Torn Between Loyalties
South Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency has created precedence in the electoral history as it would go to polls in three phases. Shams Irfan visited the restive region that witnessed a chain of crisis in last three years to understand how its apparent volatility…
Anantnag Polls, Phase 3, Leg 1: The complete story
by Shams Irfan ANANTNAG: Fifteen minutes after former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti cast her vote at Bijbehara, supporters of her…
Anantnag Lok Sabha Seat: An election with many firsts
by Saima Bhat SRINAGAR: With polling held for two of three constituencies of Kashmir, the stage is set for the polling…
Jail Unrest?
Days after a fight between the jail officials and the prisoners in central jail Srinagar, a series of interventions started…
Cavemen In Folklore
The ground realities could be hugely different from what the TV cameras record. Masood Hussain details his first-hand account about…
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah has been Kashmir’s enigmatic and complex political leader who was as much the master of his persona…
Plebiscite And Poetry
Khaal Baub has been quite a phenomenon of the Plebiscite Front in South Kashmir’s Bijbehara belt. Days after Sheikh returned…
Guided By Flashlight
It was the camera flashlight that gave him a vision of his career. Umar Mukhtar met a young man, passionate…
Denied Basics
In a tragic incident, a pregnant lady was denied ambulance by Primary Health Centre, Kalaroos in frontier Kupwara district, which…
Syed Bashir Ahmad
In a significant move ahead of Lok Sabah polls in Anantnag constituency, former PDP MLA and Minister, Syed Bashir, who…
Improved Participation
by Sheikh Qayoom Parliamentary election 2019 in Srinagar was a welcome departure from the by-poll of 2017. Just 7.14 per…
Who Is The Asli Shera In Kashmir Politics?
by Meer Abass On the onset of election fever, political parties belonging to ruling classes use all kinds of tricks…
Can Kashmir Ever Create A World Class University?
by Umar Bashir “Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation’s standing worldwide… and our teachers know that” is…
Foremost economist and Jammu and Kashmir’s former finance minister Dr Haseeb A Drabu wrote a series of articles on the…
Halt Hokersar
Though the project is in its final stage of implementation to reduce the de-siltation, the famous Hokersar wetland requires immediate…
Xenophobic Outbreak
Faizan Ahmad, a student, passionate about journalism, writes his first-hand account about what happened and how it escalated and then…
A Brave Heart
By fishing out more than two dozen bodies and saving several men alive from different water bodies, Lelhar’s fisherman has…
Hoekh Suen Is Back
As better earning population is consuming fresh vegetables around the year pushing the traditional dried vegetables to history, a hospitality…
Keeping The Date
For managing 365 days and decorating the kitchen walls, Kashmir alone consumes almost three million wall calendars a year. Detailed…
Ladakh in J&K
More than 178 years of losing its sovereignty in a ruthless invasion, many years before Kashmir was sold, Ladakh had…
Ruined for life
After losing his eyesight to the pellets, a young man fought odds to come to the terms with enforced disability.…
The Bald Man and The Raantas
Raantas is Kashmir’s mythical lady demon that roams around during dark wintery nights. Kashmir folklore has countless stories about this…
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A Central Battle
The first phase of Lok Sabha polls witnessed 34 per cent plus participation but ended with a teenager’s killing. As…
Club Calling
As the interim leadership of Kashmir’s Aiwan-e-Suhafat – after putting in the basic spadework – announced the dates for an…