Coin Scrap
Coins and their denominations are markers of history. Like the 2 paise, the 3 paise and the 10 paise coins earlier, the 25 paisehas...
Tagging Citizens
Barely two per cent of India’s 1.2 billion people have got the 12-digit Unique Identity number but the UID Authority of India is pushing...
Permitting prying
The Union Cabinet’s approval of NATGRID has again raised fears of intrusion into citizens’ privacy in the absence of any privacy laws in the...
Policing the rivers
With the increase in incidences of drowning in Kashmir, the small team of rescue and recovery River Police is ill-equipped and lacks manpower to...
Home Coming
Two decades after the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, a combo offer of employment and rehabilitation by the state government beckons them to return....
Legislating conversion
After years of crying hoarse over the arbitrary conversion of land use, the government finally came out with a bill but the lawmaker’s burnt...
Not ready to pay
The state may not be able to realize water usage charges from NHPC, which sources say is contemplating court intervention to bypass the state...
Budget 2011-12: Structural Reforms
Structural reforms are like medical surgery. Such surgical operations have to be carried out only when they become inevitable and they always result into...
Rangarajan III
Rangarajan committee has submitted its report on employment generation in J&K. Will the recommendations see implementation or will it meet the same fate as...
Losing confidence
The measures announced by New Delhi to defuse tensions in Kashmir seem to be lost for want of implementation. A Kashmir Life report. Eight...
Dividing the conflict
As governments in Delhi and Srinagar continue to remain in political inertia over Kashmir, an RSS think tank has suggested dividing the state into...
PARALYSED STATE
As the confrontation between the government and its employees slumps trade and makes people suffer, KASHMIR LIFE analyses whether a solution to the crisis...
Securitizing Autonomy
A new law empowering banks to dispose off mortgaged assets of a defaulter to realize its money clash with state subject laws in J&K....
Skewed, Skimpy SKEWPY
Billed as a landmark, the government’s employment and welfare programme is mostly a cocktail of existing schemes with some more doles thrown in. Many...
Financing Healthcare: Some Innovative Options
On the 27th Annual Day of SKIMS (December 5, 2009), economist, and banker Dr Haseeb A Drabu delivered the Sher-i-Kashmir Oration suggesting a business...
