Bare words won't do

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY AHEAD

It needs action on all fronts if we are really serious in cleaning our environment to make it liveable, writes Shamshad Kralwari

      After the UN Conference on environment and development popularly known as Earth Summit or Rio Summit in 1992, it has become a ritual to hold seminars, deliver speeches, conduct on the spot painting competitions, engage school children in road races during weeklong environment More
Together we can

MSF MENTAL HEALTH SERIES

MSF with its experience, efforts and professional approach is now focussing more on such types of community based work. Qurat-ul-Ain writes about the mental health issues in Kupwara

Professional mental health workers in Kashmir help people to harness their inbuilt capacities to build self reliance during tough and unpleasant times in their lives. It follows the philosophy of “better teach a person how to catch a fish rather than giving him one”. For example, by helping a person More
Fiction is not fictitious! Is it?

BOOKS

Whatever you read, it has great many things to offer. Reading a novel means reading the realities of life, writes Shazia Ayoub

Why do people read novels voraciously? Is it just a time pass, habit, a way to avoid boredom, or something else? Books are written for different purposes….related to science, facts or to serve for academic material. Here arises a question…Non-fiction alone is meaningful in the sense to More
  • Kashmir

Omar for integrated dev of weaker sections

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 1:  The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, on Tuesday said that integrated development of weaker sections of the society was the need of the hour. Chairing a high level meeting to More


  • Srinagar City

It's official now, Sangarmaal inauguration on June 5

CM to inaugurate, says deputy

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 1: Decks have finally been cleared for the inauguration of the much awaited Sangarmaal shopping plaza. An official handout Tuesday said Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah will inaugurate the More



  • Jammu

Multi-Crore FCI carriage contract case

DB orders release of deposited amount

Jammu, June 1: A Division Bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court today directed its Registry to release the amount deposited before it in favour of the Food Corporation of India. The directions were More


  • South Asia

Pak protests attack

GHULAMULLAH KIYANI

Rawalpindi, June 1: Hundreds of people staged massive protests against Israel’s attack on a flotilla of aid ships on way to Gaza, facing blockade for the past 3-years, across Pakistan and Pakistan administered More


  • Business

Police present challan against 4 CAPD officials

K-oil Scam

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, June 1: Police on Monday charge-sheeted four officials of the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department for their alleged involvement in the kerosene oil scam. Sources said that More


  • World

UNSC CONDEMNS ISRAELI ATTACK ON AID SHIPS

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

United Nations, June 1: The UN Security Council today condemned the Israeli attack on a flotilla carrying aid to the Gaza strip, with the powerful world body seeking a “full explanation” from the Jewish More


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