Empowered Panchayats
The government’s much-awaited move to empower Panchayats in the state is a move of watershed significance. This step comes after years of soft pedaling, and skepticism suggesting there was a deep-seated aversion to empowering Panchayats in the state. All that is history. With this step, governance in More
  • Kashmir

Where are Police Complaint Authorities?

SC called for establishment of bodies to deal with misconduct by officers

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, Sep 23: Jammu and Kashmir Government is yet to comply with a Supreme Court directive on establishment of Police Complaint Authorities at different levels to probe the cases of misconduct by police More


  • Srinagar City

Wusi Sahib-Aali Kadal road in shambles

Macadamization project left halfway, R&B says locals hindered work progress

ADIL BASHIR

Srinagar, Sep 23: In July this year, the Roads and Building department started macadamization of Bulbul Lankar-Aali Kadal-Nawa Kadal road stretch to improve connectivity in the densely populated Shahr More



  • Jammu

JK Assembly has no power to pass Guru resolution: MLA

Jammu, Sep 23: Arguing that Jammu and Kashmir Assembly does not have power to debate and pass a resolution seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, an MLA, suspended by the BJP, today More


  • South Asia

Pak-US war of words escalates over ISI's Haqqani network link

REZAUL H LASKAR

Islamabad, Sep 23: Rattled by US' assertion that ISI was acting in tandem with the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Pakistan's civil and military leadership today collectively hit back at Washington, contending More


  • World

DID EINSTEIN GET IT WRONG?

D RAVI KANTH/PTI

Geneva, Sep 23: Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of relativity is one of the most fundamental pillars of physics – but now scientists say his conclusion that nothing can travel faster than light could be More


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