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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.

Interrupted childhood disrupted future

Youngsters are becoming a major causality in street protests in Kashmir. Apart from the bullets and batons, a number of children are now facing...

Minor wars

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is single handedly fighting on many fronts at the same time. A Kashmir Life report. In his media appearances these...

Virtual stones, real handcuffs

The crackdown on street protesting and stone pelting has reached to cyber world with police booking people for instigating unrest in south Kashmir’s Islamabad...

From hope to despair

Eighteen months down the line, optimism and hopes have turned into despair for Omar Abdullah, putting a question on his fate as chief minister....

Delhi directives

Situation in Kashmir forced a high level meeting in Delhi chaired by prime minister Manmohan Singh, which discussed a strategy to contain Kashmir unrest....

‘Saying civilians were killed is a misnomer’

Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai talks about the situation in Kashmir in an interview with Iftikhar Geelani KL: Violence is raging in Kashmir. Is...

June turmoil

For the third consecutive year, the month of June has turned out to be the most turbulent in Kashmir. Khursheed Wani reports It may be...

Guiding the industry

EDI programme is trying nurture industrial consultancy firms in J&K to boost the developing sector. Haroon Mirani reports. To plug the lacunae of professional consultants...

Lighting up Ladakh

Energy deficient Ladakh region is getting massive government investment in power sector, which will lower the ecologically fragile region’s reliance on polluting...

Strike over, crisis persists

The employees called off their strike even when none of their demands were met. The government invoked ESMA and threatened dismissals, and the courts...

Pronounced misery

After 14 years of suffering, a Delhi court verdict in Lajpat Nagpar blast case has brought respite to a few Kashmiri families, and aggravated...

PARALYSED STATE

As the confrontation between the government and its employees slumps trade and makes people suffer, KASHMIR LIFE analyses whether a solution to the crisis...

J&K’s PF Kitty Surges to 1200 Cr

R S GullJ&K’s Employees Provident Fund boasts of having a Rs. 1200 crores corpus. But it still has failed in recovering around Rs. 86...

Tourism jittery

Elections, violence rhetoric and global recession can give coming tourist season a set back after the initial impediment of houseboat closure. Haroon Mirani reports....

A ‘polythene free’ initiative

Shazia YousufTaking time out of their studies, a group of young boys busily commune with shopkeepers at Lal Chowk. It is not the bargain...