Where have they gone?

Searching Missing Girls in Jammu and Kashmir

ALARMING TREND By Bashir Ahmad Bhat

A number of write-ups have appeared in various local dailies regarding the shocking sex ratio figures in Jammu and Kashmir after the release of the provisional population figures of Census-2011. The preliminary figures related to drastic decline in sex ratio in general and the child sex ratio in particular More
Preserving Kashmiri language

BOOK REVIEW

Iqbal Ahmad reviews Late Syed Rasool Pompur’s book Kaashur Imla Tu Amyuk Irtiqa

Kashmiri language is extremely rich. But the problem of poor readership is making it difficult for people to understand the Kashmiri literature in its real perspective. Unfortunately the treasure of knowledge and information written in Kashmiri does not reach the people. In fact it is not the fault More
Fictionalizing the Facts

NARRATIVES

Let's tell our story the way it has actually happened, writes Fayaz Bhat

Documenting facts needs courage. It can’t be done behind the scene. We have to be brave enough to say what we see.  Conflict is all about happenings. This is the real world of killings, disappearances, emotional imbalances. Those who die are having a long sleep. Those who remain have data, theory More
  • Kashmir

Omar inspects Srinagar-Leh Highway status

Drives up to Gumri, interacts with people

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, May 11: The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, on Wednesday drove up to Gumri, 114 kms from here, to inspect the progress of upgradation and widening of Srinagar-Leh highway project being executed More


  • Srinagar City

Jhelum gets cruise ride to interiors

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, May 11: In a bid to revive decades old river transport in Srinagar City, the government Wednesday started a 15-seater cruise in Jehlum which would pass through interiors of the summer capital More



  • Jammu

Cabinet meeting today

Jammu, May 11: Jammu and Kashmir Council of Ministers is meeting at Srinagar on Thursday afternoon, official sources said on Wednesday.  They said the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah would chair the More


  • Briefs

Community mobilization programme held

Srinagar: The Zonal Education Office, Eidgah here organised a community mobilization programme at Girls Higher Secondary, Goripora and Middle School Bakkshpora respectively.  The Chief Education More


  • Business

SKICC clocks `2 cr revenue in '10-11

GK BUSINESS REPORTER

Srinagar, May 11: The state-of-the-art Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) on the Dal banks here has registered record gross revenue of Rs 203.67 lakhs for 2010-11. The SKICC which More


  • News

Sharif demands independent probe into Osama debacle

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, May 11: Pakistan's main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif today demanded that the government should form a judicial commission within three days to ascertain how al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden More


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