BY WAYNE ELLWOOD Say what you will about the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez; he had chutzpah. What better place to a make a point about Latin America’s colonial inheritance than in front of the world’s media? So it was with a sense of occasion that the smiling Chávez strode across the floor of the […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (HCBA) while strongly “condemning the use of brutal force by police and army on protestors in Lolab,” Wednesday supported the shutdown call given for Friday by Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, against the incident. “The Bar Association feels that the people, who had assembled outside […]
SRINAGAR: A delegation of doctors whose result has been withheld by Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) in its notification of select list for the posts of Medical Officers in Health & Medical Education Department dated 25 February 2014 have appealed chairman PSC to notify their results. The doctors have also appealed the chairman […]
Srinagar: Residents of Gousia Colony Chanapora on Wednesday urged concerned officials to carryout necessary repairs in the drainage system in the locality to alleviate problems facing them especially during rain. “With rain for few minutes, flood like situation arises in our locality and the water peeps into our houses and compounds,” a delegation of the […]
SRINAGAR: For the first time the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is sponsoring an interdisciplinary project on Dal Lake for the development of a comprehensive action plan for effective management of the lake system. The project titled “Strategy and action plan for strengthening the ecological integrity of the Dal Lake” is being implemented by the […]
The US said: Consistent with the United Nations Security Council Resolution of December 21, 1971, the United States favors the continuation of the ceasefire between India and Pakistan and the withdrawal of all military forces to within their own territories and to their own sides of the ceasefire line in Jammu and Kashmir; the United […]
BY M ZIAUDDIN I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it. —Voltaire This has been the dilemma of those known in some circles as the ‘fundamentalists’ of democracy, free speech, rule of law, human rights, social justice and tolerance. Whenever these principles have come under […]
SRINAGAR: A delegation of residents from Lattar village of Chadoora in central Kashmir’s Budgam district Wednesday alleged that the village Panchayat members were misusing public funds for personal use. “We demand that government should probe all the works being done under MGNAREGA in our village as the village Sarpanch, Ghulam Mohi-u-Din Najar along with his […]
The resignation came hours after submarine INS Sindhuratna had a mishap off the Mumbai coast New Delhi: A spate of accidents involving the Naval warships Wednesday claimed the job of Navy Chief Admiral D K Joshi who quit taking moral responsibility and his resignation was promptly accepted by Defence Minister A K Antony. The resignation […]
Balasore: For the third time in a span of five days, India successfully test-fired the indigenously developed surface-to-air missile Akash missile system from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Odisha on Wednesday. “Like the trials of the surface-to-air missile conducted on February 22 and 24, today’s test fire of Akash was successful,” a defence […]