Dog menace, Rabies and Preventive measures

THE DOG DEBATE

Dr Sheikh M Ashraf writes about the issue that has caused panic among the people of Kashmir

Rabies is a uniformly fatal disease having cosmopolitan distribution except Antarctica. Approximately 50,000 cases of human rabies occur across the globe each year. Historically, dogs were the primary reservoir and vector for rabies, and they remain the major source of transmission to humans in Asia More
Do they really count?

YOUTH AFFAIRS

For Kashmiri youth, a widely publicized “International Year of Youth” could not prove any different. Like earlier, they continued to be exploited in the year 2010 as well, writes Muhammad Yusuf

The year 2010 was declared as International Year of Youth by United Nations Organization (UNO) at its General Assembly, held in August last year in an effort to harness the energy and imagination of the world’s young denizens in overcoming the challenges facing the world today. It was felt More
Quality Concerns in Higher Education

ACADEMICS

Fayaz Ahmad Mir writes about the standard of education in Kashmir colleges, with special reference to quality control

Quality is a relative term in itself and Total Quality Management (TQM) is a misnomer. Although education is a quality in itself, however dimensions (or benchmarks) have been set from time to time. Thanks to the National Assessment and Accreditation Council which has qualified the term quality.
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  • Kashmir

Separatists welcome AI report

Report eyeopener for world: Saghar

Srinagar, Mar 22: Separatists have hailed the Amnesty International report calling for an end to arbitrary arrest revocation of Public Safety Act.  Appreciating Amnesty’s report, APHC-M Pak chapter More


  • Srinagar City

DOG SCARE SPILLS OVER TO NOWHATTA

CHILDREN, OTHERS BITTEN NEAR JAMIA MASJID

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Mar 22: With the government reluctant to eliminate stray dogs whose population has assumed alarming proportions, the canine attacks seem to have furthered in the City as in the latest over a More



  • Jammu

3 SSPs having cases against them got gallantry awards

Jammu, Mar 22: Eleven policemen including three Senior Superintendents of Police who were conferred the President Medal for Gallantry Award have civil and criminal cases against them in the state, said More


  • News in Brief

Govt creates 321 posts of specialist docs

Jammu, Mar 22: Jammu and Kashmir government today said that provisions have been made for 321 posts of specialist doctors to provide better medical facilities to people of the state. Replying to a More


  • Business

JK Bank, JCB India ink pact

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 22: With a view to translate J&K’s quest for infrastructural boom into reality, J&K Bank signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with JCB India Ltd, a leading infrastructure equipment More


  • News

PML-N warns Govt about ‘unrest’ in PaK

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Mar 22: The Pakistan Muslim  League Nawaz on Tuesday reiterated its warning to the Federal government about “unrest and law and order problem” in Pakistan administered Kashmir if the More


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