STC NEWS MONITORING DESKSRINAGAR, JUNE 30 (STC): Senior IPS officer Dr. Mahesh Dixit today took charge as the new Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), succeeding Tapan Kumar Deka. He is perhaps the first medical doctor to become head of the country’s premier intelligence agency.As already reported, Dixit is a 1993-batch IPS officer, and was…
The only question left is whether we have the backbone to fight it before it completely breaks us. Umair Ashraf Why is our valley slowly turning into an oncology ward?These aren’t just digits buried in a thick government file. They are our neighbors. Our relatives. Sometimes, the very people who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with us through…
A Father’s Love, Dementia, and the Conversations We Leave for Tomorrow Khurshid Ahmad Akhoon Some voices are not ignored because they are unimportant.They are ignored because we believe there will always be another chance to hear them.Only later does life teach us that silence often carries the loudest echoes. My father has always been a…
NEW DELHI, JUNE 29 (STC): India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri today dismissed reports of any official India-Pakistan Track II dialogue. He made it clear that the Government of India has neither participated in nor endorsed any such engagement.Responding to media reports, Misri said there is “nothing official” about the reported meeting, describing it as a…
STC NEWS DESKSRINAGAR, JUNE 29 (STC):A two-day buyer-seller event was inaugurated at SKICC by the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah here today. The event provided a global platform to local industrials where they have the opportunity to market their products directly to different parts of the world.While talking to reporters on the sidelines…
