Leader or Crackpot

His mere sight invokes ridicule

COMMENT By Hassan Zainagiree

‘A mercurial and eccentric figure who suffers from severe phobia, enjoys flamenco dancing and horse racing, acts on whims and irritates friends and enemies alike…has an intense dislike or fear of staying on upper floors, and prefers not to fly over water’. That is how the 1969 Libyan Revolution leader More
Genocide’s Roots

On David Livingstone Smith’s book Less than human

Review By David Berreby

Consider, as Americans are so wont to do these days, the zombie. Once, he was a person, just like you or me, but then he changed. Now, despite his outward resemblance to a human being, he is a different thing altogether. He cannot disguise himself. He cannot change back. Another minus: He yearns to 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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