A BOOM failing is no good news
In power deficit J&K, successive governments have made good decisions and bad decisions leaving it to successors to make corrections. NC government initiated the...
Managing Dal and houseboats
Houseboat operations have been stopped to save the dying Dal, but environmentalists say that is too little too late.
Zubair A. Dar
The Jammu and Kashmir...
Where are Juvenile homes
Shazia Yousuf
With her head resting in her grandmother’s lap, nine-year-old Iqra makes unsuccessful attempts to sleep. She is in trauma and her body burns...
Ok we pay: From where?
The implementation of 6th pay commission recommendations may have brought relief to the state employees, but the financial implications and emerging disparities in pay...
Right to Information! How much?
J&K Government has issued the draft of a new Right to Information Act proposed to replace the state’s existing RTI Act. Is the proposed...
Caged
With six PSAs in a row and 16 in all, Masarat Alam holds a kind of record. The state, however, is in no mood...
Skewed, Skimpy SKEWPY
Billed as a landmark, the government’s employment and welfare programme is mostly a cocktail of existing schemes with some more doles thrown in. Many...
More than a commissioner
Wajahat Habibullah is ready to take over as J&K first CIC, but his understanding of Kashmir coupled with his unhindered access to 10 Janpath...
Towards A Legislator Oriented Model For J&K
The state's administrative authority has to be subservient to government development functionality, says economist and banker Dr Haseeb A Drabu.
In J&K there is a normal...
Infant hospital
Valley’s sole children hospital, GB Pant, has only 135 beds for a child population of 10 lakh. With only three incubators the hospital is...
Public carrier, private woes
For SRTC it has been a journey from riches to rags. The state’s prime mover of men and material has been accumulating losses for...
PACKAGING POLITICS
The last two decades have seen various prime ministers announce a flurry of economic packages for Jammu and Kashmir. The state government is expecting...
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...
Ready to cage
J&K government’s plans to build more jails can prevent detainees from being lodged outside the Valley. Kashmir Life reports. Apparently realising that the existing...
Mysterious Rajouri fever spreading
While the Swine Flu threat, that grabbed a lot of media attention, seems to be under control in the J&K, the state is oblivious...