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...
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...