SECURITY COVER
Government has many times said that they are providing the required security cover to all those political activists who have a threat on the ground. But some of the killings in the recent past have exposed such claims of the government and have shown that the ground workers are still vulnerable and rest are only […]
POLITICAL SPACE
Government has recently allowed all the mainstream political parties to hold meetings and have lifted the restrictions on their movement and also on their activities. The National Conference was the first political force to get the space and they held a series of meetings in Srinagar to discuss the ground situation and also to take […]
Pain of Sajad Lone
Sajad Gani Lone was the first politician from Kashmir to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and decided to have an alliance with BJP much before PDP. He was a critic of both National Conference and PDP and used to call them as political qabal of Kashmir out to deceive their own people and work for […]
Kargil simmers
People of Kargil are not happy with the recent developments in their newly created Union Territory and they want either Ladakh to be declared as a separate state or the Kargil district should be made part of Kashmir. They are not amused not even with assurances of Union Home Minister to the Ladakhi leadership that […]
DIVINE JUSTICE
Sajad Gani Lone was right and was speaking the heart of victim families when he said that justice should not be ornamental but should be divine. He was reacting to the police statement that the DNA samples of parents of Rajouri have matched those three persons killed by army in a staged encounter at Shopian. […]
Enquiry report
In order to fix the responsibility on the ground J&K Government has suspended two officials who were responsible for keeping the oxygen supply to the covid designated hospitals of Jammu region. The government had ordered an inquiry into the death of a covid patient who died recently in the hospital and his family alleged that […]
WILL IT HELP?
Government has come out with a fresh dose of financial intervention in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir especially to help the business houses both big and small for their interest piling up with different banks and financial institutions. LG Manoj Sinha recently announced a financial package of Rs 1350 crores for the business […]
Protests in Srinagar
Recently a woman was killed in Batmaloo during a cordon and search operation triggering a lot of protests and demand for a probe into the incident. The family members of the deceased woman including her son who was accompanying her when she was fired told the media that she was killed in cold blood. However […]
Shopian encounter
After the army has indicted its unit of RR for exceeding the laws in the fake encounter, the government has said that police were in the middle of investigation as that had ordered a parallel probe. On July 18, the Army claimed that it had killed three unidentified militants in Amshipora Shopian. In a statement […]
Official claims
Official date does not match with the ground reports of government run hospitals of how they are running the covid designated hospitals and what are the alternate arrangements for the non covid patients in the hospitals especially for the pregnant ladies and children. Most senior bureaucrats have been giving press conferences and also press releases […]