Frozen Photos
With only BJP contesting the Block Development Council (BDC) polls, the politics of Jammu and Kashmir is frozen in time. Though the government indicated that the gradual release of political beings will undo the nine-week thaw, there has not been anything other than…
Kashmir Crisis Spills To Third Month
by Tahir Bhat SRINAGAR: With Kashmir getting into the third month of the crisis triggered by the August 5 decision…
Kishtwar Accident: The Complete Story
SRINAGAR: Kishtwar township has gone instantly into mourning and is closed after the more than 35 people including minors and women…
Blockade Devastation
Switching off the internet and mobile communication has not hit the software development and BPO alone but has rendered thousands…
Lending: Managing Price, Risk
Credit in conflict areas is expensive because it involves risk. But the government can rediscover its subsidies set up and…
The New Volunteers
Watching the farmers facing a crisis in paddy harvesting, groups of well educated youth started helping them volunatrilty and the…
Briefing (October 13-19, 2019)
BEIJING For most of the last week, the tension in Delhi’s diplomatic circles was if at all Chinese President Xi…
An unknown Englishman has penned in his peculiar language his long trek from Shimla to Srinagar via Tibet on foot…
M S Dhoni
After team India’s World Cup 2019 journey ended at the semi-final level, speculations were ripe that Mahender Singh Dhoni, the…
Golf Monopoly Ends
Over the years, Jammu and Kashmir has invested huge money in a network of golf, a luxury sport, but the…
Kashmir’s cricket star Parvez Rasool inspired an entire generation of youngsters to dream big. But lack of infrastructure and infighting in Jammu…
Bad Times?
In the last 40 years, the Kashmir government changed three sets of clocks on Srinagar’s landmark Ghanta Ghar, but none…
Grounded On Water
The abrupt August 4, order asking tourists and pilgrims to leave Kashmir marked the end of a busy tourist season.…
Costly Acquittals
In the 1996 Rajasthan bus-blast case, police booked, among others, four Kashmiris – arrested from Kathmandu and Gujarat. A trial…
Blood In Hunger
After many years, the Muslim month of fasting did not witness any cessation of hostilities between militants and the security…
Why Trump Talked Kashmir In His Kabul Talk?
by Sanjay Kapoor The strenuous efforts on the part of the Indian foreign office to show that Prime Minister Narendra…
What Is A Judge’s Role In Juvenile Delinquency?
by Junaid ul Islam Over the last three decades, serious violent offences by youth under eighteen years of age have…
Low Poll Heroics
In the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls that gave Narendra Modi a Himalayan mandate, Jammu and Kashmir also sent six representatives…
Hanging An Imposter
In 1859, the East India Company hanged a Jammu Faqeer in Sialkot for claiming to be a prophet. Its details…
Science Behind Ramadan Fasting
by Dr Zeenat Farooq Apart from the spiritual experience that a person undergoes during Ramadan fasting, there are tremendous scientific…
Gulmarg To Geneva
With the rival armies engaged in an eyeball to eyeball confrontation on Kashmir borders, Indian and Pakistani diplomats are busy…
The Haj Economy
Almost every year, more than 30,000 Muslims go on Haj and Umrah pilgrimages from Jammu and Kashmir and spend more…
PHOTO ESSAY
Female Hikers
Boys have all the fun everywhere, especially in conservative societies. A group is trying to help girls to go on…
Deconstructing Modi 2.0
by Masood Hussain Narendra Modi’s victory in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections is not an ordinary one. It is a…