Editorial

M. M Khajooria Jammu, the land of Dogra warriors, abode of peace where Tiger and Lamb were known to quench their thirst together from the same pool of water is being choked by fires of hatred ignited by an extraordinary combination of…
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The mid-term course correction in Jammu and Kashmir by reshuffling the cabinet was there in the air for quiet sometime with speculations ripe for who's who would make into the final list. The state can have a maximum of 25 ministers,…
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The much touted cheap medicine throught the Jan Aushadhi scheme announced by the Jammu and Kashmir government two years back is yet to take off in its originally conceived format so that common man gets affordable medicines. Looks the…
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G Parthasarathy As sectarian Shia-Sunni and civilisational Arab-Persian-Israeli rivalries dominate the geopolitics of our western neighbourhood today, India faces a very different situation from what it confronted four decades ago, when the…
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Gurinder Singh India is at a precarious position. When the world is aging, India is growing younger. We are set to become the youngest nation in the world by 2030 and according to the International Monetary Fund, this demographic dividend…
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Dr. S. Sapru Periodic reviews and course corrections. Now what has changed during the last 25 years? 1. Population of district Jammu is projected as around 20 lakh as of now (2018) while it was 15.29 lakhs in 2011. To this figure add around…
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The rising petrol and diesel prices have kept the common man on tenterhooks and the recent price revision has made fuel costliest ever. India imported crude oil at an average rate of around $64 per barrel, a price compared to July 2009,…
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The one-day protest against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act - has left a vast trail of mayhem in the Hindi belt. The Supreme Court had on March 20 "diluted" the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the…
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Hasan Suroor Way back in 1997, in a rare undiplomatic public outburst, the then Prime Minister, IK Gujral, dismissed Britain as a "third rate power" after its foreign secretary Robin Cook gratuitously offered to mediate in the Kashmir…
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Shubham Mehta There has been a spurt of activities in the recent past in quick succession albeit they were not stand-alone or let's say unique but rather a peculiar feature of Indian democracy. Just a few days ago, a group of infuriating,…
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