Letters to Editor

Dear Editor, The steep increase in penalties for traffic violations proposed in the new draft Road Transport and Safety Bill, 2014, is welcomed. Apart from hiking penalties up to 50-fold, it also proposes stringent action that includes…
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Dear Editor, We are paying heavily for the cost of development in the form of loss of life and property caused by natural disasters. We should seek a better lifestyle, but not at the cost of the gift of nature by not tinkering with them.…
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Dear Editor, The people of Jammu and Kashmir are passing through an ordeal as the Valley is facing a massive natural disaster because of heavy floods triggered by torrential rains in six decades. Nearly 300 people have lost their lives and…
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Dear Editor, Mathura MP Hema Malini's outcry against the monkeys of Vrindavan is unwarranted. Cleaning the Yamuna is one thing and driving out monkeys from Vrindavan is another. Who says the monkeys are a menace in Vrindavan? They are part…
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Dear Editor, According to a survey revealed by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), nearly three out of four people working in the non-agricultural sector in India are in informal jobs. Eighty per cent of these informal sector…
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Dear Editor, The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their political greed in times of moral crisis. It has been witnessed that Kashmir and politics go hand in hand. Kashmir is always in the news but of the late, for…
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Dear Editor, China will never want to resolve the border dispute because it is in an advantageous position by occupying a large chunk of territory south of the Himalayas which, rightfully and according to natural justice, belongs to India.…
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Dear Editor, Wherever any disaster takes place, the armed forces and Commandoes reach there immediately. Whether it was the Kargil war, Gujarat earthquake, Ladakh cloudburst, Uttarakhand landslide, Mumbai attack and now Jammu-Srinagar…
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Dear Editor, On the one side there is a shortage of doctors in the hospitals and on the other side is the high cost and limited number of seats in medical education. Very brilliant students are absorbed at the first stroke, what about the…
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Dear Editor Floods in the Kashmir valley have claimed the lives of hundreds of people and caused misery to lakhs. The regions of Jammu and Kashmir in India and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Punjab in Pakistan have been…
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