The burden of being contractual

Where are they who felt so `concerned' about students losing their precious time. With contractual lecturers on strike and government showing no interest in meeting their genuine demands, poor students suffer the most. Who cares?

COMMENT By Hassan Zainagiree

Since June 27, college contractual lecturers have gone on an indefinite strike as government did not deliver on the assurances and promises it made with them. The strike has severely affected the class work. Many students have been forced to stay at home as not a single subject of theirs is being More
Art and resistance

I don't really remember what I was doing in December 2009, but I doubt I was thinking about Kashmir.

OTHER OPINION By Rafia Zakaria

Like many others I missed the news of the ban imposed by the Indian government on text messaging in the Valley. Merrily ignorant, I probably sent tens or even hundreds of texts. As is the case in most communities steeped in conflict, the burden of the (now lifted) ban fell on the nameless shoulders More
  • Kashmir

Give me peace to resolve all issues: Omar to people

Advocates strengthening of cross LoC trade

GK NEWS NETWORK

Wadipora (Chadoora), July 28: Terming peace imperative to address political issues and work out an amicable solution, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday appealed the people to help maintain tranquillity More


  • Srinagar City

‘STAFF-STARVED’ TRAFFIC POLICE CRAVES FOR WORKFORCE EXPANSION

Against requirement of 1000 cops, mere 250 manage City rush of 4 lakh vehicles

M HYDERI

Srinagar, July 28: Even though traffic mess is taking “serious proportions” with gridlocks and other mismanagement becoming almost a routine on the City roads, the coalition government has seemingly failed More



  • Jammu

Union HRD ministry mulls interim V-C

Former Bureaucrat Tipped

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY - JAMMU

GK NEWS NETWORKJammu, July 28: Union Human Resource Ministry is likely to appoint a former bureaucrat from Jammu and Kashmir as the first Vice-Chancellor of Central University Jammu, which has remained More


  • South Asia

BBC man among 21 killed in Afghan attacks

Kandahar, July 28: Taliban bomb and gun attacks on an official's compound and a militia base in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan today killed 21 people, including a local BBC reporter. Five More


  • National

Cabinet nod for Lokpal Bill; PM, judiciary out of purview

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 28: The Union Cabinet today cleared the much-debated Lokpal Bill keeping the office of the Prime Minister outside its purview notwithstanding incumbent Manmohan Singh's insistence on subjecting More


  • World

New Al-Qaeda chief praises Syrian protesters

Cairo, July 28: Al-Qaida’s new leader praised Syrian protesters seeking to topple the regime of President Bashar Assad while trying to portray the uprising as an Islamic battle against American and Israeli More


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