Crime and Policing
The volatile political conditions of Kashmir have earned the state police not so pleasant an image, but efficient counterinsurgency and surveillance methods evolved over...
In crosshairs
No police chief has finished his innings in J&K in such a controversy as Kuldeep Khuda, one of the longest serving DGPs of the...
Mystery man
A man who is often spotted at elite gatherings in Mumbai is a Kashmiri who has had quite an obscure background. Sameer Yasir investigates...
Unpunishable By Law
It is a case where established murderers-men in uniform-of five innocent civilians of Islamabad area has remained un-punishable because of AFSPA, a law that...
STABILITY OF CORRUPTION
Last week the government forced 13 corrupt officials into premature retirement. But a look at the recent history of pervasive and systemic corruption at...
Fields of Addiction
A string of villages near Bijbehara rely primarily on fields of illegal crops for sustaining themselves. SHAMS IRFAN walks through one of these villages,...
SHROUDED IN SILENCE
Domestic violence in Kashmir seems to be on an increase. Apart from the social and cultural contexts in which it happens, political turmoil also...
WHO WAS YOUSUF SHAH?
The man, Syed Yousuf Shah, whose death in custody triggered a political storm in Jammu and Kashmir, had a very humble beginning. His personal...
10 Questions For The Chief Minister
Senior opposition leader and former deputy chief minster, Muzaffar Hussain Baig poses ten questions to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. As told to IKHLAQ QADRI,...
Stop, Don’t Slap Her
The Governor of Jammu and Kashmir gave his ascent recently to a law against domestic violence six years after the Indian Parliament passed a...
Lonely battle
A family that lost its only child last June is fighting to bring the killers to justice even after alleged threats and attempts to...
Faking a marriage
In the last three years, the police have unearthed a series of gangs that would ‘solemnise’ marriages with already married women. The ‘brides’ would...
Sacked
J&K is 'celebrating' 2011 as anti-corruption year, but the headless State Accountability Commission is mocking at the symbolism of India’s second most corrupt state....
Killed Before Birth
An alarming decrease in gender ratio in the state with only 859 females per 1000 males, experts warn of an impending social disaster. Syed...
The only job
Almost all the young men of a forest village in Baramulla district indulge in timber smuggling, while the dealers make huge profits they continue...