Guns In The Government
As the gun battles were in focus in the last 30 years, a section of bureaucracy was arming the deep-pocketed criminals. Now the CBI...
Match-Makers Mobile
With the drop gates preventing the movement on roads and cell phones blocked, the Kashmir lockdown hit the basic institution of life. Umar Khurshid...
In A Mess
At a time when the businesses across Jammu and Kashmir are bleeding, the government is working overtime for managing afresh Rs 100000 crores of...
The Political Collapse?
History will remember 2019 as the rough year for politics in Kashmir. For the first time, both the faces of Kashmir’s ideologically driven politics...
Bleeding Business
More than 115 days after Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its distinction and statehood, when the businesses were evaluating the losses and exploring...
The Jail In Neighbourhood
As the UT administration shifted the detained political class from a Boulevard Hotel to the Lawmakers’ Hostel, apparently for the winters, their families were...
Justice Delayed
With the protesting Kashmir Bar Association permitting a limited number of its members to plead the emergency cases, the courts are mostly dealing the...
Hit Hard
Without phones, internet and transport, thousands of seriously ailing patients were the silent sufferers of the post-August lockdown, reports Aaqib Hyder
When Sara Begum, 58,...
The Low Footfall
After the government evacuated tourists at the peak of a successful tourist season in August, Umar Mukhtar sees no change on ground yet after...
A Costly Recess
As around 160 thousand students are writing their examinations for three classes, Umar Khurshid revisits the state of education and the schooling in the...
A Bloody Migration
Desperate apple growers and the manufactures invested lot of time and resource to get the workforce back to work. Then a series of attacks...
A State In Transition
After almost three months of lockdown, the state of Jammu and Kashmir finally was re-organised into a federally-ruled Union Territory. To be ruled by...
The Urdu Umpire
More than 130 years of being the official language of Jammu and Kashmir, Urdu’s fate hangs in balance as the downgraded state inches towards...
Breaking A Silence
Barely four days ahead of the platinum jubilee of the communication lockdown, when the phones returned to life, not every call was a happy...
Bloody Harvest
Unlike all other unrests that Kashmir witnessed since 1990, apple somehow escaped the crisis. In the wake of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s...
