Turnout makes everyone happy
From over 1.65 million voters, when around 300 thousand came out and voted on Thursday, the polling pattern made both sides– the government and...
Omar’s Hari Niwas turndown
A house of his own was apparently the only factor for the chief minister to decide against making the Rs 500 cr spooky Hari...
Procurement bias hits Valley units
With the PDD procurement wing stationed permanently in Jammu, Valley based electric equipment units have faced hurdles. Now before the wing could be shifted...
Face of resistance
From an ordinary woman striving to trace her son picked up by troops, Parveena Ahanger turned into champion of civil rights for all such...
Newsmakers
SUSPENDED: The Election Commission has placed under suspension the services of Shahnawaz Bukhari, the returning officer of Hazrtabal by- election. The officer had upheld...
Being Devil’s Advocate
Naeem AkhtarThe decision of Sajjad Lone to revert his party to electoral politics has obviously generated some debate. Some cynics read it as the...
Muzamil Jaleel
Prominent Kashmiri journalist, Muzamil Jaleel, was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award
Are We Educated Enough!
by Arshad Malik
Erudition in terms of education is the primary construct for a growth-oriented and progressive society and humans turn out to be...
Aid its prevention
Much has been written on AIDS as a disease; its life threatening nature, its transmission and its spread.
India’s choices
Whole of Sinai Peninsula was occupied by Israel and all of Soviet made armor and hardware rendered useless. Egypt retaliated in 1971 but failed...
From the ‘Zero Bridge’
A Kashmiri-American director shot his film ‘Zero Bridge’ in Kashmir that tells the story of common people in Kashmir. Nafeesa Syeed interacts with the...
J&K has Rs 30,000 Cr with Banks
Banks operating across J&K have advanced Rs 2,537 Cr (Rs 1200 cr in Kashmir, Rs 1277 cr in Jammu and Rs 60 cr in...
Recession blues: unrest ahead
Global Recession has not spared Kashmir in spite of its isolation, but experts say the real impact is still in offing. Some two to...
Floating in turbulence
Mushtaq A Punjabi
The world is under heat of recession that has affected almost all the big economies; slightly or considerably. Our valley is...
Sucking the disease out
An age-old method of cure by sucking impure blood, leech therapy has now entered medical textbooks. Hospitals in Kashmir too use this method for...
