By Pradipta Tapadar Kolkata: Driven by unemployment at home, hundreds of Kashmiri youths make Kolkata their winter abode selling a variety of woolens, mostly hand-woven, to customers who eagerly await their arrival. Though insurgency has seen a decline in the Kashmir Valley, there is high unemployment among educated youths who are compelled to fan out […]
BY JOHN SPRITZLER Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Constitutional scholar (like President Obama once was), is leading a march against corruption, by which he means the inordinate influence of Big Money on Congress. In an interview to Bill Moyers, Lessig says: “The solution is to change the way we fund elections by supporting small dollar-funded elections […]
BY VASUNDHARA SIRNATE In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, the main protagonist, Guy Montag, is a “fireman” whose task is to burn all books. Set in a fictional town in the American Mid-West, Fahrenheit 451 is about a society where “firemen” hunt people who hide books, raze their houses and burn all literature. Out of curiosity, one […]
New Delhi: India Friday came down hard on Pakistan for allowing Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, blamed for the 2001 Parliament attack, to “spew venom” against it, saying it was a matter of concern how a globally banned terrorist could address anti-India rallies. India’s reaction came a day after Pakistan sought to play down a […]
Srinagar: Following days of protests and shutdown, police Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team(SIT) to trace a youth kidnapped by unknown gunmen from his residence at Sopore last month. A shutdown was observed in Sopore town on Wednesday and Thursday over the alleged police inaction to trace the youth , Mushtaq Ahmad Changa, who was […]
The then Prime Minister of India, I. K. Gujral, hoped that the next round of Indo-Pak secretary level talks would start soon and cover all the eight points agreed to at the Islamabad meeting in June the previous year. Replying to a question on what the major hurdle in continuing the talks was, Gujral said: […]
Jammu: Kashmir University has been allotted 17 hectares of forest land for its campus at Wuyan in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, the government said Friday. Replying to a question by Advocate Abdul Haq Khan, Minister for Higher Education, Mohammad Akbar Lone, informed the Legislative Assembly that said under Prime Minister’s Reconstruction Plan Rs. 19.5 crore […]
JAMMU: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Friday said that major projects under implementation in the sectors of tourism, communication and beautification of cities of Srinagar and Jammu have been flagged as priority works and focused attention is on their timeline completion. Speaking to a deputation of Chambers of Commerce and Industries (CCI), Jammu led by its […]
Jammu: An amount of Rs 4.33 crore has been incurred as expenditure on repairing government vehicles from 2010 to 2013. The information was given by the Minister for Cooperatives, Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma while replying to a question Mr. Yashpal Sharma in the Legislative Assembly. The Minister said that State Motor Garages Department being the […]
Srinagar: An inmate of Central jail Srinagar died at the SMHS Hospital here on Friday, police said. Mukhtar Bhat son of Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat of Dalipora Pulwama was admitted to the hospital last evening after he complained of severe abdominal pain. The deceased was arrested on September 19 last year in case FIR (259/2013) under […]