England closed at 289-7 on the first day of its second Ashes Test with Australia after losing three wickets within the first six overs of play at Lord’s in London, where Queen Elizabeth II was among the spectators. Ian Bell led the home team’s recovery with a second century of the cricket series before falling to Steven Smith for 109, following a 144-run stand with Jonny Bairstow. Bairstow got 67 until he w ...

Home Minister orders probe; Mobile services snapped GOWHAR MANZOOR Srinagar, July 18: (GNS) Four persons were killed and 42 injured when Border Security Force (BSF) personnel fired at protesters in Ramban district of Jammu region today. The protests sparked in the area after BSF personnel allegedly desecrated the Holy Qur’an and beat up the local religious preacher yesterday. Sources told GNS that hundreds ...

[caption id="attachment_2056" align="alignright" width="460"] KashmirI Lake[/caption]        By Sajjad Shaukat 19th of July is celebrated every year on both sides of the Line of Control and all over the world by the people of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), as on this very day in 1947, majority of people of the Indian-held Kashmir passed a peaceful resolution, and decided Kashmir’s accession to Pakistan. The h ...

IT industry has evolved in to a very competitive world and complies with “Survival Of Fittest” theory. Here, the employees always have to keep up their ante with new skills. And mostly the industry keeps tabs on the ways to reduce costs, boost productivity and tap the power of complex datasets to gain market insight, and put it in nut shell, Cloud computing offers all this and more. As a result, IT professi ...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="168"] Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh KHALISTAN[/caption]  Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh The Indian government has used many tactics to undermine the Sikh Struggle for freedom.  It has infiltrated organizations such as the World Sikh Organization.  It even infiltrated and continues to control Babbar Khalsa, the organization that India accused of carrying out the Air India bombing.  ...

No. Nothing has changed for them. Nothing will change. Not until they change themselves. There have been just too many bloody revolutions in our world. There have also been just too many elections in many countries of the world. Did anything change for the people anywhere in the world?  No.  Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. Nothing will change for the people who will not be prepared to joins hands ...

‘It’s moral sin to remain mute spectators’ Srinagar, July 16: (GNS) Reacting against the unfortunate mysterious deaths of two Kashmiri youth in Mumbai and Rajasthan Chairman Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani has appealed people to observe peaceful protest demonstrations after Friday prayers on July 19. “It is a serious matter and until the facts are traced, it is obligatory for us to raise voice aga ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan has been playing a constructive role in resolving internal feuds of Afghanistan since 1980s and has avoided the game of pitching one ethnic community against the other to serve its selfish interests. All the seven Mujahideen groups involved in Afghanistan Jihad against the Soviet forces had placed their trust in Islamabad. Nawaz Sharif during his first stint from 1990 to 1993 had a ...