In Anticipation
Indications are clear that the Jammu and Kashmir will not have the remote rule for a long time as the process for the state...
Managing Floods
After the September 2014 floods that devastated Kashmir, especially the economic hub, the Srinagar, the follow up has been going on quite sluggishly. While...
Fabrication of Evidence
Prof. SM Afzal QadriThe recent developments in the Shopian murder and rape case have once again exposed the affairs and the wrong working of...
Consumer Interest
Eid is round the corner and within days the market will have an impressive appetite for almost everything – the apparels, shoe-wear, food and...
CEMENTING THE DIVIDE
Not withstanding the occasional upsurge in violence, the situation has gradually been improving across J&K for a decade. Though it is yet to fetch...
Gagged democracy
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s estranged uncle Ghulam Muhammad Shah’s rule was one of the shortest in the state. But enough for Shah to gain the sobriquet of Gul Curfew because of the long spate of curfews that marred his short tenure.
Devouring children
Ibrahim Wani
He considered suicide as the only option available to him. For the last time he fed his ailing grandfather, and then hanged himself. In another case, a boy talked to his mother for the last time. And then he just wrote a suicide note before hanging himself.
He considered suicide as the only option available to him. For the last time he fed his ailing grandfather, and then hanged himself. In another case, a boy talked to his mother for the last time. And then he just wrote a suicide note before hanging himself.
Natural Fury
With 19 incidents of cloudbursts followed by flash floods claiming 5 lives reported in Kashmir in last 20 days, Mother Nature is back in...
A VISIBLE CRISIS
It is summer and J&K has better discharge in its rivers. Almost all the power projects are operating with full capacity. During the month...
Re-Engaging Punjab
Chief Secretaries of Punjab and J&K had a detailed sitting last week. The two states are running a festering dispute over water and Punjab...
Letter from the editor
During the last three months a widely popular agitation has seen almost all of Kashmir either on the streets protesting and demanding Azadi or...
Break the ice
Hamidullah Dar
Intentionally or otherwise, Kashmiris are being pushed into a situation where people from Jammu region, or more accurately minority community, are all set to rule them for a long time. Not to speak of Kashmir Administrative Service which has become an elusive dream for most of the deserving candidates from Kashmir valley, the tentacles of patronage of a particular community have spread to other services as well.
In the recently declared short listing of Junior Health Inspectors specific for Kashmir division, only one among the 80 is a Kashmiri while as 79 are from Jammu division. This is the crass injustice to a division which already suffers for its meagre share in bureaucracy and other departments. Had this been done with Jammu division, whole of the Jammu region spearheaded by their politicians, would have cried hoarse blurting unfounded allegations on the hapless Kashmiris.
Intentionally or otherwise, Kashmiris are being pushed into a situation where people from Jammu region, or more accurately minority community, are all set to rule them for a long time. Not to speak of Kashmir Administrative Service which has become an elusive dream for most of the deserving candidates from Kashmir valley, the tentacles of patronage of a particular community have spread to other services as well.
In the recently declared short listing of Junior Health Inspectors specific for Kashmir division, only one among the 80 is a Kashmiri while as 79 are from Jammu division. This is the crass injustice to a division which already suffers for its meagre share in bureaucracy and other departments. Had this been done with Jammu division, whole of the Jammu region spearheaded by their politicians, would have cried hoarse blurting unfounded allegations on the hapless Kashmiris.
Respect linguistic diversity
Language is the representative of culture. The manifestation, realization and transmission of culture, Humans have evolved for hundreds of years, primarily takes through the...
Propaganda to facts
Non-Kashmiri militants arrested in the past have often told their interrogators that they were driven to Kashmir by the propaganda in their countries. The...
Don’t Preach
Assuming that Ms Mufti is naive to rub people of her state the wrong way every time she makes a public appearance is wrong....
