BY ARUNDHATI ROY Everybody is shocked at what you have gone and done – at your out-of-court settlement with an unknown Hindu fanatic outfit – in which you seem to have agreed to take Wendy Donniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History off the bookshelves of ‘Bharat’ and pulp it. There will soon no doubt be protestors gathered […]
SRINAGAR: Block Employment Resource Centre for Youth (BERCY), a Gram Panchayat based community driven learning pilot funded under UMEED programme of Govt. of J&K and implemented by J&K EDI, Fridayinaugurated ‘Nawnihaal Chathaal’, the first community based pre-school for disadvantaged families at Ratnipora, Pulwama. According to BERCY, the aim of the community school was to provide […]
sabhi kuchh hai tera diya hua, sabhi rahatein, sabhi ulfatein kabhi suhbatein, kabhi furqatein, kabhi duuriyan, kabhi qurbatein ….. chalo aao tum ko dikhayein hum jo bacha hai maqtal-e-shehr mein yeh mazaar ahl-e-safa key hain, yeh hain ahl-e-sidq ki turbatein In an intellectual life ranging from religious education, studies in literature, a career as an […]
ANANTNAG: District Development Commissioner, Anantnag Friday stressed upon the concerned authorities to work for the quick disposal of the cases of unemployed youth for establishment of income generating units. District Development Commissioner, according to an official statement, was addressing the local advisory committee meeting of Rural Self Employment Training Institute (RSETI), here. The meeting was […]
Srinagar: Ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the infamous Kunan-Poshpora mass rape, the J&K Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), which is support group for ‘Justice for Kunan-Poshpora Survivors’, has decided to observe February 23 every year as ‘Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day’. In a statement here Friday, a JKCCS spokesperson said, “On the occasion of the […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference(M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday demanded strict action against former health minister of Jammu and Kashmir Shabir Ahmad Khan, who is facing charges of sexual assault, and the constitution of an “impartial” inquiry commission to look into infamous sex scandal that rocked the state in 2006. “The rulers in Jammu and Kashmir […]
Ghulam Muhammad Bulla was arrested on February 11, 1975, and killed in custody on February 15. People observed a total strike on February 28 in response to a call by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, to protest a political accord between Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. Much has been said […]
Srinagar: The Joint Amalgam of Doctors and Paramedical Associations (JADPA) Friday strongly condemned what it termed as red carpet treatment being provided by the government to former Health Minister Shabir Ahmad Khan despite charges of sexual assault against him. “The medical fraternity of Valley is immensely dejected by the way the culprit was treated as […]
WELLINGTON: Ishant Sharma exploited the seaming conditions brilliantly to return with a career-best 6/51 as India took early control of the second and final Test by skittling out New Zealand for a paltry 192 in the first innings on Friday. Sharma justified captain MS Dhoni’s decision to bowl first on a greentop as the lanky […]
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal has quit as the Chief Minister of Delhi. According to reports, the Delhi Cabinet has taken the decision to quit. Kejriwal is likely to meet Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung to tender his resignation. The cabinet has also recommended the dissolution of the assembly and demanded fresh polls. Earlier, Kejriwal gave enough […]