Policy

With Tata cellular services winding up their business in Jammu and Kashmir following the cancellation of their license by the telecom regulatory body TRAI,...

With the reservation asthmatic being reworked in Jammu and Kashmir, more than half of the admissions in professional courses, government jobs and promotions will...

The J&K government’s recent policy of posting new cadre of Kashmir Administrative Service officers with various departments temporarily has not only crippled the administration...

While reiterating almost everything about the state of economy in J&K, a just released study by the ASSOCHAM has revealed that the state has...

The state may not be able to realize water usage charges from NHPC, which sources say is contemplating court intervention to bypass the state...

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

Introduced in the summer of 2010 as a ‘non-lethal’ crowd control measure, pepper gas and chilly grenades were touted to restrain protests without causing...

Justice Verma Committee is not the first official report seeking review of AFSPA. Since 2004, several official panels have made such recommendations. The only...

With the curtains falling on the archaic treasury system in J&K and Payment & Accounts Office taking over, In this curtain raiser, Tasavur Mushtaq...

The liberal industrial policy has led to the acceptance of around Rs 50K crore investment proposals in less than a year, of which Rs...

Apart from suggesting statuses like ‘internally displaced’ and a religious ‘minority’ for Kashmiri Pandits, the Parliament’s standing committee, in its report, has emphasised the...

Demographic engineering is a subject that has historically triggered tensions in Kashmir. Last week when the state government started issuing ‘domicile certificates’ to West...

The mysterious and abrupt deportation of US national, Usmaan Ahmad Rahim and Argentinean footballer, Juan Marcos Troia, sets a bad precedent and shows our...

As J&K’s opposition parties are hoping the anti-incumbency against the ruling coalition and a possible Modi factor will help them become powerful, NC and...