Justice and Kunan-Poshpora

Twenty-three years on, Kunan Poshpora survivors continue to strive for justice. Even as redress seems to be a distant dream, the survivors are determined to take their struggle to its logical end. Authorities have been concealing the truth right from the beginning, sometimes by intimidating the victims and sometimes by offering compensation. Truth is bitter, […]

Be wary of NC’s gimmicks: PDP

JAMMU: Opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday said the National Conference government had failed on all fronts and the people should be wary of its “deceitful tactics”. “NC-led government has failed on all fronts and has been brazenly included into deceitful tactics to hoodwink the people,” former Deputy Chief Minister and senior […]

Modi’s Rise, Freedom’s Fall

BY CHANDRAHAS CHOUDHURY Here are three strange but instructive instances of pride, pique and prejudice in modern India at different levels of state and society. To some Indians, they could represent the might and glory of the newly assertive motherland; to others of a perhaps more paranoid bent, they might indicate a creeping new culture […]

Prof Talat interacts with college, university teachers at Winter School Refresher Course

Srinagar: Vice Chancellor University of Kashmir Prof Talat Ahmad has stressed upon the need to formulate a robust mechanism so as to the develop colleges and universities of the state and achieve intended academic results through continuous exchange of ideas between the faculty and by developing better academic linkages. While interacting with around 50 faculty […]

Tripartite dialogue best possible solution to resolve K-issue: Shabir Shah

SRINAGAR: Terming the soft approach of United Nations and India’s stubbornness in resolving Kashmir issue as main reasons behind lingering of the longstanding Kashmir dispute, Hurriyat Conference Jammu and Kashmir (HCJK) senior leader Shabir Ahmad Shah Sunday said the peace in south Asia will remain a distant dream without resolving the issue. “It is due […]

J&K govt declares 45 villages as backward

JAMMU: 45 villages spread over certain districts in Jammu and Kashmir have been recently declared as backward areas, government informed the state Assembly on Sunday. The state government has recently notified 45 villages as backward areas on recommendations of Jammu and Kashmir Backward Classes Commission, Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo said during question hour. With […]

JKLF leaders detained en-route Kunan-Poshpora

SRINAGAR: Police on Sunday detained a group of JKLF leaders when they were on their way to Kunan-Poshpora villages of Kupwara district to attend a protest rally scheduled to be held on the 23rd anniversary of the alleged mass rape of at least 30 women by Indian soldiers. According to a JKLF spokesman, senior leaders […]

24th Police-Public Mela held

JAMMU: Results of raffle draw for prizes of Police Public Mela were announced at Police Sports Stadium Gulshan Ground here on Sunday evening. The draw was held in presence of large gathering of men, women and children. Small children drawn from the gathering picked the lucky numbers for prizes of different categories in presence of […]

Don’t Forget to Write

BY PAULO COELHO “There are two types of writers: those who make you think and those who make you dream” says Brian Aldiss, who made me dream for such a long time with his science-fiction books. In principle I believe that every human being on this planet has at least one good story to tell […]

Govt to monitor PMSSS

SRINAGAR: The State government had no role in implementing the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) neither was any NGO/ Private Organisation authorised for carrying it out, government said on Sunday. While replying to a joint question by Khalid Najib Suhrawardy, Sheikh Ghulam Rasool and Mohammad Muzafar Parray, Minister for Higher Education, Mohammad Akbar Lone, […]

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