Behind the Act

VIEWPOINT

What if reservation is allowed to persist, comments Dr. Sheikh Showkat Hussain

The recent bill adopted by Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly provides that only those who are domiciled in a particular district can apply for the posts of district cadre. This sounds to be a measure of protecting interests of residents of backward districts of the state. Those belonging to backward More
Beyond poll razzmatazz

PANCHAYAT ELECTIONS

Unless masses enjoy civil liberty, this all is fruitless, comments N Ahmad

So the cat is out of bag. Panchayat (P) Raj elections, if all goes well, shall be held in J&K in September or maybe much before given that Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh during his recently concluded two-day visit to Kashmir inveigled the state government to expedite the PR polls. So far so good More
Ground work needed

KASHMIR

The recent visit of prime minister raises some pertinent questions, writes S.Jahangir Bukhari

Prime Minister's statement at Sheri Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, SKUAST Kashmir needs to be read between the lines. “We wish to carry forward the process of dialogue and we are ready to hold talks with the representative of any group which shuns violence and terror” More
  • Kashmir

Biggies out to disturb natural Pahalgam habitat

KHALID GUL

‘C-16 ZONE OF MAMMAL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY PUT UNDER PERMISSIBLE ZONE IN 2006  MASTER PLAN TO BENEFIT BUREAUCRATS POLITICIANS’Pahalgam, June 10: With increasing man-animal conflicts becoming a grave More


  • Srinagar City

After Finnish, Dal to get Swiss machines

‘Truxor designed to restore blocked waterways’

ARIF SHAFI WANI

 Srinagar, June 10: In its endeavour to salvage the blocked waterways and channels of the Dal lake, the government has procured sophisticated Truxor machines from Switzerland.   After successfully More



  • Jammu

Trooper electrocuted

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu: A CRPF trooper was electrocuted at Battal Ballian in Udhampur, police said. The deceased has been identified as A Rao. More


  • South Asia

Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project commercial pact: Basit

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, June 10: Terming Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline contract purely as a commercial pact the Pakistan foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit on Thursday said the agreement signed by the two countries More


  • Business

3-day event to review agriculture status in JK

21st regional committee meet of ICAR begins at SKUAST-Jammu

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 10: The 21st Regional Committee Meeting of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for J&K, Himachal Paradesh and Uttrakhand began at SKUAST-Jammu. The meet was inaugurated More


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