In these columns we have repeatedly been discussing about drug trafficking and abuse. Unfortunately, the menace continues unabated. Not a single day passes when the local media doesn’t report about...

Bangladesh is in mess. Massive protests are going on. More than hundred people have died during protests. Protest by students triggered following their governments decision to reserve 30 percent of...

The youth of Jammu and Kashmir are not only a disarrayed and disturbed lot but they are also exhausted in terms of their hope for a better future. And the...

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...

It is common place knowledge that adulteration of edibles has become a norm in Kashmir and the agencies vested with the job of taking action against the greedy businesses and...

On Tuesday, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a Patwari in Srinagar on the charges of demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 40,000 for issuance of revenue extracts. Such kind of...

Horticulture is one of the main business activities in Kashmir that helps the economy here. A vast majority of population is affiliated with this trade. The sector has witnessed some...

The youth of J&K, particularly from the Kashmir Valley, have been constantly on the receiving end. They have been exploited to the core costing them not only their livelihood but...

Almost all roads and streets in Srinagar city are ruled by stray dogs. The ever increasing population of stray dogs is not visible in Srinagar city alone but all over...

In Jammu and Kashmir the pollution caused by littering of polythene is becoming into a huge environmental disaster. Everywhere heaps and mounds of garbage, with bulk being of polythene waste,...