India’s response to Qureshi-Mirwaiztele-talk has worsened ties: Mehbooba
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Thursday said India’s response to telephonic conversation between Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah MehmoodQureshi and separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has reduced the ties between the two countries to the lowest level. “Terming a phone call between Pakistani FM &Mirwaiz Umar Farooqsahab as anti-India has reduced ties to an unbelievable nadir,” […]
BJP has bigger plans, says next J&K CM will be from our party
Jammu: The next chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir will be from the BJP as the party will come to power on its own in the state, state in-charge of the saffron party RavinderRaina said Thursday. Addressing a series of meetings ahead of Prime Minister NarendraModi’s February 3 rally at Vijaypur in Jammu, the BharatiyaJanata […]
On Sunday, PM Modi will inaugurate north Kashmir’s first BPO
Jammu: Prime Minister NarendraModi will inaugurate first ever business process outsourcing (BPO) unit in northern Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Sunday. The prime minister will visit to all three regions of Jammu and Kashmir on February 3 to lay foundation stones for host of projects. “(The) Prime Minister will be inaugurating BPO in Bandipora on February […]
PM’s visit: JRL calls for shutdown on Sunday
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) on Thursday appealed people to observe a complete shutdown on Sunday to protest against the JK visit of Prime Minister NarendraModi on the day, saying that arrival of a person who ordered killings and maiming of Kashmiris cannot be “an occasion of joy for us as it only deserves our […]
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 […]
Don’t let Ram temple issue go the Kashmir way: Shiv Sena
Mumbai: Pitching for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the Shiv Sena on Thursday said the issue should not become as complicated as the Kashmir matter, which is still awaiting resolution. It also wondered why RashtriyaSwayamsevakSangh (RSS) leaders were not holding the prime minister and other BJP leaders accountable for the delay in temple […]
Winter ills
Winter in Kashmir is fading as the 40-day-long Chilai-Kalan, the harshest period ends today with MeT officials here saying that this year’s Chilai-Kalan was harshest-ever in a span of 12 years. Chilai-Kalan begins annually on December 21 and the average minimum temperatures during this season’s Chilai-Kalan plummeted to minus 6.4 degree Celsius. In 2007, the […]
Bureaucracy verses Judiciary
By Hakim Mohammad Ilyas The State Judiciary administers a common law system of legal jurisdiction, in which customs, precedents and legislation, all codify the law of the land. The judiciary interprets the Constitution as its final arbiter. It is its duty as mandated by the Constitution, to be its watchdog, by calling for scrutiny of […]
Early preparation is the key to get a success in CLAT 2019
By Amandeep Rajgotra For a very long time, both Law and Management courses have got huge popularity. The reason which makes them a favorite choice for students is primarily that the courses are neutral to all the streams either engineering or humanities. Secondly, they have huge scope in terms of career and respect in the […]
Will Congress gain with Priyanka’s entry?
By Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit Priyanka Gandhi, a scion of India’s most famous political dynasty has formally entered politics ahead of a looming national election, joining the opposition campaign in a crucial state where the party her family founded hopes to unseat Prime Minister NarendraModi. Her appointment has come at a time when the party has […]
