‘Inconsistency’ we paid for

and we continue to pay for it even now

Z.G. Muhammad

Thank you Sheikh Nazir Ahmed. Thanks for your January 7, 2013 address to the National Conference workers refreshing their memory and reminding them of November 18, 1947, when outside the Palladium cinema hundreds of them had gathered to greet first Prime Minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru More

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Follow a ‘Line of Caution’

With Pakistan, that will be the right course of action

Raj Chengappa

Barely a year and a half ago, the Pakistan Army flew me down by helicopter to visit the Line of Control at Chakothi in Pakistan Administered  Kashmir (PAK). Bright blue highway signs indicated that Uri was just 11 km away and Srinagar 121 km. We stood at Aman Setu, the bridge that was opened More

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Commitment personified

Prof. Muhammud Afaq was not just a teacher but a role model for science education

Prof. M. A. Qurishi

I have the privilege to be the student, and later a colleague of Prof. Muhammud Afaq who passed away at the age of 72 years after a brief illness on 9th of January-2013 at his native place, Fatehpur, U.P. Prof. Afaq has been one of the founding faculty members of the department of Chemistry, University More

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Of employees and employed

Hope this year comes with a good news for state employees

G. N. Wadoo

 Hope the State Government wakes up for the redressal of decades old grievances of the State employees with the start of the year 2013 and also for filling up the vacancies in the various cadres of the government departments. They are committed to remove the fast growing unemployment in the State More

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• Kashmir

• Srinagar City

• Jammu

• South Asia

• World