Haji Anayat chairs BAC meeting; LC issues revises calendar
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 05: Chairman, Legislative Council, Haji Anayat Ali today chaired the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting and ordered rescheduling of the House business for the remaining days of the current session. It was decided that discussion on working of the Ministry, scheduled for 6 February 2018, would be now taken up on 8 February […]
Contractor playing truant on New Ganderbal HEP: Naqash
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 05: Minister of State for Power, Asiea Naqash today informed the Legislative Assembly that the government is exploring the options for execution of 93 MW New Ganderbal Hydroelectric Project after the successful bidder failed to meet the formalities. “The project was appraised by Central Environment Authority (CEA) in November-2012 and put to tender […]
Govt not paying adequate compensation to farmers for land: Tarigami
Jammu, Feb 05: Criticizing the government for paying a meagre amount as compensation to the farmers for their land acquired by it for various purposes, CPI (M) leader and MLA Kulgam Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami Monday urged the authorities to pay the suitable compensation to those whose land has been or is to be acquired. “Acquisition […]
Children our greatest asset: Prof Mattoo
Stresses on creating the edifice of a competitive education system
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 05: Describing children as any nation’s greatest asset, Advisor to the Chief Minister, Prof. Amitabh Matoo, today flagged improving the quality of education in State-run schools as the most important intervention to be made in the education system of the state. He said no education system can thrive anywhere in the world unless […]
What schools should also teach
Zehra Kamal Alam THE Zainab rape-murder case in Kasur has jolted the nation into thinking seriously about a highly prevalent but hushed-up issue. There is an increased sense of urgency and greater receptivity among parents, teachers and adult caregivers to the idea of providing children with information that can help to protect them from potentially […]
If that door should shut now
India cannot be so opaque to history as to say no refugees will hereafter be allowed to enter its territory
Tushar Mehta Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta has made an important statement before the Supreme Court (“India can’t be refugee capital: govt.”, The Hindu, February 1, 2018). Whether he intended it to or not, it contains a vision, a vision of India. Mr. Mehta presented that vision in terms of what India should not be. […]
Utter carelessness
The humankind’s burgeoning understanding about the biological sciences along with their co-relation with other spheres of physics and allied sciences have altered the landscape of human perceptions so drastically that one is forced to think in terms of issues and challenges which were no concern for us, may be only a few decades back. Today […]
Will 2018 be the year of return to Syria?
Jan Egeland Today, in government buildings across Europe and the Middle East, officials debate policies that would return millions of Syrian refugees to their war-ravaged land. Displaced families sit in refugee tents weighing up the risk of returning home, too; the burden weighing heavier on their shoulders. Government officials would be unwise to make hasty […]
