Dr Umer Iqbal The internet hums back to life, yet floodwaters still refuse to retreat from people’s homes. Screens glow again, but living rooms remain submerged. It is a reminder, stark and wet, that while wires can be repaired in hours, wounds inflicted upon nature linger for years. We lived through the 2014 floods. We…
Peerzada Masarat Shah In Jammu and Kashmir, education has rarely been a quiet, neutral space for learning. Instead, schools have become battlegrounds where politics, ideology, and power overshadow blackboards and textbooks. The latest episode in this long-running drama is the government’s decision to take over 215 schools run by the Falah-e-Aam Trust (FAT). On the…
One has to be an enlightened consumer. This is the only way to escape from the clutches of profiteers. Sajjad BazazThe frozen meat scandal has once again exposed that profiteering continues to plague our business environment in different layers. The way business is practiced in our region (J&K) cuffs largely of dishonesty and can easily…
Let’s also share the gift of resilience. The quiet kind that grows when we let go just a little and let children find their own way through the snow. Gowhar BhatIt starts with love. Most things do. A parent watches their child fall and rushes to pick them up before they hit the ground. They…
Mushtaq Bala SRINAGAR, AUGUST 18 (STC): A series of digital breakdowns in Jammu and Kashmir has sparked widespread concern across the startup community, business sector, and the general public, exposing serious cracks in the Union Territory’s e-governance system. The crisis first came to light in July when the J&K Single Window Clearance Portal—touted as a…
