Government Initiatives January 24-30, 2021
Parliamentarians In Kashmir
Finally, the members of the parliament of India were permitted to have 3-day Kashmir visit to review the status of the highways...
Democracy’s Kings
Everybody in J&K politics aspires to be the Chief Minister. It is not only because it is the ultimate what the politics can offer...
Wanting Change
It was because of his efforts that Tosmaidan came into the limelight before the state could have given a nod for the next hundred...
A Model Wasted
Deep down south, the government invested heavily in creating a model health centre. As it is waiting for inauguration, part of the precious equipment...
Changed Concerns
The battle against the virus triggered pandemic has pushed everything else to the back-burner in the private and public sector reports Tasavur Mushtaq
Said to be...
Scary Skiing?
As the new policy makers in tourism sector are planning importing snow manufacturing cannons to produce artificial snow for the ski tracks, R S...
Possible Ambitions
After the landslide victory fetches it a firm control in Delhi, the focus on Jammu and Kashmir may revolve around the BJP’s possibility of...
Bad Times?
In the last 40 years, the Kashmir government changed three sets of clocks on Srinagar’s landmark Ghanta Ghar, but none of them ever exhibited...
First Hostage Taking
During the amorphous years of militancy that coincided with Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s ascend to first Muslim Home Minister of India, JKLF kidnapped his daughter,...
A Clean Sweep
Jammu’s crime syndicates and gangs apparently patronized by nouveau rich have had many casualties in the past. But this time, investigators were caught sleeping...
In The Name Of Dogs
Fed with high protein leftovers, the stray dogs breed faster than their cousins outside Kashmir. Society’s efforts to get the population reduced to manageable...
Shot In Shopian
A brief gun-battle triggered a chain of events that consumed seven lives including two young men who joined militancy in different situations, as two...
Jailer, Class Apart
Rajni Sehgal, J&K’s most senior female jailor who once jumped to newspaper front pages for training Bangladeshi prisoners in Kashmir embroidery in Kot Bhalwal,...
A New Stone Age
As sections of youth try to standardize stone pelting as the new mode of communication, law enforcing agencies slide in the old era to...
Breaking A Silence
Barely four days ahead of the platinum jubilee of the communication lockdown, when the phones returned to life, not every call was a happy...