Plagued by apathy?

We as a people need to be more serious about our individual and collective lives

SOCIETY By Hashim Qureshi

Our society is not sensitive to writings based on facts. At the most the shortest response one is able to elicit from one’s readers is that it is a good article. We have read in books of history that in olden days, kings, rulers and administrative authorities would move about incognito at More
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PRESS FREEDOM DAY – MAY 3

Here you are. Away from your classroom, on the ground amid pulls, pressures and compulsions, narrates Altaf Khan

As we celebrate Press Freedom day I am reminded of my first day in the office and the journey since then. Not a bad day to start your career with, my debut in the field of journalism coincided with the day world debates press freedom. Learning on the first day was unlearning of those values which More
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B.Ed COLLEGES

These colleges open up new opportunities of education and employment, writes Muzaffar Ahmad

There are about two hundred private colleges in both the provinces of our state out of which nearly one hundred colleges are functional in Kashmir. All these colleges are properly affiliated with the University of Kashmir. Thank God, in the whole of India perhaps J&K is the only state where all More
  • Kashmir

Doctors under scanner for prenatal sex-determination

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, May 2: After the alarming drop in the sex ratio, several doctors have come under the scanner of the Government who are reportedly involved in prenatal sex-determination at private clinics.  More


  • Srinagar City

On Romana’s death anniversary, family appeals for speedy trial

When Jessica and Ruchika cases can get special attention why not of our daughter crushed to death by eve-teasers, asks family

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, May 2: It was on May 3, 2009 that Romana Javed’s parents saw her the last time when she left for tuitions because the same evening her dead body returned home. The 17-year-old was crushed to More



  • Briefs

DPS Srinagar to host Literature Festival for Children on May 7, 8

Srinagar, May 2: Delhi Public School Srinagar is holding a Festival of Children Literature in collaboration with Bookaroo Trust New Delhi in the school campus at Athwajan here on May 7 and 8. “It More


  • Business

Unending trouble for prepaid subscribers

SIMs deactivated for ‘fresh verification’

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, May 2:  The mobile service providing companies in Jammu and Kashmir are once again in news for wrong reasons. This time the SIM cards of hundreds of prepaid subscribers have been blocked More


  • News

Omar for monitoring of power projects

New Delhi, May 2: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, Monday reviewed the progress made by the McKinsey & Company in the process of monitoring of the projects being executed by the Power Development Department More


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