The difficulty of being a domestic help

Unnoticed and often ill-treated, she struggles to earn a respectable living for her family

Fayaz Safvi

She heads off to work at eight in the morning, makes breakfast for her morning employer, readies her children for school and juggles many other roles. She works 10 hours a day with one hour lunch break. She supports her two children and puts aside whatever money she could to put a roof on her house that More
Talking of Reproductive Health

Education about reproductive health related problems is the need of the hour

Kalpana Tikku

Speaking about sexual and reproductive health of adolescents is a delicate issue, one that raises strong emotional responses from adults in general. The entire issue of sexuality is taboo. Ignorance, misinformation, and misconceptions concerning issues of sexuality and health abound among the vast majority More
  • Kashmir

Separatists, militants condemn Afzal’s hanging

Srinagar, Feb 9: Various separatists and militant organizations have condemned the hanging of Afzal Guru in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on Saturday.   Barbaric murder: Salahuddin   Chairman More


  • Srinagar City

CITY REELS UNDER CURFEW

LOCALS, TOURISTS FACE INCONVENIENCE

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 9: Clamping of curfew in Srinagar following hanging of Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru at Tihar Jail in New Delhi, caused immense inconvenience to locals and tourists.   More



  • Jammu

We always opposed capital punishment: Tarigami

Jammu, Feb 9: State Secretary of CPI (M) M Y Tarigami on Saturday said that his party had always been against the capital punishment to Afzal Guru.  Tarigami in a statement said: “It has been our More


  • South Asia

Handover Guru’s body: Malik

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Feb 9: Terming Guru’s hanging as a blot on Indian democracy, the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik on Saturday said that his execution by New Delhi had speckled More


  • PaK

PaK civil society aghast at Afzal’s hanging

TARIQ NAQASH

MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 9: Expressing condemnations, shock and gloom over the hanging of Afzal Guru on Saturday, Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) based political civil society activists said that such ghastly More


  • GKeducation&Careers

Training journalists of the future

Ill-equipped departments, obsolete syllabus and inexperienced faculty worries journalism students

TEACHING JOURNALISM

IMRAN MUZAFFAR

Um Roommana Sulaiman, 23, wants to become a successful television broadcaster like Mishal Husain of the BBC. A 4th semester student of journalism at the Islamic University of Science and Technology Awantipora More


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