WOMANHOOD: Between Home and State

Humanization of intellect and emotions is perhaps the real and practicable solution in empowering this species, writes Naila Neelofar

Eigth of March creates a lot of hype about empowerment of woman and her changing roles in the society. However the need of the hour is that all such sensitive issues should be discussed and debated at regular intervals because the civil society needs to engage itself in a meaningful dialogue rather More
Exploitative Gender Construction

International Women’s Day

Invisible hands demand visibility and recognition on this special day, underlines Roshan Ara

“A bee is not honoured because she labours hard but because she labours for others,” says  St. John Chryston. What about a woman who always works for others?The future of the nation lies in hands of the women as they are architects of our future generations. Still consciously or unconsciously More
They call it HOSPITAL

EXPERIENCE

A fortnight at Lal Ded, and a lifetime of horror; Ishfaq Ahmad shares his observations he made during his stay in the Valley’s biggest maternity hospital

I have just left a place where reason and health cannot remain unimpaired. I am sure I am in possession of my exact and circumstantial memory to compile this write-up, however. Lala-Ded hospital, almost everyone in Kashmir knows it inside out, perchance the major maternity hospital of the valley, More
  • Kashmir

Govt comes clean on SKUAST-K faculty row

No question of shifting FOF: Mir

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Mar 7: The government Monday made it clear that it won’t shift the Faculty of Forestry of the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Kashmir (SKUAST-K) from the Chief More


  • Srinagar City

Koor Chih Noor: City speaks women empowerment

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Mar 7: Even as world observed International Women's Day (IWD), violence and discrimination against women remained a major concern at a function held in the City Monday. In an initiative for women More



  • Jammu

‘New administrative units under examination’

IN THE ASSEMBLY

Jammu, Mar 7: Minister for Rural Development has said creation of new administrative units in the State would be considered after receiving the recommendations of the Committee constituted by the Government More


  • News in Brief

Civil Services prelims on June 12

Srinagar: The Union Public Service Commission will hold the Civil Services (Preliminary) examination on June 12 for recruitment to the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police More


  • Business

Budget 2011-12 proposes `31,000 expenditure

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 7:  Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather today laid a Rs 31,212 crore budget in the Assembly. The FM said a total expenditure of Rs 31,212 crore projected for the next financial year More


  • News

Lawmaker changes loyalties 5 times in 5-years

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Mar 7: Change of loyalties on one or the other pretext by legislators is not an unusual thing in our land of the pure, but hardly anyone would have spotted a lawmaker resorting to this practice More


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