editorial article 1

The illegal extraction of sand, stone and gravel from rivers in the periphery of bridges and other structures in Jammu District has been going on unchecked despite a ban. The worst affected is the Basantar, Devak and Balole Bridges in…
Read More...

The recent controversy over whether Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya Kumar raised anti-India slogans or not or the same was doctored, the issue was blown bigger than the reality by none other than the over…
Read More...

SAHIL KISHORE SHARMA The subject and the issue of women empowerment has always grabbed the headlines since decades and this issue has always been in limelight during any election campaign. When we celebrated International Women's Day on…
Read More...

It looks Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition is intact and all the signals emanating may indicate an early settlement for the government formation in Jammu and Kashmir. But reality it appears is quite…
Read More...

Vinayshil Gautam   The UAE's Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was on a state visit to India recently. India and the UAE are not new friends on the block. When I was in Kozhikode, I noticed that Dubai occurred more frequently in…
Read More...

The 33 per cent  reservation for women in Parliament has been a demand which has remained on air  for over three decades. Before the Bill on 33 per cent reservation of seats for women in the Lok Sabha was introduced in December 1998, it had…
Read More...

The unprecedented intelligence warning on Sunday did not contain any specific details on the Jihadist group involved, or information that could lead police to perpetrators but the matter cannot be written off lightly. This is for the first…
Read More...

The withdrawal of American and allied forces and emergence of Indian presence in Afghanistan has changed the geo-political scenario in the region. The turning point came by the end of 2014. A political transition to a post-Karzai period had…
Read More...

Jammu and Kashmir is predominantly an agriculture  economy and 81.4 per cent of the total population still lives in rural area whose main occupation and means of livelihood is agriculture. It contributes nearly 60 per cent of the State…
Read More...

The rising number of diabetes cases among the young generation in India is a matter of concern and there is a need to evolve a treatment plan suitable to Indian conditions. This means medicines would be prescribed depending on the stage of…
Read More...