The Lease Row
Over the years, the successive governments skipped extending the lease of innumerable land parcels as a result of which hundreds of properties in hospitality...
The Reservation Riddle
With the reservation asthmatic being reworked in Jammu and Kashmir, more than half of the admissions in professional courses, government jobs and promotions will...
Remodelling Universities
A draft bill is making sweeping changes in the system of managing the universities in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Yawar Hussain
The newly formulated Jammu and...
Old Taxes Return
In the forward-looking GST regime, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has revived an abolished tax that is expected to be collected for the last...
Understanding The Proposal
With its proposals triggering a lot of heat and dust in Jammu and Kashmir, the Delimitation Commission is expecting an extension. Khalid Bashir Gura...
Dubai Details
The liberal industrial policy has led to the acceptance of around Rs 50K crore investment proposals in less than a year, of which Rs...
Consumed Careers
Successive governments have mindlessly “hired” people on an ad-hoc, provisional and temporary basis. They keep the government’s service delivery show going on at almost...
Probing A Secret
For the first time in decades, the federal investigators are probing the secret fund, triggering discussions across Jammu and Kashmir, reports Tahir Bhat
After remaining...
Developmental Democracy?
The Naya Kashmir of the twenty-first century is “by the corporation, of the corporation, and for the corporations", writes Haseeb A Drabu
After decisively changing...
Paying For Possession
The Ministry of Home Affairs has delegated the authority to impose and collect the property tax on urban and suburban areas and people are...
Residency To Reservations
After being legally protected for 108 years, Kashmiris find themselves out in the open as reservation rules replace Residency rights. Haseeb A Drabu analyses the legal,...
Jammu’s Alternating Narratives
After the gruesome Kathua tragedy, almost everybody is asking: what is happening in Jammu? And why is it happening at all? Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal...
New Payment System
With the curtains falling on the archaic treasury system in J&K and Payment & Accounts Office taking over, In this curtain raiser, Tasavur Mushtaq...
Redefining Demography
If J&K loses its battle in the Supreme Court over the new minority debate, Muslims will lose a slew of benefits that come to...
Missing Moneybags
State and the central governments would massively invest in incentives to the manufacturing sector, a process that GST has interrupted. As the policymakers insist...