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ROAD SAFETY WEEK: Stop ritual, rein in traffic managers, MR GOVERNOR!
BLUNT BUTCHER
On Day-2 of the Road Safety Week, killer roads have claimed yet another toll of seven lives near Sopore in Kashmir. It may be sheer coincidence that the mishap occurred the day when Inspector General of Police was pleading for…
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Lohri preparations in full swing
Malu Kerni
Lohri festival, which falls generally on 13th January every year, is one of the important festivals, which marks the end of winter season, with Sun's declination commencing its northward move to bring warmth to the northern…
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Let the Governor set healthy practices; stem rot
DOST KHAN
Jammu: In democracy, there is no alternative to peoples' government but when circumstances go haywire and turn as complex as in Jammu and Kashmir after dangerously fractured mandate in recent Assembly elections, imposition of the…
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Promotions on ‘fake’ B.Ed degrees; Dir Edu issues show-cause notice to 221 promotees
VIVEK SHARMA
JAMMU: In a delayed response to an exposé made by STATE TIMES about promotion of teachers on the basis of fake B.Ed degrees, the Director Education Jammu has issued show-cause notice to 221 teachers who were promoted as Masters…
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Geelani invokes Bhagat Singh but for a wrong cause
BLUNT BUTCHER
JAMMU: Equating Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Sukhdev with stone pelters and drug addict Jihadis operating in Kashmir is just ridiculous. The comparison speaks volumes about the sick minds of separatists, who have…
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Snub to Hurriyat hawks by Mustafa Kamal is well-timed
Mustafa's direct salvo to Hurriyat Conference reflects the realisation in mainstream camp to call the bluff of separatists.
Jammu: At a time when Kashmir mainstream is in competitive gear to score brownie points over one another by…
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J&K abandoned: First by natural fury, now by political wrangling
DOST KHAN
Jammu: Jammu has been last priority for the rulers, both in New Delhi and in Srinagar. The peculiar mindset has left this region vulnerable to all sort of exploitation. The new dispensation at the Centre has not made any…
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It was not practical for States to stay independent after 1947
By Daya Sagar
On June 3, 1947, Louis Mountbatten, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma and the then Viceroy of India had announced the decision for partition of India creating a new dominion of Pakistan. To create a theocratic Islamic State of…
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Trading terror to derive political mileage: What cost?
DOST KHAN
Agreed, the marginalised Congress is struggling to put its act together by cornering Narendra Modi-led NDA government on any and every front but this war of politics can be fought on the turf, other than that borders the national…
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Talk India talk because soft secessionists want it
JAMMU: Short of Kashmir Congress, the so-called mainstream parties in the Valley invoke Atal Behari Vajpayee and want India to talk to Pakistan to solve, what they call, Kashmir imbroglio.
The Kashmir mainstream is morally obliged to…
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