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Monday, May 6, 2024
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Editorial

It is the newspaper’s opinion on a particular issue.

Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche

Tulku Tsenyi Khentrul Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche (born May 14, 2001) was enthroned as the reincarnation of Geshe Lobsang Gyatso,

Politics and Power

To be in government and to be in power may be seen as being synonymous but the fact is that the two are vastly different; not just literally but also substantively.

Fiscal Reform Agenda- Tasks Ahead

The architects of the Indian Constitution after taking cognizance of the functional realities took a departure from dual federalism to the ‘cooperative federalism’.

Young leaders, old cadres

A generational shift in the politics of Kashmir is near completion now. Will the new generation bring about the minimisation of the ethnic, class, regional, and ideological distinctions that have

We need a satellite TV channel

Tarique A Bhat 
 
Who can really tell the nation and the world about Jammu & Kashmir today? Analysts? The ‘talking heads’ we see on the news channels? Or does the useful information really lie with ordinary people, those in Jammu & Kashmir who are trying to live their lives in the middle of it all? Public discourse is a must and focus should be on the personal and intimate side of life in Kashmir.

A care for career

Arshad Malik

The choice of a career, in fact the right career, is a matter of great concern for all of us – one that makes us what we are going to be for the rest of our lives. Almost everything that concerns us and our dear ones, is influenced by this choice we get to make once in our entire lifespan.

Know your power

Our ruling class, irrespective of where they stand in the political spectrum, is that they don’t know their own powers; both as peoples representatives as well as that of the institutions that they sit in, i.e. the assembly.

Ensure justice

There have been six murders of civilians since Omar Abdullah took over as chief minister. He is correct in saying that nobody is happy over the killings, neither the army nor the government. Similar concern was publicly exhibited by his predecessors since 1996 when a prolonged gubernatorial regime was replaced by a civilian government. Irrespective of what it yielded, registering criminal cases by the police and initiating magisterial probes became a routine.

Peace Process After J&K Elections

DR GULL MUHAMMAD WANI
 
It was generally said about British elections that these are the greatest gamble on earth. The elections in Jammu and Kashmir State are in no way without the element of gamble.
A 1955 photograph showing the students being taught in an open school.

Keep It Up

For a long time, education in Kashmir remained the exclusive domain of a section of the people. This helped them to become the tools...

TURNS, TWISTS AND TURBULENCE

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us” Juries and...

What will be the self of Self-Rule?

Parvaiz BukhariThe Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is mobilizing public opinion in Jammu and Kashmir around its theory of Self-Rule and is seeking wider participation...

Quite Dialogue

New Delhi has ordered a ban on prepaid mobile telephony in Jammu and Kashmir citing “serious security concerns”. This comes just after the announcements...

Shhhhhh! Quiet talks are about to start

Arshid MalikIn 1865 German chemist Friedrich August Kekul? suggested that the structure of Benzene contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single...

Stalking Death

For the last many weeks now, the doctors at Jammu and Kashmir are on strike and if the Friday press conference of a senior...