Category Archives: Governance
‘SEZ approval process to go online from October’
Getting approvals for setting up units in SEZs will be done electronically from next month – a move which will help entrepreneurs reduce transaction costs, a senior Commerce Ministry official said today.
‘Developing countries be responsible for themselves’- obama
US President Barack Obama has said that developing nations would have to help themselves and not completely depend on aid from developed world, which itself is struggling with financial crisis.
Kashmiris feeling alienated from rest of India: MP
A sense of alienation is pervading the strife-torn Valley and the Kashmiri youth is haunted by the spectre of unemployment, a member of the all-party delegation that recently visited the border state said today.
Agitating Jats vow to disrupt CWG
Even as the Haryana government claims to have brokered peace with protesters in the state seeking inclusion in OBC list, members of the Jat community on Thursday threatened to disrupt the supply of essential commodities, including milk, to the national … Continue reading
Experts speak of satellite towns to ease pressure on metros
The future of metropolitan India lies in the creation of completely new urban centres, coupled with development of satellite towns around existing metros as one cannot run away from the fact that development is bound to happen, said experts in … Continue reading
India, Pak back to square one on J&K
Forget those tennis volleys; the verbal salvoes have returned. India and Pakistan have moved back to their 20th century positions on Kashmir, virtually erasing a decade of incremental progress that had brought the contentious issue off the boil and closer to resolution.
Caste Census: The Road Ahead
Having announced that caste will indeed be counted in the Census of 2011, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is busy demonstrating once again the crucial difference between taking a decision and acting decisively. The sudden agreement arrived at in … Continue reading
As the Valley implodes, people wonder where are the leaders they voted for
BY ZAHID RAFIQ EID HELD up a harsh spotlight to the political landscape of the Valley last week, highlighting three months of protests, strikes and curfew in Kashmir. Even as lakhs, led by Hurriyat stalwart Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, prayed at the … Continue reading
Omar’s government is self-serving. Kashmir deserves better
ON SUNDAY, a day after Kashmiris celebrated Eid peacefully on a day that remained unmarred by confrontations with the police, the government of Jammu and Kashmir clamped down the most draconian curfew the Valley has seen in more than two … Continue reading
Saving Kashmir
The visit of the all-party delegation to Jammu & Kashmir has generated hope and the expectation that it may still be possible to redeem the situation. The immediate task is now for New Delhi to move from the symbolic to the … Continue reading