Opinion

 Crescent Kashmir

DIVINE JUSTICE

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. […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Enquiry report

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

WILL IT HELP?

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Protests in Srinagar

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Shopian encounter

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Official claims

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 […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Handicrafts sector

Handicrafts sector

In the past there used to be a debate whether tourism or handicrafts was the backbone of Kashmir economy and most of the analysts would say that handicrafts was the main economic plank of Kashmir. This sector has suffered heavily due to the turmoil in the past three decades in general and from the unrest […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Back to Ladakh

Back to Ladakh

Media reports from Leh said that in the past few weeks there has been some migration of villagers from the Chuchul area of Ladakh. Dozens of families have migrated from many forward villages including from Chuchul as they feel that it could be war anytime and such fears are only growing among the common people […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Corruption complaints

Corruption complaints

In the recent past different media outlets from New Delhi and some local media organizations have reported about the growing complaints of corruption in the administration. In the wake of media reports and after meeting scores of delegations Lieutenant Governor has expressed his displeasure over such complaints and has asked the officers to be transparent […]

 Crescent Kashmir

GOVERNMENT IS LISTENING

GOVERNMENT IS LISTENING

New LG Manoj Sinha has tried to convey to the people of Jammu and Kashmir that he will listen to their complaints and also take action against the official’s response for any callous behavior or inaction. He recently in a press conference launched a new portal for the complaints and said that this mechanism would […]