Low cost air connectivity
The Jammu-Srinagar national highway is giving all sorts of troubles to the commuters especially during winters. This winter the highway has witnessed numerous closures for days together making it difficult for people to travel. After the road caved in at Kela Morh in Ramban the highway is still being not fully used for traffic and […]
Change is inevitable, but difficult
Abid Hussain Rather The avouchment acclaimed by motivational personalities that their speeches, books or videos can bring changes in your life might be true but the zealousness and propulsion in their acclamation are exaggerations rather than truth. Substantially, the reality is that such things are not often possible in our life. Naturally, it is human […]
Letter to the Editor
Reopening of screens It is welcome to note that the Union Government has issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on preventive measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 for cinema halls and theatres. The SOP clarifies that all COVID-related safety standards must be continued inside the premises. The General Guidelines specify that respiratory etiquettes must […]
Public healthcare under MCD in peril
Dr Vinay Aggarwal Too many Cooks spoil the Broth. This saying aptly fits Delhi’s healthcare system. It is highly heterogeneous with multiple stake holders. Though Health is a state subject, Delhi’s healthcare is provided by Central government, State government, ESI, Railways, NDMC, MCD, Cantonment board, Delhi Univ. etc from the government sector alone. Besides these […]
Covid-19: Only for the poor
Fahid Fayaz Darangay Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General rightly said, ‘COVID-19 has been likened to an x-ray, revealing fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies we have built. It is exposing fallacies and falsehoods everywhere: The lie that free markets can deliver healthcare for all; The fiction that unpaid care work is not work; […]
Pesky power cuts haunt Shopian residents
Pulwama: Unscheduled power cuts in different areas of south Kashmir’s Shopian district is giving a tough time to the residents who have sought relief from the breakdown during the bone chilling cold conditions. Locals also expressed strong resentment against the PDD department for failing to provide scheduled power supply to the dozens villages spread across […]
Pakistani women demand repatriation
Srinagar: Pakistani women married to former Kashmiri militants, who had arrived in Valley under government’s rehabilitation policy in 2010, Monday once again staged protest in Kashmir capital Srinagar. Holding placards, and raising slogans these women asked Government of India to either provide them citizenship rights or deport them back to Pakistan. The protesting women along […]
Couple arrested for blackmailing men
Uri: Police in north Kashmir’s Uri arrested a couple for black-mailing and threatening men to implicate them in false sexual harassment cases. Station House Officer Uri, Muhammad Ashraf Pal said that a shop keeper from Lagama village had filed a complaint claiming that a woman is black-mailing him and demanding Rs 40,000. The shopkeeper, a […]
