Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
JAMMU
Apparently, the right wing BJP that got a landslide mandate from Jammu in 2008 elections is reduced to four seats from 11. Unlike the...
Newsmakers
INITIATED: The government framed a three member committee to inquire into the “utilisation” of funds worth crores provided to five NGOs based in Kashmir...
Devastating DRIFTS
Kashmir is prone to avalanches in winters and this year the army bases have been at the receiving end. Recently, avalanches struck two defense...
Augmenting Counter terrorism Capability
India has struggled to create an organizational structure for effective counterterrorism capability. So far the effort has meant a number of parallel set ups...
Politics of Profit
The much ‘abused’ practice of appointing politicians to Boards, PSUs and Commissions, is being challenged in the State Accountability Commission giving the Omar-led government...
Another Cop In Jail
After the disgraced SP Sewak Singh was convicted for murder of a subordinate last month, the court awarded life sentence to another officer, this...
The invisible Hand
Zamir AhmadThe new world order seems to be one of scams. Even in a tiny speck of a place on the globe called J&K,...
Constitutionally Right?
Governors as federal agents in states in India are constitutionally empowered to monitor the overall functioning of the state governments. It is their constitutional...
Carrying it around
Arshid MalikFor a long time now I have been planning to hit the healthy streak. I have planned and plotted my timings and routes...
Different dreams
Woman in her locality mostly stay indoors or work in the fields but her love for cricket took her to a very different field....
STABILITY OF CORRUPTION
Last week the government forced 13 corrupt officials into premature retirement. But a look at the recent history of pervasive and systemic corruption at...
Syed Ali Geelani
Known for going against the tide, the inflexible SyedAli Geelani had a prolonged meeting with Father P Samuel, the head ofChurch of North India,...
Newsmakers
DECIDED: A committee on NGOs constituted by UN, chaired by Maria Tzotzorkova of Bulgaria, has declined to accord special consultative status to Kashmir American...
DELHI
Home Minister P Chidambaram had a photo session with 160 boys and girls from J&K, last week. In eight groups of twenty each, they...
Yet Another MURDER
Things are stabilizing in Kashmir but not in the rest of India where incidents of harassment of Kashmiris are continuously taking place. Last week...
