On track!
The Kashmir rail project has been plagued by bad planning, lack of proper survey besides cost and time overrun. Will the project meet its...
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....
Dehi Adalat Bill
With around half a million cases pending across Kashmir, Dehi Adalat Bill 2013 is going to ease the burden for sure. But can these...
Recycling Autonomy?
In anticipation of the all party delegation visit to Kashmir, various political parties started talking about pushing clocks back in the Delhi-Srinagar relationship. Nothing...
Hyped Initiatives?
Between an over-hyped political outreach and a curtain raiser for investment in Jammu and Kashmir, there was a ‘dirty picture’ and a radical revelation...
Benefit of doubt
Most of the accused including the pimp and her alleged clients were exonerated by a designated CBI court in Chandigarh to which the sensational...
A stumbling block
Re-organization of J&K into 22 districts left the block levels unchanged. With Community Development blocks getting more importance in wake of thrust on specific...
RTI: Towards Opaqueness
The recent notification by the J&K government to change the RTI Act 2010 has left civil society and political leaders aghast. Many claim that...
Stuck In Time
Lack of regular electricity, proper roads, educational institutes and health centres is not a criterion for recognition as a backward area by the state...
Certified Innocence
A firing incident almost coinciding with the Zubin Mehta show, triggered a chain of reactions in entire South Kashmir. By the time cabinet responded,...
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...
Lalla Rookh Eyes
Exactly 200 years after Irish blind poet Thomas Moore sung in praise of Kashmir, its beauty, its women and their eyes in his epic-poem,...
Plundering Pahalgam
Despite high court banning fresh construction in Pahalgam influential people manage to build huge structures in eco-sensitive areas. Shams Irfan reports the daylight plunder...
A Crisis In The Making
Delhi’s has announced a new policy on distribution of LPG cylinders which was implemented by the J&K government without protest. With approaching winters in...
Consumed Careers
Successive governments have mindlessly “hired” people on an ad-hoc, provisional and temporary basis. They keep the government’s service delivery show going on at almost...