People in general have been closely watching the last journey of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and all the political leadership including separatists have paid rich tributes to him for being the first and the only Prime Minister of India to understand the pain and sufferings of Kashmiris and also tried hard to find […]
State Governor N.N. Vohra is finding it difficult to handle the letters by Rajasthan police’s Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), probing the arms licenses issued to the tune of 4.29 lakh people from various districts of Jammu and Kashmir State in past one decade. Previously ATS Rajasthan got no response from the top civil and police officials […]
Former Chief Minister and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti has blamed a section in Central agencies of trying to break her party by defections and claimed that some of her lawmakers have told her that they have received threats that they will face NIA raids if they will not defect from the party. She has been […]
Dr Farooq Abdullah recently in the parliament appealed Prime Minister Narindra Modi to rise upto the occasion and start a peace process with Pakistan and all the stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir. He said that many people may not like in the Parliament, but the fact remains that without the inclusion of Pakistan there can […]
In Srinagar city there is a growing trend of converting residential houses in many colonies into commercial outlets. This activity has been going on in the past several years and all the previous governments are responsible for allowing such activity to go unchecked. After the September 2014 floods, this activity became more pronounced and it […]
The major challenges faced by the State administration are illegal constructions in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir. These illegal constructions have increased manifold in Jammu region also. The government claimed that they have already framed a policy to deal with unauthorized constructions; there is complete silence on illegal constructions by government departments over the […]
When Governor N.N. Vohra took over the reins of governance in J&K State after Mehbooba Mufti resigned due to the pulling of rug by BJP, he assured the people that security forces would be told in clear terms to avoid collaterial damage during anti-militancy operations. About seven deaths of civilians in few days has shown […]
Public delivery system is the basic ingredient of good governance on the ground and governance administration has failed so far to make it responsive to needs of general public. Recently the new Chief Secretary rolled out his own vision of making the administration public friendly, but on the ground there is no change. Let us […]
Srinagar: Residents of downtown woke up on Sunday morning to witness strict curfew and restriction, as JRL has given a shutdown call for today against the killings of three militants and a civilian who was crushed to death by a police vehicle during protests. With frequent shutdowns crippling life in Kashmir, Srinagar wore a deserted […]
State DGP SP Vaid said on Twitter that encounter concluded at Shopian, five bodies of terrorists recovered. There are fears that the fifth body is of assistant professor of university of Kashmir Dr Mohd Shafi. However DGP has said that identity of militants has not been yet ascertained. One critically injured boy of 17 years […]