You are right, Mr CM
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah admitted this week that institutions of state meant to protect and serve people have lost credibility in Kashmir.
The old man and the bulbul
Octogenarian Muhammad Akram writes poetry inspired by a pair of birds, who he says have been visiting him for the last 50 years. Akram...
Newsmakers
BANNED: After garlic and ginger, authorities have banned ‘export’ of coconuts and cardamom through the twin trading windows on LoC. The directions were implemented...
Reviving Kashmiri Language
by Abid Ahmad
Recently Kashmir observed the death anniversary of Akhtar Mohiuddin, the legendary writer of Kashmiri language and literature, who elevated Kashmiri to a...
Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din: Courage till last
by Majid Maqbool
In a seminal essay written as early as 1950, Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din urged writers to side with majority of people, not power, if...
Vege-trouble
Vegetable belts of Budgam produce 1,20,000 metric tonnes of vegetables out of which 54,000 metric tonnes are exported. But a host of reasons are...
Restore hope to the future
Tarique A Bhat
The debate on crime, social evils and moral values in our society has been in public discourse
The debate on crime, social evils and moral values in our society has been in public discourse
Sex Slavery
Abducted, she spent more than a year as a sex slave entertaining drug addicts, paedophiles and other criminals who brutalized her childhood. She was...
A river chronicled
Jhelum has remained central to the identity of Kashmir, even worshipped at times. While chroniclers and hagiographers produced accounts of dynasties and warlords, the...
Beautifying Jhelum
R S GulFor a little over three km stretch in the heart of Srinagar, the meandering Jhelum looks a bit pampered, especially when compared...
Banyaari: A cut off world
Profiling a village that finds connectivity with the rest of the world only through a boat, Haroon Mirani reports the apathy of government towards...
Revenue generation: Trade suggests how
As Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather prepares to draft the budget 2009, he has been interacting with trade and industry chieftains for inputs. Kashmir...
What I want in budget
Sanjay Puri
A joint study by CII with Luthra & Luthra Charted Accountants concluded that Entry Tax impacts the competitiveness of the industry without any corresponding significant benefit to the states’ revenue. It found the tax restricts free flow of trade, mars potential employment generation, increases administrative costs for the industry, and leads to double taxation thus making products expensive for end user.
Perhaps that is why Tamil Nadu and Karnataka had done away with it. In northern region, UP levies entry tax between 1 to 5 percent, Punjab between 2 to 4 percent, Haryana between 2 to 12 percent and J&K levies tax between 4 to 12 percent.
J&K imposes double tax on manufacturing sector - toll tax first on inbound goods and again on outbound goods. One way toll tax will enable the manufacturers to expand their businesses with the neighboring states, thus increasing the quantum of inward goods and leading to higher collection of toll tax. We want this to be reviewed.
Much Ado About Nothing
by Arshad Malik
Yesterday evening, I went shopping only to find myself burdened with the goods I had purchased as the shopkeepers would not give...
Farooq Abdullah
After a week of hullabaloo and ‘boycott’ of the first oath taking ceremony for IPL, former chief minister Farooq Abdullah
