Govt to invest hugely on improving border infrastructure, police modernization
MHA gets Rs 1.03 lakh crore for the project
New Delhi: For the first time, budgetary provisions for the Home Ministry has crossed the Rs 1-lakh crore mark and is pegged at over Rs 1,03,000 crore for the next fiscal, with special emphasis on improving border infrastructure of police forces. The ministry has got Rs 1,03,927crore for 2019-20 which is 4.9 per cent more […]
Kashmir story can’t be told through HR reports, Journalistic accounts: Arundhati Roy
New Delhi: The 1997 Booker Prize-winner, Arundhati Roy who is equally at ease writing scathing essays, says she is a “disciplined writer” whose heart lies in fiction as it is a “connective tissue” between many things which are sometimes looked at or studied in isolation. A major part of Roy’s second novel is set in […]
Mother dead, father ‘missing’, year-old baby girl longing for parental love
Pulwama: With father likely to have joined the militant ranks and mother already dead, a year-old baby girl has been left on mercy of Almighty and her relatives in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Aiysha, a year-old daughter of Imran Ahmad Bhat of Arihal village in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district doesn’t know anything about her parents. […]
No new private school to come up until fee structure not approved
Srinagar: The J&K government has put a rider on the opening of the new private schools as it has stated that no private schools will be allowed to start with a proposed fee structure of more than Rs 1000 per month and Rs 6000 as annual charges. The order in this regard has been issued […]
Resisting change: Even a new roadmap fails to generate betterment in school education
Srinagar: The much hyped new road map devised for the J&K state’s school education department has miserably failed to bring a change in the ailing education sector of the state. The new roadmap for school education department was devised by the union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD in 2017 to revamp the education sector […]
Journalists protest police ‘highhandedness’
Stage protest after some scribes were ‘disallowed' to enter R-Day parade venue
Srinagar: Journalists here Saturday staged a protest against Jammu and Kashmir government and police after several scribes were allegedly not allowed to enter the venue of Republic Day function despite possessing valid accreditation passes. However, Governor’s advisor K Vijay Kumar said in Jammu that the issue of some journalists not being permitted to cover the […]
Family questions media over comparing their IPS, militant sons
Say ‘atrocities of forces compelled Shams to pick up arms’
Shopian: The educated youth like Dr. Shams-ul-HaqMengnoo choose armed struggle only due to the atrocities of forces, said slain militant’s relatives at Sugan where thousands of mourners continue to throng his residence. Shams-ul-Mengnoo, a resident of Sugan village of Shopian district who was pursuing Bachelors Degree in Unani Medicine and Surgery from a Government College […]
Siachen: The Untold story described in Nat Geo documentary
New Delhi: How do soldiers survive at minus 50 degrees Celsius in Siachen and glacier captains carry out evacuation flying over relentless ice-fields in the world’s highest battlefield? These and few other lesser-known stories of the Indian Air Force’s operations in the toughest climatic conditions in the country will be unveiled through a special documentary […]
Militant recruitment in these villages witnessed after two decades
Twin back to back encounters left all three militants dead
Pulwama/Shopian: The three villages in twin districts of South Kashmir witnessed no militant recruitment from past two decades. However, after a lapse of nearly 25 years, one each from LassiporaPulwama, Chiddipora and Shirmal villages of Shopian joined the militant ranks. The youth from the villages who had joined militant ranks were killed in separate encounters […]
‘Over worked’ doctors write to govt, seek eased work conditions
Srinagar: Doctors in Kashmir have been working on extended, enormous shifts for long now. The issue seems, has not been taken seriously by the government as well as the same has not been addressed so far. While the Lalla Ded incident has generated debate on various fronts, with government issuing guidelines in regard to the […]
