Say no to drugs
It is encouraging to notice that the drug abuse and drug trafficking has finally caught the attention of the people here and hopefully would help to do away with the menace that is playing havoc with peoples’ lives particularly those of the young generation. Watching daily reportage of Kashmir based local dailies, regarding drug abuse […]
Amid pandemic, children need special attention
The pandemic has claimed nearly four million lives world over and has destroyed the economy of individuals as well as States. It has changed the entire life pattern and forced people to accept a new way of living, a way that is not much comforting or likeable. Humans are known as social animals but the […]
Delaying execution of schemes
Jammu and Kashmir has all along been victim of poor and pathetic work culture as for as the government functioning is concerned and this has cost the erstwhile state dearly. This attitude of the officials and the government departments has resulted into unnecessary delays in completion of various projects, escalation of projected costs and in […]
CORRECTION
There has been statistical error in today’s editorial titled “Addressing the issue of unemployment”. Please read national average unemployment rate as 11.90% instead of 13.8% and J & K average as 12.1% instead of 25. The error due to typo is regretted. EDITORIALthekashmirimages.com
Addressing the issue of joblessness
Unemployment is the biggest challenge that the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is face to face with. The situation on the front further worsened post August 2019 as the life came to a standstill and all sectors got impacted. Whatever hope was left vanished as Covid-19 gripped the entire world. People lost jobs and […]
Help effected sectors
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has rolled out its Special Assistance Scheme for COVID Mortalities (SASCM) to help out families affected by the coronavirus in the union territory. The scheme was formally rolled out by the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha formally on Wednesday by handing over the grant of scholarship and pension certificates to the […]
Ugly face of violence
Killing of a Special Police Officer (SPO), his wife and daughter in a Tral village is the worst example of the ugliness of terrorism and can’t be justified by any kind of whataboutery. It was and will remain a gruesome rime against the basic principles of the humanity. Those who indulged in this barbaric act […]
Activate Municipalities and Panchayats
After the successful completion of civic body polls, people have without fail been treated to the claims that government has strengthened the Panchayati Raj Institutions. Theoretically speaking, the claim is true. But the practical reality is that the people who have been elected by the general public to take care of their civic needs are […]
Beyond rhetoric …
Sigmund Freud has long back talked about people’s urge and need for looking for familiarity, and how easy it is for them to expect only the familiar outcomes even in case of entirely different situations and circumstance. Human cognitive behavior is such that it is, as if, resistant to looking beyond the relational schemas for […]
Meaningless rhetoric!
For the past couple of years now, ordinary people here are being bombarded with huge financial figures. A standard catch-line accompanying these whooping sums informs them that this money is and will be used for their betterment, progress and development. Although there is nothing unique about such pronouncements, however, what is new is the increased […]
