CHIEF MINISTER III
When he became the state’s youngest ever chief minister in the wake of 2008 unrest, little did Omar Abdullah know the complexity of the...
Where Have All The Jobs Gone?
Unionists have attributed militancy and unrest to the massive unemployment in J&K. Creating more jobs continues to be the thrust area in the government...
Cleaning Up Registration
After a series of reforms, the stamp duty and the registration process have paved way for better returns to the exchequer. Now the reformed...
Burden Of Anti-Timber Smuggling
From carrying the burden of smuggled timber, the seized mules, become a burden to the exchequer in the forest department’s efforts to prevent their...
Equitable Discrimination
The Government of India constituted two special task forces in 2010 to address the developmental needs of Jammu and Ladakh regions while focussing on...
Kashmir Under Dogs
In the past decade there has been an alarming increase in the rabies carrying stray dog population in Kashmir. Correspondingly, more than a hundred...
Unhappily Employed
In last few years, many Kashmiris have been recruited in central paramilitary forces. Some of these recruits share their tales of frustration and disillusionment...
A Dangerous Flood is Coming
Nature intervened at its own last week when it stopped rains shortly before the waters spill over the banks of Jhelum River. But Kashmir...
Snatched Livelihood
Almost ten years after the army laid a siege around a cluster of villages in Drugmulla and occupied their paddy fields, the villagers are...
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...
Students Sans School
Caught between the Kendriya Vidyalay Sangathan and the district administration, scores of students of a centrally sponsored school in Tangmarg are distress these days....
Sacked
J&K is 'celebrating' 2011 as anti-corruption year, but the headless State Accountability Commission is mocking at the symbolism of India’s second most corrupt state....
Sure sour pie
Couples resort to court marriages, mostly, to overcome parental dissent. However, the notary registration of marriages, which is only valid in J&K is also...
Numbers Game
The decadal headcount has always kicked up controversies in J&K especially since 1981. Census Commissioner Farooq Ahmad Faktoo in an interview with Ikhlaq Qadri,...
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...