OP-ED

Showkat Ahmad Corruption and red-tape are the biggest hurdles to the development of various states in India, especially J&K, where the state of political affairs...

Umair HaqaniIn the run up to the republic day, Kashmir is usually tense with manifold increase in security forces’ deployment. Every year security checks,...

Umair AhmadOver the last two decades the weather in Kashmir has been behaving, to put it bluntly, erratically as far as snow and rainfall...

Muhammad AhseemLack of a healthy drug policy in J&K has been taking a heavy toll. The latest victim is a seven-day-old baby, who died...

Ahmad Riyaz
In the past three weeks, state government has booked two teachers for allegedly breaching the academic norms in setting two examination papers. One, a Gandhi College lecturer Noor Mohammad Bhat was arrested for drawing up an anti-establishment paper.

Dr. Bashir A DablaWorld over the ‘international disability day’ was observed on December 3, 2010. Our state too had the honour to observe it,...

Dr. Bashir A DablaA famous contemporary sociologist observed that human society was characterized by two parallel but inter-acting phenomena of ‘social statics’ and ‘social...

Arshid MalikHa. Ha. I just couldn’t stop laughing out loud. I burst out laughing when, a few days ago, I read a news item...

Javeed AhmadKashmir is a long-pending dispute - the assertion found its way into President Obama’s recent public pronouncements in New Delhi. The statement lit-up...

Arshid MalikForgotten? No, we never do forget:We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,Leave them to bleach out in the open day,Or...

Muhammad AhseemIn regions of conflict, development always takes a backseat. With reports suggesting that most of the funds meant for the development of basic...

Tarique A BhatOrganizations share clarity of vision concerning what they are, and what it is they want to achieve. It’s a question of focus....