Editorial
Cold Welcome
With next tourism season just a few months away the big question remains: are we prepared to host a million tourists? Or more...
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Industry Incentives
In the various debates revolving around GST implementation in J&K, apprehensions were expressed by the industry regarding continuation of tax exemptions, available to...
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Vikas’s Flip Side
Development, off late, has become a buzz word for governments in Delhi and Srinagar. The present dispensation at the centre came to...
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Repo rate change
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut REPO rate by 25 bps (0.25%) to 6 per cent in its third Bi-monthly Monetary Policy...
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Unlock Jamia
In order to ensure that the Friday passes off peacefully, the governance structure has taken a completely extremist approach: to keep the Jamia...
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Press Council Visit
Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) was correct in suggesting the Press Council of India (PCI) that the institution must make efforts and salvage...
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Amarnath tragedy
Kashmir, in a way, has been into mourning for a long time now. It has already a generation of its population in its...
It is our year NINE
Kashmir boasts of more than 1500 years of recorded history. Pandit Kalhana, who wrote his chronicle Rajatarangini, somewhere in twelfth century, dominates the narrative...
Dear Readers!
After the on-going crisis started early last month, this is the fifth issue that is in your hands. The irregularity with which we are...
Don’t Preach
Assuming that Ms Mufti is naive to rub people of her state the wrong way every time she makes a public appearance is wrong....
Rationalize MLA Emoluments
The only issue that echoes a massive consensus and cohesion in J&K’s bicameral legislature is the wages of the lawmakers. Every time, the issue...
Building Chaos
Post 2014 floods, apart from managing livelihood crisis, the biggest challenge faced by Kashmir was: how to undertake massive reconstruction and rebuilding the damaged...
Pass it On
Unlike other Muslim majority places of the world, Ramazan doesn’t come with a bang in Kashmir. It rather sneaks in silently past mighty Himalayas,...
A High Aim
Government budgets are normally part of the economic spaces of the states but in resource-deficient places like J&K, the government continues to be the...
Polluted Board
J&K and Kashmir especially is one of the fragile ecological zones that has emerged as the new crucible of climate change. Its closed environment,...