Census 2011: joint family is past
The district level data that the Census Organization released last week offers new insights over the way we live in J&K and the state...
J&K Bank: Uninterrupted Growth Story
The growth at J&K Bank remains to be uninterrupted. Even though Kashmir is passing through a crisis since June, the bank registered a net...
The indicators
Fighting the allegations of discrimination, J&K government managed the passage of a law guiding setting up of J&K State Finance Commission in August 2006....
State of Health
The National Family Health Survey-5 that was released last week offers a clear improvement in the overall health of women and the child and...
J&K: Houses and the Households
India’s Census Organization has released data pertaining to buildings, their use and the occupants besides the basic requirements of the population living in them.
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A Chronology of Inaction
The government has made it clear that it wants punishment for the personnel that kill innocents. Various investigations – magisterial and judicial – were...
Youth And Entrepreneurship
Mercy Corps, the US based charity operating in Kashmir, has carried out a detailed survey under its Start-up Kashmir Youth Entrepreneur (SKYE) Development Project,...
Special Police Officials (SPO)
SPOs are one of the many extra-constitutional structures that state’s policymakers devised during 1995’s gubernatorial regime. They are youth who are engaged at the...
Changing Practices Of Marriage In Kashmir
Noted sociologist Dr Bashir A Dabla (Sociology Department, University of Kashmir) lead a study to understand the transformations that the traditional practices of marriage...
The Government’s Armies
J&K government is the employer of the last resorts in the state that is suffering from comparatively high unemployment rate and lack of a...
Rajouri: A Crash Course In Development
Apart from the two cities of Jammu and Srinagar, J&K lives in 20 districts which are the basic administrative and developmental units. Comptroller and...
2009 Snippets
COSTLIEST POLICE STATION
Batamaloo police station is going to be the costliest station ever constructed by the cash-rich JKP. To be set up on five...
A Study in J&Ks Drinking
All of a sudden, liquor is in sharp focus. Two successive attacks within 24 hours in the twin capital cities of the state have...
