Statetimes - The Bold Voice of J&K

With prospects of Indo-Pak cricket ties reviving by year-end normalising of relations looks a possibility which had remained clouded after 2008 Mumbai attacks. The  holding or reviving  of sports tie especially cricket which  has been the…
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Literacy is still a distant dream for many in India. Going by the pace of development it will take another five decades to achieve respectable female youth literacy percentage. Empowerment of women through education and equal opportunities…
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Harsh V Pant Promising to lead a government for "one nation" and make "Great Britain greater" as he returned to 10 Downing Street as prime minister, David Cameron proved the British pollsters and political pundits wrong. For all the talk…
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Jitender Kohli Since 1947 the society is bearing the outcome of so-called secularism qualified by the Nehru-Gandhi led Congress and its alliance. To hold the secular word they had converted the minorities to vote-bank section of society at…
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Arvind Kumar Certain observations were made by the Finance Minister in his budget speech on 28 February 2015 regarding two premier social security schemes of the country, namely Employees' State Insurance Scheme (ESI) and Employees'…
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Dear Editor, Colleges and universities are working with half the capacity of the faculty required. In this process, students are worst-affected. Temporary staff recruited every session on contractual basis, and on a meager salary, fails to…
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Dear Editor, I would say that of all the professions, the maximum uncertainty is in agriculture.  This is the only profession which faces more minuses and less pluses due to rains, hailstorms, draught, floods, diseases related to crops and…
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Dear Editor, Out of 700 universities and 36,000 affiliated colleges enrolling nearly 30 million students, even a single university does not figure in the top 200 universities in the world in terms of quality education. Even institutions of…
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Mumbai: The SUV used by social activist Aanna Hazare during various agitations, including the Jan Lokpal movement, will be auctioned at his native village Ralegan Siddhi. "Anna needs a new vehicle because he is suffering from back pain,…
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Srinagar: CRPF today said it is working on changing the strategy of deployment and patrolling in order to curb the incidents of weapon-snatching by militants in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the recent killing of two of its personnel in…
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