Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Editorial - Page 53

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

Votes for development

The unexpected turnout in the first phase of the District Development Council (DDC) elections in Kashmir indicates that people are ready to endorse the democratic process if they believe that the basic
Dec. 15, 2020

Pandemic plight

COVID-19 and its impact may have bogged us down, leaving many of us breathless (literally), and shattered after losing our loved ones in a manner we had never thought of in our
Dec. 15, 2020

Digital dilemma

With children spending many hours glued to the screen for online classes, parents are in a quandaryon allowing them more screen time, wary of long-term effect on their eyesight. Ophthalmologists alsoagree that
Dec. 15, 2020

Vaccine round the corner

As hundreds of thousands have been devoured by the virus, it is a race against time for the scientists who are putting in their efforts and knowledge to find a cure 7.8
Dec. 15, 2020

Teaching in 21st century

Our younger generation is digitally groomed and equipped with loads of information gathered through internet and social media. They have justifiable reasons to brand themselves as digital natives. They are no longer
Dec. 15, 2020

Plight of Uighur Muslims

The plight of Uighur Muslims who are subjected to worst ever ill-treatment by China is heart wrenching. Muslims are forced to eat and drink during the day time at their work places.
Dec. 15, 2020

The unending woes

With fresh snowfall in most parts of the valley and frequent closure of Jammu-Srinagar highway, there is no let up to the problems of common people. These rather get multiplied with each
Dec. 15, 2020

Give peace a chance

Last Friday, the borders dividing Kashmir spilled death and destruction as Pakistan and India traded fire leading to human casualties on either end. Once again, the innocent people living close to the
Dec. 15, 2020

Time to introspect

All is not well in our society. Political uncertainty apart, socially and morally too we are in a state of serious crisis. We have bitterly failed to evolve as a considerate society.
Dec. 15, 2020

The Best of the creation

There is a great deal of evidence about the virtues and unique characteristics of the Prophet, but as far as we know there is no text that clearly states that the Prophet
Dec. 15, 2020