Kashmir Kick

With little reaction from the Valley street, Syed Yousuf’s death became little more than a dramatic media event

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

It was a terrible week for Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. National Conference worker Syed Yousuf’s alleged custodial death plunged his government into its worst ever crisis. Worse than even the successive streets tumults over the past two years of his rule that claimed over 150 young lives. For a while More

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No plagiarism please

How hard the checks, they plagiaries it anyhow

UNETHICAL PRACTICE By Souzeina Mushtaq

Skimming through the pages of my department’s journal, I stumbled upon a story about some social issue, written by a senior journalist colleague. A glance at it gave me a sense of déjà vu- some two years back I had written the same story for one of the leading local dailies where I worked. And the More

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The Saffron Mission

A vibrant policy is changing the situation on the ground

AGRICULTURE By Maqsood Ahmed Wani

In line with the National Policy to improve the growth rate in the Rural Sector and improve infrastructure facilities both in the Public and Private Sectors, augmenting irrigation by way of creating facilities for utilization of ground water potential, encourage inflow of modern technological advances More

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Remembering Qayoom Bakshi

We have lost an affectionate friend

TRIBUTE By Dr. A Wahid

If with every passing day I feel the absence of Qayoom with greater intensity, then this person must have been of a special importance to me. He was definitely a person with great social contributions who died two months back after fighting a dreadful hepatic malignancy. Qayoom was not a politician More

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