Wednesday, July 9, 2025

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Development Drive

The high-level review meeting chaired by Prime Minister’s Advisor Tarun Kapoor on Monday focussed on Jammu and Kashmir’s development journey. With a wide-ranging agenda spanning energy, infrastructure, healthcare, urban mobility, digital connectivity
Jul. 9, 2025

Craft Commerce

The Traders’ Conclave – 2025, held at SKICC Srinagar and addressed by Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, placed a spotlight on Jammu & Kashmir’s economic priorities. With a particular focus on handicrafts, trade and tourism, the event
Jul. 8, 2025

Untapped Opportunity

Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Rajiv Ranjan Singh and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah

Sacred March

For the third year in a row, the 8th Muharram procession was held along its traditional

Lesson learned

Kashmir is grappling with one of the worst winters in recent decades. The temperatures are plummeting several degrees below normal. People are suffering due to frozen and burst water pipes. Nothing is
Feb. 1, 2021

Prepare please!

In a pleasing development, the authorities last week announced that schools in Jammu and Kashmir will finally open after nearly a year long closure due to COVID-19, the pandemic that rattled the
Jan. 27, 2021

Hope sanity prevails!

At least one person was killed on Tuesday after his tractor overturned during protests at ITO in New Delhi as thousands of farmers entered the national capital to carry out their proposed
Jan. 27, 2021

More power

Earlier this week, the Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, gave its approval to 850 MW Ratle Hydro Electric Project located on river Chenab, in Kishtwar district. It was
Jan. 22, 2021

Cyber crimes

The menace of cyber crimes has spread its tentacles across the globe and Kashmir too is falling prey to it. Every other day reports of people being duped of their hard-earned money
Jan. 20, 2021

Food adulteration

Almost 3000 food samples have failed the quality parameters in Jammu and Kashmir till early 2020. This shows how alarming an issue food adulteration is turning into. The increasing number of food
Jan. 19, 2021

Safety first

Several incidents of fire have been reported in Srinagar and other districts in the last few weeks. Most of these blazes, as per reports and eyewitnesses, were triggered by heating appliances kept
Jan. 18, 2021

Will and determination

Generally, life is tougher these days. But when your plate is full and more and more is pounding on, seemingly breaking your spirit, and cornering to push you down the abyss, a
Jan. 17, 2021

Proactive approach

The recent snowfall and its aftermath have brought to the fore several issues in Kashmir. It has happened for the first time in recent history that the valley is in the grip
Jan. 15, 2021

Held hostage

The Srinagar-Jammu highway has once against held the people of Kashmir hostage during the most difficult period of the year. Earlier this week, an entire bridge collapsed at Kela Morh, in Ramban
Jan. 13, 2021
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