next coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir...
Engineer left separatist party to contest, wins

Monday 29 December '08

In an election pregnant with hope, this is perhaps the most heartwarming story of all.
PDP setback: Three ministers among losers

Monday 29 December '08

A stalwart’s defeat, fall of former J-K finance minister, a woman’s victory in a militant stronghold and the emergence of some new faces.
After Geelani, Mirwaiz admits ‘we got it wrong’

Friday 26 December '08

A day after Syed Ali Shah Geelani admitted his shock, Mirwaiz too has called for a need to 'introspect and rethink'.
55 pc turnout in fourth phase of polls

Monday 8 December '08

Like the first three phases, the story of brisk voting was repeated in the fourth phase as well on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir.
A time to argue

Wednesday 26 November '08

When 56-year-old Ghulam Nabi came out of the Duderhama polling station in Ganderbal, he was confronted by a group of angry men.
One killed, two hurt in grenade attack on NC candidate’s convoy

Wednesday 26 November '08

National Conference candidate Mohammad Ashraf Ganai had a narrow escape on Tuesday when militants hurled a grenade at his convoy.
Voters decide on Omar today, violence mars run-up to Phase 2 polls

Sunday 23 November '08

The first phase of elections may have seen a peaceful 64 per cent turnout in Jammu and Kashmir but violence was back a day before the second phase.
Independents’ Day

Tuesday 18 November '08

In this election, being held without the spectre of violence, many more independents have taken the political plunge
Bridge collapse at Uri: 4 dead, 23 missing

Monday 17 November '08

Four labourers were killed after a NHPC bridge collapsed on Sunday during load testing at Uri. The toll will rise as the rescue operation is underway and around 23 people, including six pedestrians, are feared buried under the debris.
J&K poll boycott campaign gets a boost, Mirwaiz says will hit streets

Tuesday 11 November '08

The separatist poll boycott call in Jammu and Kashmir got a new lease of life on Monday with Hurriyat moderate leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq...
Wanted: candidates for Janata Party

Tuesday 4 November '08

An advertisement for a job may be common, but in Kashmir, a national political party has sought candidates for the coming Assembly polls through advertisements in local newspapers.
J-K IAS officer not serious about development: ADB

Monday 20 October '08

The Asian Development Bank, the funding agency for the J&K Urban Sector Development Investment Programme.
On the railway map, at last

Saturday 11 October '08

It was Dogra ruler Maharaja Pratap Singh who first explored the possibility of a railway line to Kashmir in 1898.
In Valley, NC and Cong welcome pact, PDP reject deal

Monday 1 September '08

While NC and Cong welcomed the agreement, PDP called it a 'unilateral' decision. The separatists too rejected the deal.
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