(Mis)governance and the Arab Crisis

What we are witnessing in Libya and other Arab countries is actually the culmination of decades of mis-governance in these countries

MIDEAST By Aijaz Ashraf Wani

Some of the primary characteristics of Failed States, writes Noam Chomsky, are (a) their inability or unwillingness to protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, (b) their tendency to regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and (c) if they have More
The Use and Abuse of Literature

Why read? The answer lies in the question `why live'?

TRENDS By Seth Lerer

Why read? You'd think that with the e-book and the Internet, with Google searching and channel surfing, the experience of curling up with a good book is as archaic as a buggy ride. You'd think, too, that with graphic novels and celebrity memoirs, and with Wikipedia offering their entries in "simple More
Gene Therapy

MUSINGS

So what’s to become of this society of people? Asks Ibreez

The entire South Asian subcontinent is angry. Just what about, no one is quite sure. This pent-up frustration is bestowed upon one harmless individual, in whom the seed of temper has now been sown, leading him to vent his spleen upon another, and so continues the vicious cycle. Anger for the sake More
  • Kashmir

VC distributes aid among specially challenged students

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Apr 7: The Vice-Chancellor of University of Kashmir Professor Riyaz Punjabi Thursday  distributed cheques, worth  Rs three lakhs among differently abled  students of the KU, at More


  • Srinagar City

FORGET HUMANS, GOVT ORDERS PROBE INTO DOG RIGHTS ABUSE

ON MERE ‘HEARSAY’ COMPLAINTS, APPOINTS SMC JT COMM TO INQUIRE POISONING OF SOME STRAY PACK

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Apr 7: At a time when dog menace has assumed alarming proportions with humans often felling prey to the deadly bites, the government seems to have gone concerned towards the animals by ordering More



  • Jammu

Cabinet Sub-Committee gets extension

JUSTICE SAGHEER PANEL REPORT

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Apr 7: Jammu and Kashmir Government Thursday extended the term of the Cabinet Sub-Committee constituted for examining the recommendations of Working Group on State-Center relationship. Official More


  • Briefs

World Health Day observed at IMI

Srinagar, Apr 7: On the world health day, Director Health services Kashmir today organised a seminar at Iqbal Memorial Institute Bemina Srinagar. The theme of the seminar ‘Combat drug Resistance’ More


  • Business

Valley consumers face brunt of mutton shortage

Govt, meat dealers adamant

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, Apr 7: While the prolonged strike of mutton dealers has put the common consumers in the Valley to a lot of convenience, the government as well as the dealers are adamant to budge from their respective More


  • News

Massive quake rattles Japan again

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Tokyo/Fukushima, Apr 7: Japan's quake-devastated northeast faced a fresh tsunami alert today after a massive 7.4 magnitude temblor shook the region, as engineers pumped in nitrogen into a reactor at the More


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