Covid-19: 1430 Deaths After
Seven months into the Coronavirus pandemic, Jammu and Kashmir is struggling to cope with the rising number of infections and deaths. With winter approaching, the government needs to get its act right before infections multiply causing more deaths, reports Umar Mukhtar while assessing…
Alleging Attack, SRO Kashmir Halts Oxygen Supply To Covid-19 Patients
by Hirra Azmat SRINAGAR: SRO Kashmir, a prominent Kashmir NGO, which has acted a saviour in difficult times for the Covid-19…
Won’t Raise Any Other Flag Till J&K’s Flag, Constitution Is Returned: Mehbooba Mufti
by Saifullah Bashir and Shakir Ashraf SRINAGAR: In her first press conference after being released from detention, former Jammu and…
Videos
Why It Is Time For A Rethink In PAGD?
by Haseeb A Drabu While its many distinct and distinctly different parts have shared history, treacherous and torturous as it…
Why The Test For The Kashmiri Leadership Has Begun?
by A G Noorani The alliance must draw up a programme for attending to the needs of the common man…
A Specialty Registrar Doctor in Psychiatry in the hospitals of Oxford Deanery, Dr Shah Tarfarosh is an Oxford University post-graduate…
Back to Cycling
Protracted lockdowns have increased sedentary lifestyle forcing the new generation to embrace cycling to manage part of the obesity load.…
Unmasked, Literally
Refusal to follow safety protocols by the people and lax enforcement of the law by the administration is behind the…
Deed And Declaration
In the new dispensation cranked up by the centre after Article 370 decision, all the PAGD like organization’s moves have…
1947: Kashmiris In Amritsar
For most of the history especially after Sikhs replaced Afghans in Srinagar, most of the migrants from Kashmir were making…
Roshni’s Load Shedding
The High Court verdict on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) brought forth the serious crises the 2001 Roshni Scheme had.…
Paying For Possession
The Ministry of Home Affairs has delegated the authority to impose and collect the property tax on urban and suburban…
SRINAGAR: Khawaja Digar, a special prayer, was on Wednesday offered at the Naqashbandh Sahib (RA) shrine in Downtown with hundreds…
Highway Helpers
The road connecting Kashmir with the rest of the world is tricky and unstable. It turns bloody on the drop…
Knots In The Yarn
Dilshada earned livelihood selling her work at exhibitions outside Jammu and Kashmir. But she lost everything to 2014 floods. Before…
Return of The Native
Mohit Bhan, a migrant Kashmiri Pandit, quit an MNC in Mumbai and returned home to be a political worker. A…
Elderly Burdens?
Invariably the elder brothers in most of the families contribute significantly in bringing up and educating the younger siblings besides…
Culture Warriors
Farzana Nissar treks deep-south to report the lonely fight of a peripheral theatre cluster to preserve Bhand Pather The road…
Briefing – October 18-24, 2020
SRINAGAR Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha is doing his best to convey that he means business. The latest is that he…
Khelo India In The Time Of Corona
Umar Mukhtar In times of Coronovirus when England Cricket Board (ECB) has decided that its players would not shake hands…
Red Army and Taliban
At a time when the South Asian diplomacy would remain preoccupied with contesting narrative in the United Nations, new situations…
A Tragic Death
Journalist Javaid Ahmad dies of sudden cardiac arrest while on way to his office, Umar Mukhtar, his friend writes In…
The Charity Debate
by Riyaz Wani The past four months have witnessed Kashmiris donating generously to poor people asking for alms online, in many…
The trek to Gilgit is etched in Kashmir’s psyche because of the Beagar envisaging capturing of young Kashmiris and forcing…
Kashmir’s Peter Dinklage
Tariq Mir has earned fame and a role in a Salman Khan starrer for being a look-alike of the Hollywood…
Kashmir’s Map Shawls
Shawls woven in Kashmir were fashion statements on Paris streets early nineteenth century. But it took a long time for…
Machil Moorings
For most of Kashmir, Machil is a border sector where the rival armies shell each other’s positions. Mahmood Ahmad, who…
Benchmarking Phase
As the hearing of a number of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 resumed, the Supreme Court reserved the…
Stressed Assets Doubled
As the regulator’s restructuring plan envisaged multiple riders, post-August 5, data indicates that Kashmir has doubled its impaired assets in…
A Galwan Story
Galwans’ or Kashmir’s horse-lifters are one of the least studied and controversial tribes that dominated the narrative post-Mughal annexation of…
Mini Kashmir In Mountains
Far away from Srinagar is a little Kashmir in Kishtwar shrouded in clouds between Kashmir and Jammu. Administratively part of…
Gupkar: What Next?
The coming together of six Kashmir based parties on the reading down of Article 370 surprised all, especially New Delhi.…
High Density Culture
Apple apart, Kashmir has created a demonstration orchard in Srinagar outskirts where some of the best high-density fruits are grown,…
Locked Down, Jobless
As the counter pandemic lockdown prolongs, thousands of people in unorganised and transporter, retail and services sectors are literally jobless.…