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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.

Refer to Srinagar

Tertiary health care services in Srinagar are crumbling under the rural rush, as district hospitals are skipping their responsibilities and referring patients to Srinagar...

A Quiet Surrender

The National Conference led government was keen to protect district cadre jobs for home districts alone. But when the moment arrived it chose to...
Aasiyeh Andrabi

Afraid of a woman!

The state government’s insistence on keeping woman separatist Asiya Andrabi jailed out of Kashmir surprises even the apex court of India.  Hamidullah Dar reports. As...

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...

Salaries revised, complaints remain

Employees in Jammu and Kashmir are set to draw their revised salaries for July after the implementation of sixth pay commission. But the employees...

Sham of a decision

Political bosses are taking the state bureaucracy for granted while making decisions that are of vital public importance. Kashmir life brings an inside view...

Srinagar roads get overhaul

Hamidullah DarAfter two decades of neglect the roads of Srinagar are undergoing macadamisation on a massive scale that aims to take its ramshackle roads...
A photograph of the shrine of Mukhdoom Sahab taken in 1899.

A Trust Questioned

The major custodian of Muslim properties in Kashmir, Waqf or Auqaf, has remained beyond scrutiny for decades, though its management of donations and assets...

Fighting polythene

By banning polythene usage, the first step to fight the menace has been taken. But lack of alternatives and absence of eco-friendly disposal mechanism...

Organized mess

As everyone wants a private vehicle, authorities struggle to find road space and parking lots to smoothen their flow. Majid Maqbool reports.  Continuing increase...

Done in by the dons

Home Minister P Chidambaram was requested by the state government to review the development projects in J&K. It may not have helped the state...

Beautifying Jhelum

R S GulFor a little over three km stretch in the heart of Srinagar,  the meandering Jhelum looks a bit pampered, especially when compared...

Shadow of 90s: Torture 09

The infamous torture centre of 90s Papa 2 and Hariniwas may have been converted into palatial mansions,

Politics of poverty

Former deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig struck out his name from proposed BPL list in

Omar’s Hari Niwas turndown

A house of his own was apparently the only factor for the chief minister to decide against making the Rs 500 cr spooky Hari...