LIBYA: From Legend To Psycho

Muammar Ghaddafi’s unique Afro-Arab living style and closed border policy hardly gave a chance to look deep into his forty one year rule

WORLD By Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor

It was my childhood dream to visit the land of the ‘lion of the desert’ in Libya where the legendary hero of Guerrilla warfare, Omar Mukhtar was born. He fought for twenty years against the colonial power, Italy, which sentenced him to death for challenging the colonial authority. Mukhtar became inspiration More
Two Novels, Two Narrations

WRITINGS

Ashiq Hussain Bhat compares Garden of Solitude with Close Call to Kashmir

Two Novels, ‘Close Call in Kashmir’ and ‘The Garden of Solitude’ appeared in quick succession, one in 2010 followed by another in 2011. Together these books signify an important milestone in the field of English fiction about Kashmir by Kashmiris. The authors of both, besides being Kashmiri, are Pandits More
Talking Kashmir

VIEWS

Tarigami has made some valid points about how change can visit Kashmir, feels Hilal Ahmad Najar

Some weeks back Mr. Tarigami presented a paper in a Kashmir conference organized by centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR) at New Delhi. Tarigami has not only welcomed the decisions regarding the renewed dialogue but considered it an important initiative in itself. It is not always that Ministers More
  • Kashmir

KU cracks whip on Pvt B.Ed Colleges

Surprise inspections on to ensure quality control, adherence to rules

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Mar 6: In a bid to ensure quality control in Private B.Ed Colleges in Kashmir, which are allegedly violating admission and other academic norms, the University of Kashmir has decided to launch More


  • Srinagar City

Shahr-e-Khaas silently losing ‘window of life’

FROM LIVING HERITAGE TO CALENDARS

ARIF SHAFI WANI

THE boom of constructing modern day glazed buildings and houses is not only gradually consuming heritage structures in the Old Srinagar City but also the traditional windows, which stand witness to its More



  • Jammu

PROF PUNJABI HONOURED

`Bridge gap to restore trust among KPs, Muslims’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 6: Gandhi Memorial College of Education Jammu (GMCEJ) has felicitated the Kashmir University vice-chancellor, Prof Riyaz Punjabi on being conferred with Padam Shree by the Government of India More


  • Briefs

Function today

Srinagar, Mar 6: Koor Chih Noor, a program on women empowerment organised by Space Communicationswill be held at SKICC at 1:30 PM today. People from different walks of life are scheduled to participate More


  • Business

'1/5th population in JK below poverty line'

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Mar 6: About one fifth of the population in J&K falls in Below Poverty Line (BPL) category, with about 98 per cent among them living in the rural areas, says the Economic Survey.  The ES More


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