Understanding Valley’s Youth

Does the MHA study on Kashmiri youth make them more amenable to comprehension?

POINT OF VIEW BY RIYAZ AHMAD

The Union Home ministry’s study on Kashmiri youth has tried to make Kashmir comprehensible to the policy makers in New Delhi. Incidentally, the first ever study was conceived through 2010 just as Kashmir had tipped into five month-long turmoil. And here was the unrest that more than any before it More

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The Worth of Raising a Daughter

She is an asset that needs to be treasured

GENDER By Rehana Akhter

The reality of women’s lives remains invisible to men and women alike and this invisibility persists at all levels beginning with the family to the nation. Although geographically men and women share the same space, they live in different worlds. The mere fact that “Women hold up half the sky”- does More

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Administrative confusion

Let's all say `no' to favourtism

CONCERN By Fida Iqbal

 Recent observations of high level panel headed by Samuel Varghese, looking into discrepancies in KAS induction and promotion mechanism portrays a much distorted face of our administrative system and its vague human resource management within its cadres. The observations were incredibly shocking More

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Of human welfare

What is wrong with democracy

CONCERN By Mir Zubair Rashid

The Largest Hell in the World, Which gives Birth to War!!“Peace is our key to lifeWe need to stand up togetherWe must raise our hands with unityNot to raise hand in a mutiny.’’ What do the common masses want? Peace, law and order and bread. And yet opposite is happening, against More

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