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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.

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...

Leave, Please!

For bulge of workforce working on contractual basis in government sector leave is an emotional issue. While their permanent counterparts enjoy all perks, they...

Ladakh In Action

Unlike Kashmir, the soon-to-be Union Territory of Ladakh is actively working to consolidate the gains that came to the arid region in wake of...

Sheikhs In Srinagar

Three months after a couple of UAE’s retail chains started importing Kashmir products, a major delegation of the potential investors spent three days in...

Half A Decade

Jammu and Kashmir completed 1825 days (five years) without an elected government on June 19, 2023. With impressive tourist footfall, minimal militancy and not...

Chased to death

Faizan Buhroo’s death by drowning, allegedly in a commotion caused by police chase is not the only one of its kind. There are three...

Formalizing Business

In wake of the crisis over the quality of medicines that government purchases for its hospitals in Kashmir, Omar Abdullah government revived Congress’s plan...

Selective Relief

Those who expected major overhaul in the system post floods must be disappointed. The system that governed the distribution of relief checques runs on...