Statetimes - The Bold Voice of J&K

When the temperature drops, the shorter days make you want to go into hibernation mode. It's tempting to lounge around the house, snacking and binge-watching your favourite TV shows when it's cold outside, but here are some ways to have a…
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Describing PDP and National Conference as puppets of New Delhi, Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Geelani has stated, "We have to understand that we are under the occupation and we all must unite to fight against the oppression and for the dissent.…
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Amitabh Mathur Much like his predecessor Hamid Karzai, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has begun his tenure with a serious effort to mend fences with Pakistan. Relations between the two countries, which share close ethnic, religious and…
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Swapan Dasgupta There's a curious rule that operates in Indian politics: the popularity of a regional leader in the Delhi media is inversely related to their standing in their State. So it was in the late-1980s with Ramakrishna Hegde, then…
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Beaten but not ousted is the spirit of National Conference after the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The party has been able to manage 15 out of 87 seats from where it contested even beating the figure of exit polls in the face of…
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Militancy in north-east is no phenomena, but massacre of adivasi tea estate labourers by a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam's Kokrajhar and Somtiput districts claiming more than 70 lives is the biggest…
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Isher Singh Jasrotia Our civil society is passing through a difficult phase with sudden eruption of crimes in large scales in the society, which has destroyed the fibre of peaceful co-existence and there is grave threatening to the…
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Dear Editor, It is a pity that some of our leaders rush to issue outlandish statements about language and put governments and academics in awkward positions, e.g. Uma Bharti's prediction that Sanskrit can replace English in India. It is a…
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Dear Editor, The amendment of the Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act will make the fight against child exploitation a little easier. It will an honour to Kailash Satyarthi, the winner of Noble peace prize. Despite efforts by his…
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Dear Editor, The dastardly attack by the Taliban on a school in Pakistan has benumbed everybody. Those involved in it are nowhere near true religion. During the times of Guru Tegh Bahadur and Guru Gobind Singh, Aurangzeb also indulged in…
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