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

Lawyer who secured death sentence for Afzal disapproves secret hanging

It is a human rights violation, family ought to have been first informed: Prosecutor Gopal Subramanium

SPOTLIGHT

New Delhi, Feb 13: The very lawyer instrumental in securing death sentence for Afzal Guru disapproves of the secretive manner in which he has been executed without being given an opportunity to meet his More


  • Srinagar City

Police start helplines in 'caged' city

‘We want to reach out to people’

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, Feb 13: Amid continuous curfew to quell protests against hanging of Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru, police have come up with helplines in the city for “convenience” of people. & More



  • Jammu

Traffic disrupted on highway

M M PARVAIZ

Ramban, Feb 13: Traffic remained disrupted on Jammu-Srinagar highway for more than six hours following landslides triggered at Seri near Ramban township on Wednesday morning.As per official reports landslides More


  • South Asia

Salah-u-Din for unified political leadership

Flays Pak Govt’s silence over hanging

Afzal Hanging Murder Of Justice And Law: UJC

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Islamabad, Feb 13: Urging pro-freedom leadership to forge unity, the UJC leadership on Wednesday said a unified political leadership in Kashmir with a strong resistance movement at its back was the only More


  • World

Obama announces troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

LALIT K JHA\PTI

Washington, Feb 13: US President Barack Obama today announced to bring 34,000 American troops back home from war-torn Afghanistan in the next one year as he warned North Korea and Iran to meet the international More


  • PaK

Afzal’s hanging can’t suppress Kashmir movement: PaK PM

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, Feb 13: Prime Minister of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK)   Chaudhry Abdul Majeed on Wednesday said that persecution of Kashmiris would not deter them from carrying forward More


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