OPINION: Political Accommodation Must Not Overshadow Governance
Ahmad Ayaz The much-awaited cabinet reshuffle in Jammu and Kashmir has taken place, with four legislators inducted into the Council of Ministers and Independent MLA Satish Sharma dropped. While the exercise may help the National Conference (NC) leadership manage competing aspirations within its ranks, the more important question is whether it will make any meaningful…
DATELINE: Kashmir’s Rulers, Lost Opportunities and the Perils of Political Complacency
When rulers become absorbed in their own priorities while the people struggle with theirs, history does not necessarily repeat itself; it finds new ways of delivering the same warning. Peerzada Masarat Shah History is rarely a mere chronicle of the past. It is often a warning to those who govern in the present. Kashmir, whose…
BJP’s Sunil Sharma predicts fall of Omar Abdullah government soon
STC NEWS DESKSRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 01 (STC): Strongly criticizing the National Conference-led government, Leader of Opposition in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly and senior BJP leader Sunil Sharma has claimed that the discontent within the party after the recent cabinet expansion could turn into a major political crisis in the coming days, which could endanger not…
Home Minister Amit Shah hits at Rahul Gandhi’s Delhi rally; calls it ‘rubbing salt on 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims’
STC NEWS DESKSRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 01 (STC): Strongly criticizing the rally organized by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi today, Home Minister Amit Shah said that holding such a political rally on the anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots is like rubbing salt in the wounds of the victims, who lost their loved ones and…
Kashmir is incomplete without Kashmiri Pandits, says LG Manoj Sinha
STC NEWS DESKSRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 01 (STC): Speaking about the literary consciousness, spiritual heritage and cultural splendor of Kashmir that cannot be imagined without the role of Kashmiri Pandits, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said that the dignified return of Kashmiri Pandit families is indispensable for preserving the cultural, spiritual and civilized heritage of…
