Challenges Facing Women Entrepreneurs

Wajahat offers a short synopsis of challenges faced by women entrepreneurs, but glosses over a key hurdle – Kashmiri women are unable to secure credit without a male co-signer  (Mr. Wajahat Hussain Mattoo is Coordinator at the Jammu & Kashmir...

Education Without Learning

Ishfaq wonders if enough is being done to bring about improvement in the quality of education (Syed Ishfaq Noor is a teacher at the Government Middle School in Mir Mohalla Hygam Zone, Sopore.)  Towards Quality Education Quality education is possible when academic...

Where the Savior is the Criminal

Pandits are saying that under the guise of “public good”, J&K Government is grabbing ancestral land of Pandits and provide token or no compensation in return Govt Itself Involved in Grabbing Land Belonging to Community: KPs Jammu: Ridiculing the...

Development or Defacement of the City?

A Kashmiri architect/planner based in the USA, offers his perspective on infrastructure development plans for Srinagar as proposed by the Government, and requests readers to provide inputs to the funding agency and the project organization Defacing the City Rafique A....

Sops for the Elites

Ashraf feels that excessive investment in tourism is misplaced and the J&K Government needs to put its money in activities that enhance state’s GDP. He should know (Mr. Mohammad Ashraf, 68, was born and raised in Srinagar. He attended the S.P. High School...

As Rabid as Dog Menace on Our Streets

Ashraf is talking about corruption in Kashmir, and he calls political corruption as the mother of all corruptions (Dr. Mirza Ashraf Beg, 71, was born in Sarnal, Anantnag. He did his primary schooling at the Primary Hanfia School in Anantnag and completed his F. Sc....

Srinagar Enters the 20th Century

So what if it is only a century behind? A bigger question is will it really happen? Lead story followed by an editorial in the Rising Kashmir  Srinagar to Get 4 Traffic Signals by First Week of May Rising Kashmir News  Srinagar: The summer capital is all set...

J&K Has No Fire Safety Act

The Kashmir Monitor makes a frightening revelation – hospitals and other public building may have inoperable fire-fighting equipment. Report followed by an editorial  JK has no Fire Safety Act  Firdous Hassan  Srinagar: While the fire service week...

An Annual (Meaningless) Ritual

The World Hemophilia Day has come and gone, and Kashmir’s civil society, after doing its once-a-year ritual, will ignore the topic until the next anniversary day. Two reports marking this year’s ritual (er …. anniversary)  Govt Criticized Over...