It Hurts Deep

Bringing ridicule to Islam and Muslim civilization pains

Mehmood ur Rashid

The person of ‘Grand Mufti’ and his latest fatwa represent the trivialities of present day Kashmir. They can at best produce the revulsive cacophony in the studios of Indian TV channels. And Indian TV channels are the handmaiden of Indian state when it comes to Kashmir. That is the reason why the More
Rock for “AZADI”!

The “Rocking” controversy seems a deliberate attempt to disrupt the cultural milieu in Kashmir with a view to paint Kashmiris as hard core fundamentalists

M.Ashraf

The latest Indian electronic media craze about Kashmir these days is the all-girls rock band gyrating to western tunes. The controversy has been deliberately snowballed by the ever watchful media channels ready to catch at any straw which may derail Kashmir’s popular movement. Unfortunately, the dumb More
America, as I observed!

A strict law enforcement system and an appropriate sense of living - that defines US

FIDA IQBAL

Most often I don’t miss my weekly write-up, particularly while being out of the valley. So, out here in US I religiously stuck to my weekly writing schedule for first four weeks. However, the pressure of working on my course, schedule of evaluation and assessment robbed me even of my weekends (the More
Why this discrimination?

Honour is honour, no matter a woman belongs to a conflict zone or not

Muneeb Jeelani Khan

Rape is a heinous crime. In fact, one of the most heinous crimes condemned in harshest terms in almost every society, culture and country. Someone has rightly said that the offence of rape is more gruesome than murder. In murder one simply takes the life of another but in rape one takes another’s More
  • Kashmir

Sopore Custodial Killing

SHRC awaits Chief Minister’s action into ‘this grave human rights violation’

Asks DGP to initiate departmental probe against senior police officers

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Feb 6: Reminding Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of his promise to bring the accused in custodial killing of a Sopore youth in 2011 to justice, the Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission on Wednesday More


  • Srinagar City

Maintain quality, transparency in execution of development works: Jora

Reviews functioning of SMC, visits various areas of city

Srinagar, Feb 6: Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora on Wednesday reviewed progress and functioning of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC).     More



  • Jammu

JK constitutes panel to ‘study’ Verma Committee report

To Recommend Amendments In Existing Laws On Crime Against Women

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 6: The Government Wednesday constituted a high-powered committee to recommend amendments to make the existing laws dealing with the offences against women more stringent.An official spokesman 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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