RIDING TO DEATH

The recent spate of deaths of young bikers should make us introspect

Sameer Rashid Bhat

It was a dark gloomy Tuesday morning. The sun had just popped out to spread its warm rays all around. We were queuing up for the morning assembly and subsequent prayers in the lawn of our school. The lawn was abuzz with the muttering and murmuring of the uniformly dressed 'future of society'. A friend More
‘Consensus’ on mess

India’s growth is sinking

Sajjad Bazaz

For the past few months, India is hitting international headlines not for good reasons, but for the economic mess. Now India is gearing up for presidential polls and currently the whole process is in a mess.  This means aggravating the mess by way of political mess and resulting in mis-governance More
Employees’ strike

Common man suffers, system becomes defunct

Javaid Malik

Employees are on warpath again. They have stuck to their decision to carry on with the strike and protests. They claim that state government has ditched them as it has not enhanced the retirement age from 58-yrs to 60-yrs despite it entering into an agreement with them. The employees’ unions are calling More
Translating the Saint

It is a wonderful work f translation

Dr. Farooq Ahmad Peer

Book: Kashmir Bliss (Selected Poetry of Nund Rishi) Author:  Badruddin MuqeemPublisher :   Gulshan Books, Srinagar  Kashmir.   Price:      Rs.  725Nund Rishi (Sheikh Nuruddin RA) was born on 10th of Zilhajj More
  • Kashmir

No rift in Hurriyat (M): Mirwaiz

Calls For Early Resolution Of Kashmir

Budgam, June 15: Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq Friday said there is no rift in the amalgam. Addressing a public gathering at Imam Bara Chowk here, Mirwaiz said that “there can More


  • Srinagar City

CHASED BY DOGS, HIT BY TIPPER

Teenage girl feared to lose leg

M HYDERI

Srinagar, June 15: She tries to speak but cries in pain. 17-year-old Shabab Zehra of Shamaswari Safa Kadal is bedridden at Bone and Joint Hospital Barzulla. For this schoolgirl, Srinagar’s two main fear More



  • Jammu

HC raps Govt over slow tax realization

Directs CS to file details

Jammu, June 15: A Division Bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court today rapped the state government for its “failure and inefficiency” to recover commercial and sales tax from the defaulters from across More


  • South Asia

Took up trade to transform ties with India: Gilani

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Islamabad, June 15: Pakistan's current administration took up the issue of normalising trade with India, which previous governments had been unwilling to touch, as part of measures to transform ties between More


  • Budgam

Toilet blocks near Charar-e-Sharief shrine defunct for 10 years

Devotees face difficulties

Charar-e-Sharief (Budgam): Devotees visiting the famous shrine of Sheikh Noorudin Wali (RA) here in central Kashmir are facing immense problems as the main toilet block comprising at least ten toilets More


  • Education and Career

Autonomy of IITs will remain intact, says PM

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 15: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today gave an assurance that the autonomy of IITs will be maintained, a federation opposing the proposed common entrance to these institutes said after More


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