Rajouri: A Crash Course In Development
Apart from the two cities of Jammu and Srinagar, J&K lives in 20 districts which are the basic administrative and developmental units. Comptroller and...
Headcount 2011
As always, a year ahead of the actual headcount comes the provisional statistics of the census. It came last month. Limited to a few...
Democracy Costs, You Know?
Elections, as they say, are the first step towards the democracy. Once elected, they may or may not deliver but the system has to...
Forest Encroachments
Jammu and Kashmir regions have encroached upon 9482 hectors and 4877.62 hectors of land respectively. Since2005-06, the Forest Ministry has retrieved 64.30 hectors and...
Priority Sector Lending: First Six Month Report
Against a target of providing Rs 2820.91 crore credit to 207941 eligible individuals across J&K in 2010-11under the priority sector lending, the banking sector...
Special Police Officials (SPO)
SPOs are one of the many extra-constitutional structures that state’s policymakers devised during 1995’s gubernatorial regime. They are youth who are engaged at the...
Climate Change: 2030
India’s Environment & Forests Ministry released a report that provides an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030s on four key sectors of...
J&K Bank: Uninterrupted Growth Story
The growth at J&K Bank remains to be uninterrupted. Even though Kashmir is passing through a crisis since June, the bank registered a net...
Transformers
Come winter and the power transformers will be in huge demand. Owing to the voltage fluctuations and massive load for lighting and heating, the...
A Chronology of Inaction
The government has made it clear that it wants punishment for the personnel that kill innocents. Various investigations – magisterial and judicial – were...
Changing Practices Of Marriage In Kashmir
Noted sociologist Dr Bashir A Dabla (Sociology Department, University of Kashmir) lead a study to understand the transformations that the traditional practices of marriage...
2009 Snippets
COSTLIEST POLICE STATION
Batamaloo police station is going to be the costliest station ever constructed by the cash-rich JKP. To be set up on five...
PMs visit in Q&A
What was Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s agenda in his Kashmir visit?Dr Singh inaugurated the 18.359 kms of railway track between Islamabad and Qazigund...
