Of Panchayat Polls

2011 offers an opportunity

IMPRESSIONS By Binoo Joshi

Panchayat elections are  over in Jammu and Kashmir.  But the most difficult part is the empowerment of these institutions. Some motivated media reports have hinted at the “ public backlash”  if the  panchayats are not empowered, to which Chief Minister Omar Abdullah  angrily More
Delhi’s veiled ‘Kashmir cell’

Listen to the political voices of Kashmir

ANALYSIS By Fida Iqbal

After uprising of 1931, the year 1947 changed the political landscape of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir in particular experienced much of political drama and maneuvering. Like the rest of the sub-continent emancipated people and their leadership in Kashmir enjoyed their freedom. But More
  • Kashmir

OMAR CONGRATULATES SARPANCHS, PANCHS

‘Be prepared to shoulder greater responsibility’

TARIQ RASOOL

Sonawari (Sumbal), June 20: Expressing satisfaction over the successful completion of Panchayat elections in the state, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on Monday congratulated newly elected Sarpanchs and More


  • Srinagar City

After Airport Road, ERA takes highway ‘hostage’

IMPROPER DRAINAGE WORK CAUSES MISHAPS; ADMIN SLEEPS

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, June 20: As if the month-long inconvenience faced by the people on the Airport Road in May wasn’t enough that the Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) has again taken the busy road hostage by More



  • Jammu

Cong MP faces wrath of party colleagues

GK NEWS NETWORK

Kishtwar, June 20:  Senior Congress leader and Member Parliament (MP) from Udhampur-Kathua parliamentary constituency Choudary Lal Singh had to face the wrath of his party colleagues here on Monday More


  • Briefs

Regularize ReZs: Tarigami to Govt

Srinagar, June 20: The state secretary of CPI (M) and MLA Kulgam M Y Tarigami has urged the government to concede to the legitimate demands of the Agriculture technocrats having been engaged as Rehber More


  • Business

Low quality day-old chicks threaten Valley poultry industry

Experts appeal govt to check the menace

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 20: With the day-old chick imports to the Valley shooting up sharply, many unscrupulous traders here have started importing “poor quality chicks” to make some quick bucks, sources said. & More


  • News

‘Exempting CBI from RTI could be counter-productive'

Former CIC Writes To PM

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 20: Wajahat Habibullah, the first Chief Information Commissioner, threw his weight behind the opposition to the decision to exempt CBI from RTI Act, telling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh More


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