Government Initiatives July 18 – 24, 2021
Premature Retirement
After amending Article 226 (2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations, authorities have ordered a fresh review of its employees'...
Government Initiatives July 11-17, 2021
Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Bilal Ahmad Khan, a post-graduate from Sheikhpora (Anantnag) started a fish farm in his native village in 2007 with assistance from the Fisheries...
Government Initiatives July 4-10, 2021
The Employment Generation
Amid growing protests by graduates over the class fourth job posts being reserved for 10+2 candidates only, Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta...
Darbar Move: An Obituary
Jammu and not Srinagar should mourn the demise of the darbar move, writes Haseeb A Drabu, asserting that the undoing of half capital status...
Kashmir: Those 689 Days
Between the candle march on the night of August 4, 2019, and the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 24, 2021, Kashmir...
Government Initiatives June 20 – June 26, 2021
Added Accountability
Jammu and Kashmir Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) has asked the contractor of the Parimpora-Soibugh road to complete the project within stipulated time or...
The Security Tool
Rakesh Pandita’s killing has prompted police to bar the movement of the politicians and the protected persons without security clearance. Political parties see the...
Government Initiatives
Combating Covid19
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) 500-bedded Covid Hospital at Khonmoh, Srinagar. It was completed in 17...
An Unusual Exit
BVR Subrahmanyam was the chosen officer to spearhead the process of recreating ‘Naya Kashmir’ after the reading down of Article 370 and bifurcation of...
Government Initiatives June 6-12, 2021
Electrifying Kashmir
Power Development Corporation Limited (KPDCL) has said that 21 out of 70 receiving stations (RS) were completed to date while 10 more are...
Government Initiatives
Countering Covid19
Jammu and Kashmir government said 62 per cent of people in the age group of 45 years have been vaccinated in comparison to...
Covid Priority
It is vital to have Covid19 appropriate behaviour. But it is more important to retain Covid19 as the key priority in the governance policymaking....
Government Initiatives May 23-29, 2021
Vaccinating All
Jammu and Kashmir government, according to PK Pole has placed an order of 1.2 crore Covid-19 vaccination doses but the difficulty has arisen...
Probing The Toll
With Kashmir having massive morbidity and Jammu leading in the mortality, a puzzled government is trying its best to locate the reasons responsible, reports...
Government Initiatives
JAMMU
On the express directions of the Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha, the labour class has started getting some help as the lockdown prevents any work....