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Friday, April 19, 2024
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Interview

This is a simple Q and A on issues that matter with the experts and practitioners who hold the answers. Interviews are across the various facets of life including politicians, artists, businessmen, academics and social activists.

“For around 15 minutes, nobody knew who is where and who is doing what....

 State’s junior Home Minister Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo led the state government team to Gool that was at the peak of crisis. He spoke to...

“A decade ago could we imagine that a small projector and a laptop could...

Independent filmmaker Sanjay Kak of Jashn-e-Azadi fame tells Junaid Nabi Bazaz how his new film Red Ant Day which talks about Maoist struggle is...

“So, the main conflict, I would say, is here [Kashmir] – the demand for...

Kashmir is mired in a series of overlapping conflicts, rather than being a single issue to be solved. In an exclusive interview with Syed...

“JKCA told us not to involve more money”

In conversation with Syed Asma, owner Kanwal Tigers and CEO JKCPL Farooq Amin, claims that in one year’s time Kashmir will have its own...

“Umar-Omar accord not impossible”

Hoping for Umar-Omar accord for the common good of masses, Ali Mohammad Sagar, minister for rural development and panchayati raj, maintains that the age-old...

“We don’t have second line in direction, writing and production”

With more than four decades of experience of working with television and some popular drama serials to his credit, Shabir Mujahid, Deputy Director General...

‘Disunity is not in the nation’s interest’

Released after more than three months of captivity at Kot Bhalwal jail, Jammu and Kashmir National Front Chairman, Nayeem Khan, tells Junaid Nabi Bazaz...

“It is up to Omar Abdullah to get our power projects back”

Engulfed by a series of controversies including the PHE department's recruitment and procurement scam, senior Congress leader Taj Mohi-ud Din tells Saima Bhat that...

“I had tightened the noose around some people in the health department who are...

Caught in the controversy surrounding the purchase of spurious drugs supplied to various government hospitals in the state and blamed by his Congress colleague...

“With India, there will be a dignified coexistence”

Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Lone tells Junaid Nabi Bazaz that his party will enter into the J&K legislature after 2014 Assembly Elections and that...

“Barter trade takes place with Chinese in Ladakh. It is a fact”

Chief Executive Councilor of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh, Rigzin Spalbar tells Saima Bhat that barter trade with Chinese is a normal occurrence...

“Without Congress there will be no government in Jammu and Kashmir state”

With rumors of growing factionalism and charges of corruption against senior leaders afflicting the party before 2014 Assembly Elections, the recently elected JKPCC President...

“Omar Abdullah is a political nobody. He is like a clown, going around making...

In the run-up to 2014 Assembly Election in the state, PDP is hopeful of increasing its tally of seats in the state legislature. The...

“Maharaja Pratap Singh even banned burial of the dead”

Muhammad Siddiq Parray, the Grand Old Man of Sonawar, breathed his last on March 21. A witness to an eventful century of Kashmir’s history...

Tribal raids helped India and Pakistan to sideline people of Kashmir

Christopher Snedden whose book Kashmir: The Unwritten History was published by Harper Collins India is an old Kashmir expert. Before flying to Hong Kong...