Opinion

 Crescent Kashmir

Low internet even in coming year

Low internet even in coming year

Since August 5, 2019, people of Jammu and Kashmir are not getting any respite to use high speed internet and this uncertainty is looming over the young generation here. After the DDC elections were held in a most peaceful manner all the political circles in Kashmir and the student community were hopeful that the New […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Democracy wins

Democracy wins

BJP has been changing the statements about the DDC polls and the latest is that after the PAGD registered win, BJP said it is a victory of democracy. PAGD leaders have questioned this logic of BJP and said that if they really mean it then they should restore article 370 as people have through democratic […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Omar asserts

Omar asserts

Former chief minister and PAGD leader Omar Abdullah has said that if winning of three DDC seats in Kashmir is a victory, then PAGD has created Tsunami by his victory. Omar Abdullah has said that despite BJP using all the powers and central agencies against the PAGD leaders, people of Jammu and Kashmir by voting […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Srinagar gets a fractured verdict

Srinagar gets a fractured verdict

All the 14 seats for Srinagar district have been announced by the district authorities but the results are more inclined towards independent. PAGD had only managed to get 3 seats; while JK Apni Party had won 3 seats. The verdict is very surprising, as the PAGD fought these elections together and expected to win the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Mehbooba speaks

Mehbooba speaks

Vice President of PAGD Mehbooba Mufti recently visited many villages of Budgam district and interacted with those families who have been complaining about getting eviction notices from the forest department. While interacting with delegation from many villages Mehbooba expressed sharp concern over what she called repression on the common people. She said that abrogation of […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Chain of vaccination

Chain of vaccination

Government of Jammu and Kashmir has been making all the arrangements for the distribution of covid vaccines to different places so that there is no crisis in the field. Lot of high level meetings have been held in the recent past in order to streamline the process and to keep administration ready for the vaccine […]

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Unlocking potential

Unlocking potential

Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha recently said that time has come to unlock the potential of youth in Jammu and Kashmir but he did not provide any road map of how to do it within a timeline. All the previous political dispensations and the Raj Bhawan during the central rule have praised the youth of Jammu […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Refugees

Refugees

While the west Pakistani refugees settled in Jammu recently voted in the ongoing DDC elections, the government has eased the process further for all those families who have come to Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 and have now settled in different states. The JK government recently notified three lists containing particulars of all recorded displaced […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Pace of development

Pace of development

Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha has been monitoring all the developmental projects in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir especially those sanctioned under Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP) projects. Recently he held a high level meeting in the civil secretariat of Jammu and he was informed by the top civil servants about the pace of […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Talks must

Talks must

Talks are very important and the political parties of any place especially from Jammu and Kashmir have to talk with the central government on various issues and cannot shirk this responsibility. In power politics it is all the more important to be on the right side of the power especially if the mainstream political party […]