What comes first?

Sentiment or survival or both or none?

WORDS WITHIN By Firdous Syed

The conflict ridden state of Jammu and Kashmir is mired in deep troubles. And it is believed that territorial dispute on Kashmir is the source of all the ills. The time has come to unravel the mystery. Undeniably the conflict has given rise to many new problems, but what has made the conflict an intractable More
The politics of Reservation

It is time to put an end to the practice, once and for all

CONCERN By Shafiq Ahmad Rather

The three-member team of interlocutors appointed by the centre to talk to “all shades of opinion” in Jammu and Kashmir has recommended scheduled tribe status to Pahari speaking people. An internecine war of words has already been going on between the Gujjars and the so-called Pahari speaking people More
  • Kashmir

Class-IV posts in AHD

Aspirants cry foul in selection list

WILL LOOK INTO MATTER: MINISTER

KHALID GULIslamabad (Anantnag), Jan 28: The candidates who had applied for the class-IV posts in the Animal Husbandry Department here have alleged large scale bungling in the selection process. “Many More


  • Srinagar City

Devotees complain of inconvenience

Say erratic power, pungent water, shortage of space affect celebrations

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, Jan 28: While scores throng the hillock shrine of Hazrat Sheikh Hamzah Makhdoom Sahib (RA) during the ongoing Urs, the Intizaamiya Committee and the devotees there have accused the government More



  • Jammu

PDP mocks at government's call for talks with separatists

Demands release of all political prisoners

Jammu, Jan 28: Accusing ruling alliance of using “draconian methods” to establish its authority, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Friday mocked at the state government's repeated calls More


  • News in Brief

Attention Bla SW candidates

Baramulla, Jan 28: According to District Social Welfare officer Baramulla, those students who were provided cheques under scholarship schemes during 2009-10 and 2010-11, should immediately cash those cheques More


  • Business

JK participates in SATTE 2011

11 lakh tourists visited Kashmir in 2010: Jora

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 28: Minister for Tourism and Culture, Nawang Rigzin Jora today stressed that J&K needed to be promoted aggressively as a tourism destination across the globe.He said the tourism sector More


  • News

No dramatic outcome expected in Thimpu

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Jan 28: It will be an attempt to “unlock” the process of normalisation of ties when Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in Thimphu early next month More


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