Kashmir Life

Committee constituted to examine formation of policy on Transgenders

KL Report SRINAGAR With the directions of the Supreme Court the government on Monday constituted a committee to monitor and examine the formation of State policy...

Governor hosts “At Home” for President

KL Report JAMMU Mr. N.N Vohra, Governor, hosted an “At Home” at the Raj Bhavan, Monday, for Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, President of India. According to the offcial...

Drabu castigates Govt over proposed shifting of firing range to Sangarwani

KL Report SRINAGAR Former J&K Bank chairman  and candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Rajpora constituency Dr Haseeb Drabu has expressed dismay over the State...

4449 posts of doctors, paramedics vacant

KL Report SRINAGAR There are 1144 posts of doctors in the state lying vacant while as around 3305 posts of paramedics yet to be filled. According to...

Regular Highway Status updates on new android software: IGP Traffic

KL Report SRINAGAR The Inspector General of Police Traffic, J&K, through a press release has informed the public in general and motorists in particular that Traffic...

Elections cannot be held in December; says Prof Soz

KL Report SRINAGAR Asking the Election Commission of India (ECI) to remain steadfast with its democratic principles, Prof Saif-u-din Soz, president Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) on...

Flag Makers 

The flag-makers of the yore who translated emotions on cloth, irrespective of politics or ideology behind them, try to survive on the margins of...

Er Rashid

It was one more mention of controversial village defence communities (VDCs) in same space (JK Assembly) but in different time (2014). But one man...

News Notes

Supreme State Supreme Court might be the highest point of justice delivery in India but when it comes to Kashmir, it is the State that...

“Why should I distance myself from BJP?”

His name surfaced scandalously in April this year as one of two BJP emissaries mandated to engage Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani. But far...

Briefing

JAMMU Finally, she is back to business. Rajni Sehgal, the jailer at Kotbalwal who remained suspended for 15 months after her Pakistani prisoner Sunaullah Ranjay...

News Makers

Killed Two villagers, identified as Muhammad Akram and his 13-year-old son Aslam were killed and seven people including Akram’s wife, his three children and a...

Social Control 

We all take pride in calling ourselves Kashmiris. This is rightly so, for the place has a cultural history of more than two thousand...

One Last Time

With elections round the corner, the assembly had a brief six-day autumn session. But it was unimpressive and unruly by all means, excepting that...

Conflicting Connections 

Arshid Malik The conflict in Kashmir while providing an excuse for people to work lazily - and I am speaking particularly in context of people...