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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.

Zoom Courts

Forced to go virtual, the courts in Kashmir found the going tough during the lock-down in 2020, reports Saima Bhat In July 2020, Mohammad Sultan, 56,...

Primary Energy Primer

Kashmir’s energy deficit is a major public concern and the ongoing outages are a sort of rare summer crisis, especially in Srinagar. Tasavur Mushtaq...

Governance Gridlock?

In the deluge-hit Kashmir, victims counted on government for revival and rehabilitation. But a year later, both statistic and street voices seem at loggerheads...

Tick Talk

Delhi’s new interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma’s frequent Kashmir visits have not moved even a notch beyond what the local unionists in government and opposition normally...

The Disempowering Debate

Integration and subsequent bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir is the major happening in contemporary history with consequences within and outside India. But the work...

Divulging Details

Barely four months after the government justified undoing of Article 370 by asserting that Jammu and Kashmir’s backwardness was rooted in its special status,...

Recruitment Racket

With the selection list of police sub-inspectors already binned, there are strong possibilities that the Finance Accounts Assistant list and also the JE selection...

New Nominations, More Reservations

Lok Sabha passed two bills last week that took the nominated seats in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly to five and included a new...

Ration Ruckus

With government mulling to implement the Food Security Act by early next year, parts of state have risen up in protest, even consuming a...

Vohra Void

Narinder Nath Vohra was on a dental chair when Home Ministry conveyed him that his tenure is over. Later, he spent a few nights...

Trekking For 2G

Not far away from the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector, students climb to a hilltop to catch the low-speed mobile signal to...

Government Initiatives

JAMMU On the express directions of the Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha, the labour class has started getting some help as the lockdown prevents any work....

Disquiet In Medical Schools

With authorities opening a section of graduate and half of the postgraduate medical education berths to an All India Quota, most of the medical...

‘Fake’ Narratives?

With nearly 10000 employees comprising the migrant Kashmir Pandit Package employees and the reserved category SC employees on protest since May 2022, Lt Governor...

Lost Prime Minister

After replacing Sheikh Abdullah in 1953, Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad led a popularly corrupt regime. Syed Asma meets the former Prime Minister's surviving wife to...