Govern Now
The administration appears as clueless and helpless about the unfolding catastrophe as the ordinary people, writes Riyaz Wani
With over three lakh Covid-19 cases a day,...
A Quiet Surrender
The National Conference led government was keen to protect district cadre jobs for home districts alone. But when the moment arrived it chose to...
Road hazard
Almost all the major roads in Srinagar city are dug up for constructing drains. Is it an unavoidable inconvenience for the greater good or...
Subverting the system
New Delhi’s official auditor has detected J&K government compromising the expenditure processes in such a way that it skips spending the budgeted funds for...
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...
Virtual Jammu Kashmir
To be implemented within five years, the Digital Vision has the ambitious plan of laying a dedicated optical fibre network across Jammu and Kashmir...
Dreaming A Home
Caught in the heaps of files and procedures, the officials in the rural development department are oblivious of the inhuman conditions in which the...
Government Initiatives February 21-27, 2021
Easing Industrialisation
The Lt Governor Manoj Sinha led Administrative Council has approved a series of measures for simplifying the business establishment process. As per the...
Gone With The Herd!
Angry young man Sajjad Gani Lone built his political career on controversies. Finally he reached the cabinet as a BJP ally but is unhappy...
Costly handling
The government needs to be sensitive in its handling of the only listed company of the state, and not treat it in the same...
MS Moneybag
Every time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lands in Kashmir, he makes promises to change the socio-economic discourse by pumping resource to manage the deficit....
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...
The Road Scare
Unless the road-keepers and the traffic managers will not sit with the stakeholders and identify the issues to be tackled, driving in the hills...
Perpetuating Confusion
Appointed at the peak of 2010 unrest by the Home Ministry, three interlocutors were mandated to “to identify the political contours of a solution...
THE MODEL VILLAGE FARCE
The much- vaunted Model Village project was touted to transform villages in Kashmir into modern, self-sufficient entities. Kashmir Life visited five ‘model’ villages described...