Inflation hits aam admi,food prices skyrocket

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Feb 13: With government failing to tame the inflation, food prices are touching new highs everyday.  The consumers are feeling the pinch of the inflation, while people belonging to the middle income group say that it is very difficult for them to manage the family expenses with More
Petrol,diesel prices may go up this week

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Feb 13: Petrol price may be hiked by about Re 1 a litre and diesel by 50 paise a litre by this weekend as oil firms begin to exercise the recently accorded freedom to adjust rates in step with cost. State-owned oil firms are losing Rs 1.32 a litre on petrol as international oil rates More
JAKEDA allots 6 micro hydel projects under IPP mode

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 13: Jammu and Kashmir Energy Development Agency (JAKEDA) has allotted six micro hydel power projects with a cumulative capacity of 9.95 MW under Independent Power Producers (IPP) mode.  The six projects have been taken up under the first phase among the 68 identified projects across More
Sensex gains 47 points

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Mumbai, Feb 13: After rising 162 points in early trade, the BSE benchmark Sensex on Wednesday surrendered most of the gains on profit selling in Bajaj Auto, SBI, Sterlite and Tata Steel shares but still managed to close 47 points up at one-week high of 19,608.08. The Bombay Stock Exchange 30 More
Gold,silver recover

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Feb 13: Both the precious metals, gold and silver, recovered here on Wednesday on emergence of buying at existing lower levels for the ongoing marriage season. Gold snapped its two-day losing trend, recovered by Rs 10 to Rs 30,800 per 10 grams. It had lost Rs 260 in last two trading More
Salaried class wants increase in IT exemption limit

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Bangalore, Feb 13 : A vast majority of salaried class employees in a host of trade and industry sectors want Finance Minister P Chidambaram to raise the income tax exemption limit to at least Rs three lakh and increase deductions like medical and educational allowances in the Budget, an Assocham survey More
  • Kashmir

Lawyer who secured death sentence for Afzal disapproves secret hanging

It is a human rights violation, family ought to have been first informed: Prosecutor Gopal Subramanium

SPOTLIGHT

New Delhi, Feb 13: The very lawyer instrumental in securing death sentence for Afzal Guru disapproves of the secretive manner in which he has been executed without being given an opportunity to meet his More


  • Srinagar City

Police start helplines in 'caged' city

‘We want to reach out to people’

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, Feb 13: Amid continuous curfew to quell protests against hanging of Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru, police have come up with helplines in the city for “convenience” of people. & More



  • Jammu

Traffic disrupted on highway

M M PARVAIZ

Ramban, Feb 13: Traffic remained disrupted on Jammu-Srinagar highway for more than six hours following landslides triggered at Seri near Ramban township on Wednesday morning.As per official reports landslides More


  • South Asia

Salah-u-Din for unified political leadership

Flays Pak Govt’s silence over hanging

Afzal Hanging Murder Of Justice And Law: UJC

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Feb 13: Urging pro-freedom leadership to forge unity, the UJC leadership on Wednesday said a unified political leadership in Kashmir with a strong resistance movement at its back was the only More


  • World

Obama announces troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

LALIT K JHA\PTI

Washington, Feb 13: US President Barack Obama today announced to bring 34,000 American troops back home from war-torn Afghanistan in the next one year as he warned North Korea and Iran to meet the international More


  • PaK

Afzal’s hanging can’t suppress Kashmir movement: PaK PM

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Feb 13: Prime Minister of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK)   Chaudhry Abdul Majeed on Wednesday said that persecution of Kashmiris would not deter them from carrying forward More


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