READY & ABLE
The Minister for Higher Education, Abdul Gani Malik, has recently stated that district employment and counseling centers in Jammu and Kashmir have registered roughly...
Creating linkages
Higher education has witnessed vigorous growth in Jammu and Kashmir in the last two decades. Many institutions of higher learning have been set up...
Painful silence
The obstinacy of the union government in not allowing the prosecution of armed forces personnel by the civilian courts of Jammu and Kashmir involved...
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...
Make Time
In the last six years, lot of changes were effected in the way J&K legislates, debates the public issues, agrees and disagrees on the...
Of Kettles and Pots
An education minister can cheat, help his son cheat and by rational deduction actually cheats his own blood as well. Normally, it should shock...
Elusive Jobs
Unlike many states, especially the developed ones, it is the government in J&K that is the biggest spender. By an average, not less than...
Dog days
People spilled a lot of anger on the face book last week after a child was mauled by stray dogs in the city. He...
Act now
When a newspaper reported that the government was buried under the snowfall, it was correct. Because four feet snow accumulation over the Pir Panchal...
Unnatural Excuses
The location of Kashmir is often discussed from a geo-strategic perspective. The discourses about the region and its people are mostly overshadowed by its...
Climatic Change
It may still take some time to see icicles in Srinagar, but thank God, we finally have the season’s first snowfall in the plains...
Tackle darkness
severe chill, the residents of Sirhama a small hamlet in Bijbehara have seen electricity in their homes for not more than 10 hours in...
Suffering With Referrals
The district hospitals and sub centers, in every district of Kashmir, suffer from what many would call “refer disease”. From the headache to an abdominal pain everything gets referred to hospitals of Srinagar.
Student Politics
recent events and the temperament of activity in the Universities in Kashmir are any indication something ‘apolitically’ political is brewing. Student politics and indeed...
Faith and Responsibility
week when the state government decided advancing the winter vacation from December 1, it surprised many because the schools would usually run till the...
