Srinagar, September 12(Scoop News)-Minister of State for Education, Science and Technology, Feroz Ahmed Khan inaugurated a 2-day State Level Consultation on Right to Education Act for Children in J&K at Gandhi Bhawan, University of Kashmir today. Vice-Chancellor, University of Kashmir, Prof. M. A. Sofi, Advisor, School Education, J&K Govt. Mohammad Rafi, Director School Education, Kashmir, […]
Rescuing the Sumatran Rhino: Fixing a fragmented population
Wildlife inventories can be a shocking reality check, especially when extinction looks near. Early this year, Sumatran Rhino conservationists were shocked when population estimates of Sumatran rhino dropped from 300 to less than 100. They called an emergency summit in April in Singapore because the population of about 80 in Sumatra is so fragmented by […]
Govt. enhancing Kashmir’s pain by repression: Mehbooba
Jammu, February 18 (Scoop News) – Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the Congress NC coalition was only enhancing the pain caused by the unholy haste and secrecy adopted in the execution of Mohammad Afzal Guru through its heartless response to people’s sentiment and use of brute force. In a statement condemning the death of […]
Religion, reason for gender bias
Religion, reason for gender bias By Abhishek Pandey There were three news reports in the newspaper last week which troubled my conscience. First, The editor Ravindra Kumar and publisher Anand Sinha of ‘The Statesmen’, a Kolkata based old English Indian newspaper, were punished for reproducing an article because it hurt the religious […]
Haditha Gets Compared To My Lai Massacre As Its 40th Anniversary Approaches
In the case of what had happened in Iraq in the recent months such as Haditha, many could call the killing of Iraqi civilians as a massacre. However, Haditha has not been branded as a massacre under the simple term of “massacre.” Today, many call the deaths of Iraqi civilians in Haditha another “My Lai.” […]
United Nations Security Counsel Paves Way for U.S. Invasion of Iran
It seems that the time span between history repeating itself is getting much shorter. We can recall the United Nation’s imposing strong sanctions and requirements against the nation of Iraq. Now we have the U.N. Security Council passing further sanctions and restrictions against Iran. The vote to impose stiffer sanctions and regulatory requirements against […]