A Monetary Black Hole Called PDD

Rashid discloses the latest case of corruption in the J&K Power Development Department (PDD). He is not alone. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) uncovered some more nuggets. Will the Department ever go clean? State engages in wishful thinking (3...

CAG: J&K Government Equals Zero Accountability

The latest report (2010-2011) from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) points to a systematic pattern of institutional misgovernance in J&K which makes one wonder if a deliberate state wide fraud is being committed by those in power. Several reports CAG...

The Canine Paradox, Part-2

Go figure this out. Check out the two stories in the Greater Kashmir Dog Attacks on Children Show Steep Rise in Valley Srinagar: The government’s failure to check the increasing number of stray and rabid dogs in the Valley is showing dangerous ramifications on ground...

Not Dalgate, but “Dal-gate”

J&K Government takes bad governance to a new high J&K Failed to Implement Its Own Report on Dal Lake Srinagar: The IIT Roorkee report apart, the J-K government has failed to implement its own comprehensive 256-page report that was submitted in the legislative...

The Music Will Die

Veteran singers lament lack of patronage, demand a new cultural policy in the state to save Sufiana music Sufiana Music Will be no More Within Years : Veteran Singers Mukhtar Ahmed (Kashmir Images) They have been enthralling thousands with their soul-soothing voices;...