BY SUVAID YASEEN The fight by the occupation, and against it, is about decisive control of spaces – physical, territorial as well as those of ideas. In the case of the former, no surprises then that the Indian state spends massively out of its wealth to maintain more than half-a-million armed forces in Jammu and […]
On Monday, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah finally laid the foundation stone of Srinagar city’s much-talked about first vertical housing project. Undertaken by the Srinagar Development Authority (SDA), the project is supposed to bring in apartment blocks to deal with the housing needs of the burgeoning summer capital. But 600 flats in a city of 1.35 […]
SRINAGAR: Casting doubts over the Lolab encounter in which Army claimed to have killed seven militants, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani Tuesday called for shutdown and protests on Friday. The use of “brute force” including firing and lathi-charge on people who were demanding the bodies of the slain and imposition of curfew in […]
New Delhi: Fatwa issued by Muslim clerics cannot be forced upon people and the state has to protect persons who are harassed for not following such dictates, the Supreme Court said Tuesday while expressing reservation in interfering with Shariat courts. Holding that it’s a matter of choice for the people to accept fatwa or not, […]
New Delhi: The Cabinet is likely to set the terms of reference of the 7th Pay Commission this week, paving the way for salary revision of over 50 lakh central government employees. The matter will be finalised at the proposed meeting as the government wants to settle the matter before model code of conducts are […]
Jammu: In a reshuffle at the top, K Rajendra was Tuesday appointed as Special Director General for Coordination at the Police Headquarters here, a week after he along with P L Gupta were promoted to the rank of Director General of Police. Rajendra, a 1984 batch IPS officer from Jammu and Kashmir, has served in […]
BY PAUL MONAGHAN 2012 was the year that the world woke up to the inequities of corporate tax avoidance, with the barefaced tax aggression of Starbucks, Amazon, Microsoft and others forcing the issue on to the front pages of the newspapers. In 2013 governments began to respond (albeit meekly), with Britain’s pledge to close the […]
LAHORE: Former Test captain Rashid Latif could get the job of the head of Pakistan Cricket Board’s anti-corruption and security unit, according to sources. Reliable sources in the PCB said that Latif was due to meet the Board Chairman Najam Sethi this week to discuss the position. “The Board is keen to involve Latif and […]
Jammu: Minister of State for Home Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo Tuesday informed the Legislative Assembly said that 3057 candidates have been appointed during special recruitment drives conducted in the police department from 2008 to 2013. Replying to a clubbed question by Abdul Haq Khan, T. Namgyal, Suknandhan Kumar and Sham Lal Choudhary, the Minister informed that […]
SRINAGAR: University of Kashmir (KU) is going to start post graduate course in Urdu in its South Campus. In a statement, KU PRO said the decision was in tune with the recent recommendations put forth by a high level committee, headed by chief secretary Iqbal Khanday, for the promotion and propagation of Urdu language in […]