Do we have a reason to celebrate?

WORLD DISABILITY DAY: DEC 3

False promises and half-hearted assurances apart, nobody has taken any conscious step to alleviate our sufferings. We continue to cry, no one listens, laments Javed Ahmad Tak

3rd December is observed as the International Day of persons with disability, proclaimed as a collaborative effort by the United Nations to celebrate and acknowledge the experience and capabilities of people with disabilities.History: The Day was initially marked in 1992 More
Faking the disability?

WORLD DISABILITY DAY DEC 3

A H Dar writes about the persons with disabilities and the problems they face, with special focus on the flawed policies of the Social Welfare Department

I am neither an expert nor a professional, nor a spokesperson of the state government. But here I narrate how disability is being cooked in Jammu and Kashmir. Believe me, I had a taste of the same in 1993 when I met with an accident – which resulted in a spinal injury and now I am orthopidically a More
  • Kashmir

JK freezes, Leh witnesses coldest night

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, Dec 2: The Jammu and Kashmir continued to reel under intense cold conditions with mercury dipping to minus 13.2 degree Celsius in Leh in frontier region of Ladakh, which witnessed the coldest More


  • Srinagar City

In anti - polythene drive,students gift paper bags

SPCB organizes awareness program

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 2: The City markets witnessed a peculiar scene Thursday when schoolchildren gifted people including traders and shoppers  paper bags during an awareness campaign against polythene menace More



  • Jammu

JK trade union threatens agitation

Centaur Hotel 'row'

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, Dec 2: Concerned over the "retrenchment" of jobs, a local trade union has threatened to launch an agitation against a deal of Hotel Corporation of India giving one of its hotels in  the Valley More


  • Business

Adopt modern technology to boost fruit production

Estimates Committee

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Dec 2: Committee on Estimates met here today under the chairmanship of Ch. Mohammad Ramzan.  The Committee called for collective efforts to improve horticulture sector with the active support More


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