The unending miseries
Just a day before a senior Pakistan minister said that his country will try to resume peace talks with India only after election results are out as it is useless to talk to New Delhi because no big decisions are expected from the present Indian government. The minister’s assertion was that time is not right […]
Show some seriousness
Now that the Jammu-Srinagar national highway has been causing lot of problems for the people of the Valley, it is the government’s lackadaisical attitude that is not helping the case of creating an alternative route to the NH44. The government had few years back initiated a proposal to construct a tunnel on the historic Mughal […]
Why can’t we have a better connectivity
Imagine being dependent on one road link for remaining connected to the rest of the world and that road link getting blocked for days together. And this happening over the years and years now, with no end in sight. The dependence on one road link for all the needs-be it transportation, travel and trade is […]
Valley remains cutoff
It was for the sixth straight day that the Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed leaving thousands of stranding passengers in Jammu as well as in Srinagar, besides shortage of essentials in the valley and Ladakh divisions. The bad condition of the road has made the job of making it motorable for authorities even more difficult as […]
Redressing the grievances
Redressing public grievances is high on the agenda of every government. Same stands true for the governor’s administration as well. That being the reason that every other day the government issues statements about the number of complaints received by various departmental heads and grievance sections set up by the government in various government departments. We […]
Enter Priyanka Gandhi
After much delay Priyanka Gandhi decided to join active politics creating ripples among the BJP circles as the state where the Gandhi scion will be making a debut matters for the right wing party. Priyanka, whose formal entry into politics has been a matter of speculation for several years, was given the charge of eastern […]
The pathetic public transport system
The public transport system in the state of Jammu and Kashmir is the worst. Not only are the approved vehicles unfit for public use but the way they have been maintained and are being allowed to run is simply pitiable. What has worsened the situation is the callous attitude adopted by the government on this […]
The EVM tampering
The Electronic Voting Machines (EVM’s) have been making news much ahead of the scheduled parliamentary polls. A claim by an IT expert, that the machines were manipulated during the 2014 general elections has raised a storm. Though the Election Commission of India took a strong note of the claim termed it as ‘motivated slugfest’, it […]
Revamp of the healthcare
What happened at LallaDed hospital last week is condemnable. And we as a nation left no stone unturned to condemn the incident. From mainstream politicians to separatists, human rights activists, Journalists, social activists and even doctors besides all others joined the condemnation bandwagon, and rightly so. But while we offer our condemnation and mock at […]
Lacking on women’s empowerment
The conflict and the societal pressures have ensured a lesser working space for the fairer sex in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Though empowerment of women is a worldwide slogan and one of the Millennium Development Goals, Jammu and Kashmir has failed on this front. Though lot is being said about empowering of women […]