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Policy

The Reservation Riddle

With the reservation asthmatic being reworked in Jammu and Kashmir, more than half of the admissions in professional courses, government jobs and promotions will...

Remodelling Universities 

A draft bill is making sweeping changes in the system of managing the universities in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Yawar Hussain The newly formulated Jammu and...

Old Taxes Return

In the forward-looking GST regime, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has revived an abolished tax that is expected to be collected for the last...

Understanding The Proposal

With its proposals triggering a lot of heat and dust in Jammu and Kashmir, the Delimitation Commission is expecting an extension. Khalid Bashir Gura...

Dubai Details

The liberal industrial policy has led to the acceptance of around Rs 50K crore investment proposals in less than a year, of which Rs...

Consumed Careers

Successive governments have mindlessly “hired” people on an ad-hoc, provisional and temporary basis. They keep the government’s service delivery show going on at almost...

Probing A Secret

For the first time in decades, the federal investigators are probing the secret fund, triggering discussions across Jammu and Kashmir, reports Tahir Bhat After remaining...

Developmental Democracy?

The Naya Kashmir of the twenty-first century is “by the corporation, of  the corporation, and for the corporations", writes Haseeb A Drabu After decisively changing...

Paying For Possession

The Ministry of Home Affairs has delegated the authority to impose and collect the property tax on urban and suburban areas and people are...

Residency To Reservations

After being legally protected for 108 years, Kashmiris find themselves out in the open as reservation rules replace  Residency rights. Haseeb A Drabu analyses the legal,...

Jammu’s Alternating Narratives

After the gruesome Kathua tragedy, almost everybody is asking: what is happening in Jammu? And why is it happening at all? Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal...

New Payment System

With the curtains falling on the archaic treasury system in J&K and Payment & Accounts Office taking over, In this curtain raiser, Tasavur Mushtaq...

Redefining Demography

If J&K loses its battle in the Supreme Court over the new minority debate, Muslims will lose a slew of benefits that come to...

Missing Moneybags

State and the central governments would massively invest in incentives to the manufacturing sector, a process that GST has interrupted. As the policymakers insist...

New City Set-up

Messed by trash and waste for generations over the decades, capital Srinagar city have grown haphazardly with clear lack of developmental forecasting. As J&K...