Jammed with tourists

Do we know what does that mean?

WORDS WITHIN By Firdous Syed

The noose is slowly but surely tightening. Over a period of time the long rope of ever-growing tourism is bound to hang Kashmir to a painful death. It is not out of any anti-development agenda (which the market economic forces invariably try to label, in order to silence the critics of indiscriminate More
The story of a stadium

State Money Plundered by the Ruling Party

HOPE By Junaid Azim Mattu

This column is about a reality that, as Mark Twain would put it, might seem stranger than fiction. This is a real-life story about how a certain elected functionary of the ruling party has blatantly dared to waste public money and resources to apparently benefit his own kith and kin. Since years, More
Challenges of Higher Education

Problem are identified, where lies the solution?

ISSUE By Dr. Farooq Ahmad Peer

This is in response to the emails and reactions which I received immediately after my write up “Prospect of Higher Education” got published in this esteemed paper. My friends and readers had expressed the view that I had highlighted only the problems of Higher Education in my write up and had not More
Traffic terror

The solution is possible

CONCERN By Shahnawaz Ahmad

This piece I dedicate to my colleague  Assadulah Hakim who died in a traffic accident at Awantipora on 09-01-2012 while coming to attend his duties in chilly winters. He was a temporary worker since  last seventeen years, waiting for his permanent order till he went to the permanent home More
  • Kashmir

Mirwaiz ‘supported’ by ISI, claims US Attorney

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Washington, Mar 30: A US attorney has claimed that Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is "supported and controlled" by ISI The Attorney Neil H MacBride made the claim before the More


  • Srinagar City

Comment Pay for visit to Tulip Garden, GET DOG SIGHT FREE

M HYDERI

BARELY a day after Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah and his mother Molly Abdullah threw open the famed Tulip Garden where the entry comes at presumably costly Rs 50 per head for breathtaking view of the delicate More



  • Jammu

Ministers spend Rs 169.81 lakh on tours in 2 years

Official Records Reveal CM Has Not Visited Any Constituency In 2010-11

AKSHAY AZAD

 Jammu, Mar 30: The government records reveal the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has not visited any constituency of the state during the year (2010-11), while other ministers have expended Rs 169.81 More


  • South Asia

Afghan policeman kills 9 colleagues, joins Taliban

PRESS TRUET OF INDIA

Kabul, Mar 30: An Afghan policeman today shot dead nine of his colleagues, including his brother, as they slept and fled with their weapons in a truck to join Taliban ranks in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika More


  • World

US court sentences Dr Fai to 2 years in jail

‘He can continue to work for cause of Kashmiri people from prison’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Washington, Mar 30: A US court on Friday sentenced Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai to two years in jail on charges of illegally working for Pakistani spy agency ISI to influence American policy on Kashmir.Fai, 62,& More


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