Good people, bad system?

GOVERNANCE

Muhammad Maroof Shah writes about the advantages and disadvantages of the system of governance in Jammu and Kashmir

Why should I be an aspirant for administrative posts? It is better to aspire to be a politician if we want power.Officers dance on the fingers of politicians, often the lesser educated class whom still lesser educated masses choose with the efforts of least educated gundas who run election campaigns More
CNN: Marketing news as a product

MEDIA

The Network is facing new challenges as it completes 30 years, writes Ashok Orga

It was in June 1980 that the world saw the birth of Cable News Network ( CNN ) – the world’s first 24 hour news channel, thereby heralding the new era of immediacy and linking the world to major events, no matter where they occurred. The tagline ‘It is always primetime somewhere’ best summed up the More
We the Tabeebs

FEEDBACK

If calling ISM professionals ‘Doctors’ hurts anyone’s ego, please call us Tabeebs! Farooq Ahmad Dar responds to Dr Mushtaq Chalkoo’s article “Demeaning doctors’

This refers to Dr Mushtaq Chalkoo’s article titled “Demeaning doctors, misleading patients”. Since the writer has cast aspersions on the credentials of professionals of Indian System of Medicine and Healthcare, who look after the health of almost 70 percent people in India, I think the record needs to More
  • Kashmir

Life returns to normal

YOUTH CLASH WITH POLICE AT MAISUMA

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, June 23: As life limped back to normal in most parts of the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday, scores of youth took to the streets at Maisuma here and clashed with police and paramilitary CRPF men More


  • Srinagar City

Harwan garden to get facelift

CM for comprehensive upgradation plan

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 23: The Harwan garden on the City outskirts will get a facelift along with its water feeder, the adjoining lake (Sarband). This is what the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Wednesday called More



  • Jammu

Mid-Day Meal scheme under scanner

GOVT FAILS TO UTILIZE RS 34 CRORE TO CONSTRUCT KITCHENS

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, June 23: The state government has failed to utilize Rs 34 crore which central   government had sanctioned to construct kitchen-cum-stores in the schools for preparations of meals under More


  • South Asia

Cabinet to discuss Bhopal package today

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 23: The Union Cabinet will discuss on Thursday the report of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal gas disaster that has recommended enhanced compensation to the victims under a Rs 1,500 More


  • Business

Kashmiri Pandit cuisine food festival inaugurated at Peerzo Island

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 23: Nene Yakheen, Choak Charvan, Ranith Gadhe…! Now tasting these mouth watering traditional dishes of Kashmir is not a big deal as the exclusive cuisine is available at the picturesque More


  • World

Fate of US forces chief in Afghanistan unclear

Washington, June 23: The top US military commander in Afghanistan has left the White House after meeting President Barack Obama to explain his criticism of leading officials. Gen Stanley McChrystal More


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