Streamline the system

EDUCATION

If candidate errs, charge him. If authorities err, what then?

J&K State Board of School Education is a part of school education department which has to follow rules and regulations passed from time to time by J&K Government for student welfare. However since two years J&K Board is thrusting some circulars/directions which do not seem sound in letter More
Pragmatism. Who denies

But the question is at what cost?

WORDS WITHIN By Firdous Syed

Idealism and pragmatism----the two most profound attributes of the human behaviour---- apparently sound contradictory.  Yet these are the two facets---- endeavour and the logic--- of the same coin---- the life. Every human effort seeking an extra-ordinary change without a necessary dose of idealism More
Demise of Interlocution

By taking sides, you have only abused this institution of Interlocution

VIEWPOINT By Dr. Sheikh Showkat Hussain

Wherever there is a conflict, there are different ways to resolve it. It may be resolved through adjudication, mediation, and arbitration or through use of good offices of a third party. Interlocution is also one of the modes of peaceful resolution of disputes. It involves utilizing services of some More
The leadership debate

FEEDBACK

The question of instrumental leadership is vital

Rifat IqbalThis refers to debate on charismatic and instrumental leadership sparked by Z.G. Muhammad (GK 18-7-2011). I read the letters and articles in response to ZGM’s article including those by Dr. Abdul Ahad, G.M. Bawan and Dr. Javid Iqbal and debate thereafter. Debates are More
  • Kashmir

Timber smugglers on prowl in Bandipore

‘Chop 10-40 green trees everyday’

TARIQ RASOOL

Bandipora, Aug 12: Residents of Ajas, Mulkhiuhama and other adjoining areas in this north Kashmir district on Friday alleged that officials of the Forest Department have failed to check the timber smuggling More


  • Srinagar City

HC pulls up admin on dog menace

Directs for construction of ponds in 2 weeks; says sterilization not priority, catch dogs first

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Aug 12: The High Court on Friday pulled up administration for failing to put a check on the dog menace and directed it to come up with dog ponds within two weeks.  The division bench comprising More



  • Jammu

2 families claim body, blood samples collected for DNA test

SURANKOTE FAKE ENCOUNTER

AZHAR MANHAS

Surankote, Aug 12: Police have collected blood samples of two families- which claimed that that youth killed in a fake encounter resembles with their sons – for DNA matching, official sources said here More


  • South Asia

Death, life sentences to Pak Ranger in killing case

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Karachi, Aug 12: An anti-terrorism court today handed out death sentence to a Pakistani paramilitary trooper and life sentences to six others convicted of killing an 18-year-old unarmed man, who was publicly More


  • World

Mass protests staged across Syria, 4 killed

Damascus, Aug 12: Syrian security forces opened fire Friday killing four people as thousands of anti-regime protesters poured onto streets of flashpoint cities after the Ramadan weekly prayers, rights More


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