Editorial

Dr.Banarsi Lal, Dr.Shahid Ahamad Women constitute around half of the world's population but in fact they are the largest excluded category in all aspects of life. They have only 1/10th of the global income. Around 70 per cent of women are…
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Prof Hari Om On July 8, the security forces and J&K Police liquidated dreaded Hizbul Muhahideen's poster boy in Kashmir, Burhan Wani, in the Kokarnag area of South Kashmir. He was one of the most wanted terrorists and carried on his…
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India came down heavily on Pakistan on Thursday for observing 'Black Day' to express solidarity with the victims of Kashmir protests. Condemning Pakistan for observing the day, India demanded that Pakistan must fulfill the obligation to…
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The incident at Una in Gujarat, where Dalit youths were paraded and flogged for allegedly killing a cow, caused nation-wide outrage after its video went viral. The victims' contention was that they were skinning a dead cow and had not…
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Satwant Singh Rissam In last three decades, Jammu has turned into a big city with its expanded periphery which stretched very rapidly during this period. This expansion is believed to have been because of rise in number of new residential…
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Ashok K Mehta    When Burhan Wani was killed in a routine operation earlier this month, his father, a headmaster, was apparently waiting for it to happen: "The life cycle of a militant is seven years. He had used up six years", he said.…
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Mahadeep Singh Jamwal The 2014 Parliamentary elections were historic for the BJP in India. The said elections will be remembered by the history for two reasons, one for the absolute majority to the party for the first time and second for…
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Though the Chief Minister's office has denied about giving instructions for closing down and stopping of publication of newspapers in Valley, the whole exercise of creating such a novel concept by curtailing the flow of information has…
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National Aeronautical and Space Agency (NASA) has come out with study showing the six-month period from January to June as the planet's warmest half-year on record, and also had the lowest Arctic sea ice extent since satellite records began…
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C. S Havaldar  About 1,485 cases of human rights violations have been reported in Kashmir Valley since 1990. Of these, 1,439 (96.9%) were proved false. Following the Supreme Court verdict on the Armed Forces' Special Powers Act, 1958…
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