Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
The name on the wall
Shazia Yousuf
Our ancestral house sat on the corner of a lane. I would spend most of my time in a first floor room facing...
A model village of negligence
Two kilometres from Islamabad Town, Muniwar village has no more facilities than a remote hamlet.
Hamidullah Dar
If a person is air-dropped in the centre of...
Dubai Dreams Gone Sour
Flight to Dubai may have been a long cherished dream; the excitement in trader community is about attracting high end tourists. Can the Indian...
First session doesn’t inspire confidence
Naeem Akhtar
Much has been said about the present State Assembly on many counts. Chief reason for its estimation so high is the large...
Recap of The Week
PETITIONED: State president of Samajwadi Party, Sheikh Abdul Rehman filed (March 13) a Public Interest Litigations (PILs) before the high court challenging 29th Constitutional...
Peace Process After J&K Elections
DR GULL MUHAMMAD WANI
Quench my Thirst: Gimme Treish
Treish, one word in Kashmiri for drinking water, can become a universal call to quench one’s thirst.That is at least what the officials at...
HIGH & MIGHTY- J&K’S TOP 10
Irrespective of the political make up of societies and nations, power is always centred among a few people, a few high and mighty. They...
Ok we pay: From where?
The implementation of 6th pay commission recommendations may have brought relief to the state employees, but the financial implications and emerging disparities in pay...
Crowd, not a nation
Hamidullah Dar
Nations face momentary halts not menacing defeats but the fate of crowds is otherwise. If people of a particular geographical unit with a common language behave like
Nations face momentary halts not menacing defeats but the fate of crowds is otherwise. If people of a particular geographical unit with a common language behave like
No CMP?
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday announced on the floor of the house that that his ruling coalition had no common minimum programme (CMP), a statement that has left political analysts wondering. “Coalition Government did not need a common minimum programme as the two coalition parties had full faith in each other,” Omar said. He added that he did not feel it necessary to have a common minimum programme.One wonders how Omar’s voters should make him accountable if they do not know what he intends to do. Analysts call it a compromise. “This is a compromise, a virtual corporate merger, a takeover of smaller company for monitory gains,” said Nayeem Akhter, a former bureaucrat close to Peoples Democratic Party. “They have been running the government like a municipality but now they have even lost the semblance of a government.”
Right to Information! How much?
J&K Government has issued the draft of a new Right to Information Act proposed to replace the state’s existing RTI Act. Is the proposed...
Recap of The Week
SEIZED: Doordarshan authorities seized the tapes of a documentary on Kashmir Pandits alleged to have provocative content. It was directed by a Jammu based...
I help you land a job
Madina left a plum job to start a career consultancy to assist applicants from valley to get jobs in the private sector. Today her...
Wooing investment
New Delhi has extended the excise exemption to industry operating in J&K for another 10 years. But the contents of the package have brought...
