Dialogue is a must

INDO-PAK RELATIONS

Both India and Pakistan need to make certain compromises on some contentious issues they are facing and move ahead for better relations and peace, writes Amit Ranjan

India and Pakistan have just concluded a bilateral dialogue on February 26, 2010. Earlier it was thought that the talks will be ‘composite’. But then India made it clear that it is not interested in a composite dialogue, so the talk was a limited one and various contentious issues were not talked about More
When writers experience ‘block’

EXPERIENCE

I cannot believe that I have finally overcome the ‘writers’ block’, narrates Souzeina Mushtaq

Nothing can ever be as shocking as life. Except writing- Ibn Zerhani“Your write-ups, Souzeina? We are missing them!” asked a school teacher of mine some time back. “Mam, I’m planning to write one but I think I am passing through writers’ block,” was my candid reply, but it was all unimpressive. She More
Women in Kashmir

GENDER

She has a role to play and she must be given her space, writes Wasim Ali

Kashmir has been central to political discourses in India. The impact on women due to the ongoing conflict in the State has received little or no attention. There are no precise estimates, official or non-official, of the number of women widowed during turmoil. The two decades of conflict has deeply More
  • Kashmir

Power shut down

Srinagar, Mar 22: According to Power Controller Kashmir, 33/11 K.V.2x6.3 MVA Receiving Station Hazratbal including Branch cutting of Hazratbal tap Line, installation 33 KV link set etc. shut down of 33KV More


  • Srinagar City

CAPD books 7 shopkeepers

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 22: Intensifying its campaign against black-marketing, a team of Consumers Affairs and Public Distribution today conducted checking of various markets in the city outskirts and booked seven More



  • Jammu

Kani Shawl gets GI status

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, Mar 22: Famous for its hand-woven designs, Kashmir’s Kani Shawl has got the Geographical Indication (GI) status that would legally prohibit people from selling the drapes made at other places under More


  • South Asia

Modi agrees to appear before SIT

Gandhinagar, Mar 22: Giving a new twist, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who refused to appear before the SIT, today called as a “lie” that the Supreme-court appointed panel had fixed March 21 for More


  • GK Business

Enhanced allocation in agriculture welcomed

RABIA NOOR

Srinagar, Mar 22: The budget 2010-11 has won favour with the farming and fruit dealer/grower community in the Valley who have hailed the “enhanced allocations for horticulture and agriculture” but with More


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