American role, filthier than Dal!

(David Mulford’s cable of 2006 to Washington calling politics in Kashmir as filthy as Dal is like Cervantes saying in Don Quixote, “Avant, black-browes'” which phrase we know as “pot calling the kettle black!”

M.Ashraf

There are no two opinions that the politics in Kashmir over past sometime has became very murky and is definitely as filthy as the Dal Lake. In literal sense, the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing and the vested interests are having a field day! Corruption is at its peak and as More
Mahatma Gandhi and Kashmir Politics

Could Gandhi have foreseen the ensuing tragedy and misery of Kashmiris

Abdul Majid Zargar

Gandhi Jyanti falls on 2nd of October. It is on this date that Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi- an apostle of peace and non-violence - was born. Rich and befitting tributes will be showered on him for what he contributed to free his nation from the colonial yoke.While Gandhi was a messiah of  More
Useless Money

The history of paper money began with a scandal.

FINANACE By Boris Kagarlitsky

When Scottish financier John Law proposed in the early 18th century that French Regent Philippe d’Orleans replace gold coins with paper money, everyone was thrilled by the idea. This gave the French Treasury the ability to stock and control the supply of precious metals. Everything was going fine More
  • Kashmir

SKIMS to get geriatric centre: Azad

GK MONITORING DESK

Srinagar, Oct 1: The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Saturday announced setting up of Regional Geriatric Centre at Sher-e- Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura More


  • Srinagar City

INT’L SCHOOL KASHMIR FORAYS INTO CITY

SCHOOLING BEYOND BLACKBOARD

ARIF SHAFI WANI

WHEN Satria Farah Amina Candoa, an educationist from Philippines visited Kashmir in 2004, she was “shocked to see children huddled in classrooms of pre-schools and given lectures like high school students More



  • Jammu

Highway jam disrupts traffic Commuters Blame Traffic Police

Batote, Oct 1: Commuters on Srinagar-Jammu highway had a harrowing time on Saturday after thousands of vehicles got caught in chronic traffic jam between Patnitop and Batote stretch. Though the main More


  • South Asia

Salman Taseer's assassin gets death sentence

Islamabad, Oct 1: The bodyguard who gunned down Punjab governor Salman Taseer in January this year was found guilty and sentenced to death Saturday by a Pakistani court, a media report said. The sentence More


  • World

Awlaki's death major blow to al-Qaeda: Obama

Washington, Oct 1: Describing the death of al-Qaeda's top spiritual leader Anwar al-Awlaki as a "major blow" to the group, US President Barack Obama has said that it marks another significant milestone More


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