**
Thursday, May 9, 2024
spot_imgspot_imgspot_imgspot_img

Governance

The state craft has evolved differently in Jammu and Kashmir over the years. This section offers narratives about the various facets of the governance in between various elected governments and the governors.

Terror Square

Twenty six years after Handwara witnessed the first blood, two youth became the latest casualty, triggering a new chain of protests and killings in...

Issues on Table

Tasavur Mushtaq Blazing sirens at 12 noon on April 4, finally announced the arrival of Mehbooba Mufti to the seat of power, the civil secretariat....

Newsy Nine

Takeover by a new PDP-BJP government was extra-ordinary phenomenon. After three months of tense wait and intense interactions between the allies, the new government...

Those Two Months…

As the demise of PDP patron created governance void in J&K, intriguing scenes unfolded in state officialdom currently camped in Jammu’s civil secretariat. The...

Dial for Help

  It was because of a NGO’s sting that a Sopore based faith-healer’s dirty world was uncovered. Shakir Mir takes a look at the NGO’s...

“It is good to see people ask questions like how and where we are...

Director School Education Dr Shah Faesal, an IAS topper who wants to be remembered as an Iqbaliyat scholar, tells Saima Bhat that it is...

‘Royal’ Sale

A Mughal era garden in Dal Lake’s lap is latest causality of land mafia. Sold by the Maharaja to a wealthy local, the garden...

Kashmir’s Nagpur?

Unlike journalism, RTI has empowered people to the extent they wish to be. A Srinagar politician close to Ghulam Nabi Azad keen to know...

Campus Shift

It has been a long time since Reyaz Punjabi demolished the office of Kashmir University Students Union thus closing the chapter of active student...

VohRaj

With Governor N N Vohra literally tightening strings around otherwise at-ease government officials, the craving for a formal government is visible on their faces....

Jagmohan Days

NDA government’s Padma Vibhushan to Jagmohan Malhotra pushed Kashmir back to his stint in the 1990s’, reliving the days and nights of horror and terror....

Kashmir’s Fairer Lords

Kashmir was ruled by many women in ancient and medieval times. Some of them proved more capable than their male predecessors and successors. Sara...

Vohra, Again

Mufti Sayeed’s demise instantly stripped his cabinet colleagues of their portfolios and powers  as Governor takes over. With ministerial and personal staff struggle to...

Last Tour

Even at the prime age of 79, late CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, worked 12 hours, met 23 delegations and toured 16 spots during his...

Ration Ruckus

With government mulling to implement the Food Security Act by early next year, parts of state have risen up in protest, even consuming a...