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 a way-out, early snowfall interrupted the economic cycle and multiplied the deficit. As losses are mounting, Kashmir economy will…
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…
New Initiatives
New systems and rules are emerging in the twin UTs of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state, reports Tahir Bhat The…
A Model Wasted
Deep down south, the government invested heavily in creating a model health centre. As it is waiting inauguration, part of…
Briefing (December 01-07, 2019)
PAMPORE The bumper Saffron crop this season came with an interesting development – Kashmir’s monopoly over the costliest spice on…
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…
The Low Footfall
After the government evacuated tourists at the peak of a successful tourist season in August, Umar Mukhtar sees no change…
Costly Acquittals
In the 1996 Rajasthan bus-blast case, police booked, among others, four Kashmiris – arrested from Kathmandu and Gujarat. A trial…
A Bloody Migration
Desperate apple growers and the manufactures invested lot of time and resource to get the workforce back to work. Then…
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…
BJP’s New Tensions
Though the elections for the local bodies and Panchayats were considered a hugely partial exercise, at least in Kashmir, the…
The Urdu Umpire
More than 130 years of being the official language of Jammu and Kashmir, Urdu’s fate hangs in balance as the…
Science Behind Ramadan Fasting
by Dr Zeenat Farooq Apart from the spiritual experience that a person undergoes during Ramadan fasting, there are tremendous scientific…
The Second Hearing
The US Congress’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) hearing on Kashmir – Jammu and Kashmir in Context, was literally…
Hanging An Imposter
In 1859, the East India Company hanged a Jammu Faqeer in Sialkot for claiming to be a prophet. Its details…
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…