Legislature

Banks have been arguing for various years now that lack of SARFAESI has compromised their confidence in being liberal in J&K. Taking the view...

The government has scuttled a bill aimed at preventing torture by police and punishing the perpetrators. Khursheed Wani analyses why the state is reluctant...

As Kashmir assembly begins its stormy budget session, the opposition is united in disorder. The objective is to have some impact on Chief Minister’s...

The BJP won a historic mandate in Jammu - 11 of the 87 seats in 2008 state elections after enforcing an economic blockade on...

A law that allows banks to take over the mortgaged collaterals in case of willful defaults has taken Kashmir by storm after a division...

Cutting across the ideological divide, political parties in Kashmir have found a common cause in Article 35(A) of the Constitution of India that right-wingers...

As Jammu and Kashmir has started the process of sending a new group of representatives to the new Lok Sabha, Muhammad Younis offers certain...

It is been argued since long that politics and business are hand in glove, but in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, they are...

With assembly active and no government in place, various politicians are attempting to get power and are keenly exploring the possible loopholes in state’s...

The Governor of Jammu and Kashmir gave his ascent recently to a law against domestic violence six years after the Indian Parliament passed a...

It takes Rs 100 annually to secure VVIPs in a cash starved state. Safwat Zargar reports the largesse of a system that scrooge on...

Politics has ceased to be a social service. It is a formal profession now. A generation is keen to upscale what it acquires. An...

Insisting that the notion of representative democracy has changed and the fundamental shifts have taken place in the governance systems, Dr Haseeb Drabu was...

While the state government has been calling for repealing of AFSPA, it has generally evaded debates on PSA over which it has all the...