Governor N N Vohra was informed Saturday (Jul 21) that around 18 lakh Kanals of state land are under the encroachments throughout the state. In a high-level meeting, Financial Commissioner,...

If the devastating ethnography of the raw realities of life and history in Jammu and Kashmir are looked into, it goes without saying that the most vital chunk of the...

It goes without saying that the successive governments in Jammu and Kashmir have been face to face with a severe social and economic decline here. In post-2002 Jammu and Kashmir,...

Jammu and Kashmir has been lavishly bestowed with a wealth of resources by nature, which if exploited judiciously and scientifically could unburden people from seemingly unavoidable dependence on neighbouring states...

Government and its various agencies have to ensure semblance of law everywhere within the territorial parameters of the state. Besides the big political and developmental issues, even everything mundane, if...

Kashmir’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) Swayam Prakash Pani Sunday called for “people-friendly” policing.  Addressing a gathering of policemen and officials at District Police Lines, Handwara, Pani stressed on the...

Protesting against any genuine issue is ok, but it must be said that nobody is allowed to agitate and protest lack of certain rights and liberties of some people by...

That rampant corruption is the main cause of concern and major irritant for the common masses here is known to all. But thus far besides the verbal assurances about ridding...

That there is wanton loot and plunder of the state’s forest wealth is common knowledge – so much so that every inhabitant of this God-forsaken lad is aware of it....

Kashmir is really a gold mine, and everybody is busy milking the society and its systems to the best possible advantage and that too without any hassles. Although like elsewhere...