EDITORIAL

Focus on what’s achievable

Focus on what’s achievable

When Centre announced its decision of scraping Article 370 to end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and split the state into two union territories, it was reasoned that the decision was necessitated by the lack of progress and development in the erstwhile state. People were subsequently lured into believing that under the new […]

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AAP’s victory

AAP’s victory

Riding on its development agenda, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party has registered another resounding victory in the Delhi assembly elections. Contrary to what was being claimed, the Bharatiya Janata Party couldn’t do much despite its high-pitched and star-studded election campaign which is blamed for trying every dirty trick in the book. And the grand […]

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What next?

What next?

Even a people were expecting some kind of headway in the political impasse here in the wake of major political players of the Valley completing six months in detention, the authorities have further extended their preventive detention. For instance, while the three-time former chief minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah is already serving detention under the Public […]

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Exorbitant airfare

Exorbitant airfare

The authorities have finally woken up to the plight of air travelers from Kashmir who are to made to pay through nose whenever the weather becomes a bit hostile closing the Srinagar-Jammu highway or resulting into cancelation of flights. Taking a serious note of peoples’ complaints, the Crime Branch, Kashmir has registered a case against […]

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Srinagar, Jammu cities need facelift

Srinagar, Jammu cities need facelift

There finally is some good news for the inhabitants of twin cities of Srinagar and Jammu as the UT administration has approved a proposal to set up Elevated Light Rail System (ELRS). The approval to the Rs 10,559 crore project was granted by the Administrative Council of UT with a intention that an efficient urban […]

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Concentrating on development

Concentrating on development

The winter is slowly coming to an end thus reviving the hope of Spring, the season that is full of life and activity. The winter has been and continues to remain tough for the people of the Valley. The weather took its toll as the snowfall in the first week of November last year played […]

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Selective demolitions

Selective demolitions

This week some action was finally initiated against illegal constructions that have come up in Khushal Sar lagoon in the heart of Srinagar. A structure or two were demolished but dozens of other illegal structures have been spared. While the action against the illegal structures is appreciable, but there are certainly some questions which could […]

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Dangerous compromise

Dangerous compromise

Professional inaptitude, lack on concern together with complete unaccountability make a deadly cocktail which is putting entire Kashmir at grave risk in the face of coronavirus threat. Now see the people coming from China, instead of being quarantined for two weeks under expert medical supervision, are being allowed to go home. For the sake of […]

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Politics of hate

Politics of hate

A day when the entire country was observing the Martyrs’ Day to remember the father of the nation, Mahatama Gandhi who was assassinated on January 30, 1948, a young man brandishing a pistol emerged at Jamia Millia Islamia University, where students were peacefully protesting against controversial C.A.A and shot a student in his left arm. […]

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Remembering Gandhi

Remembering Gandhi

Today when entire world is dangerously in the grip of disturbances, violence, discrimination and disparity, one misses people like Mahatama Gandhi, the man who lived for freedom of thought and soul, non violence and peace. He defeated world’s then only super power, British, not with artillery of nuclear bombing, but with the weapon of non […]

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