Opinion

 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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Trust matters

Trust matters

Manoj Sinha in a recent interview has said that he has tried to restore the trust among the common people that the administration will not only listen to them but also redress their genuine grievances. About the Roshni scheme and the latest review petition by his administration in the JK high court, Sinha said that […]

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Review petition

Review petition

Dust started settling down regarding the recent court decision about the Roshni act of Jammu and Kashmir government.  Few weeks back JK high court in its decision described the Roshni act as a scam and has asked the CBI to probe into the matter while making all the land dealings under this act as null […]

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Misplaced apprehensions

Misplaced apprehensions

J&K administration has been expressing a lot of apprehensions about the ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir post abrogation of article 370 on August 5, 2019. They have made arrests and also put the curbs on all means of communication including even the landlines. The curbs continued for months and finally the curbs on the […]

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Unfortunate incident

Unfortunate incident

Recently three local journalists were thrashed allegedly at the instance of SSP Anantnag while they were covering DDC elections. The entire political leadership of Kashmir reacted to this incident and condemned their thrashing by police. Mehbooba Mufti in her tweet said that they were thrashed as they had an interview of a PAGD candidate who […]

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Roshni act decision challenged

Roshni act decision challenged

Many petitioners have gone to Supreme Court of India against the recent decision of JK high court calling the act as illegal and unconstitutional while ordering a CBI probe into this entire scam. The petitioners have told the Supreme Court that the JK high court decision was wrong in the light of laws and they […]