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

SAC seeks personal appearance of former minister

COMPLAINANT ALLEGES ‘DEATH THREATS’ TO WITHDRAW CASE

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Feb 8: The regular inquiry initiated by the State Accountability Commission (SAC) in an alleged corruption case against the former Health Minister Suman Lata Baghat has taken a new twist. The More


  • Srinagar City

Strive to bring Srinagar on tourist map: Jora to SDA

REVIEWS ITS FUNCTIONING

Srinagar, Feb 8: The Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora on Friday directed the Srinagar Development Authority (SDA) authorities to put in all out efforts to bring More



  • Jammu

Out-of-turn promotion for best teachers: Govt

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, Feb 8: In an effort to improve the standard of teaching in government schools in Jammu and Kashmir, the state education department is contemplating to annually give ‘out of turn’ promotion to five More


  • South Asia

Pak Minister not to visit India as SAARC meet cancelled

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Islamabad, Feb 8: Pakistan Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim has called off a visit to India later this month as a SAARC business meet he was scheduled to attend in New Delhi has been cancelled.  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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