Corona Carnage?
In comparison to the first 100 days, Kashmir doubled up the Covid-19 body-bags in succeeding 25 days. Now more die young without co-morbidities. As the administration is gradually zooming out of the scene in an unlocked Kashmir, doctors talk of the dread they…
Budgam’s Tosa Maidan Victim Still Motionless After Marathon Surgery
by Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: The carefree life of a teenager Muhammad Asif, 13, was cut short when he landed…
4 UN Rapporteurs Seek Details of 16 Arrests and Torture Cases
SRINAGAR: Post-August 4, four United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs have made public their third communication forwarded to New Delhi, since…
Why July 13 Decision-making Is A Bid To Erase Inherited History?
by Haseeb A Drabu Today was the Yaum-e-Shuhda. This day, 89 years back, twenty-two people protesting the trial of an…
Why Poet Iqbal Was Always Concerned For Kashmir?
by Sameer UlHaq There is no denying the fact that Allama Iqbal devoted his entire life for Kashmir’s political and…
Doc, Heal Thyself
The health givers are messiahs in their own right because they help people to live longer, reduce their pain and…
Those Cholera Carnage’s
Unlike many other epidemics, the Cholera has been Kashmir’s resident killer for most of the nineteenth century when the bacteria…
A scholar of Central Eurasian and Tibetan history Prof Siddiq Wahid, the former Vice-Chancellor of Islamic University of Science and Technology, tells Masood…
In No Go Area
Unshakable faith in God and compassion for the ailing inspires Jameel Ahmad Digoo, an ambulance driver of the health department,…
The Covid Collaterals
As a person tests positive for Covid-19, the entire eco-system for the family and the villages’ changes abruptly. Authorities take…
Unanswered Knocks
Closure of the State Human Rights Commission has deprived victims of human rights violations in Kashmir of their only shot…
A Delayed Darbar
The government offices are finally shifting to Srinagar and the civil secretariat will open early July in Srinagar. Employees will…
by Tasavur Mushtaq SRINAGAR: A day after the killing of BJP leader, his father and brother in north Kashmir’s Bandipora,…
Kashmir’s Mask Manager
At the peak of despair when people were desperately seeking face-masks as the minimal basic defence against the crippling virus,…
Keeping The Commitment
In a remote village in Anantnag, a doctor is working among nomads to help them face up to pandemic, reports Umar…
Adoring Alternatives
In turbulent times, loved ones make things easier. In hostile situations and enforced disconnect – as was the case post-August…
Rendered Vulnerable
Families who lost their homes to gun battles in recent days are shelter-less and vulnerable to the spread of Covid-19,…
Culture Warriors
Farzana Nissar treks deep-south to report the lonely fight of a peripheral theatre cluster to preserve Bhand Pather The road…
Briefing July 12 – July 18, 2020
USA A Kashmiri couple Dr Khurshid Guru and his wife Dr Lubna Guru, are in the process of buying a…
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…
Kabul and Kashmir
As Trump administration finally shook hands with the Taliban in Doha and promised to withdraw within 14 months after 18…
Pulitzer, Finally
Kashmir media has been a harried lot throughout. As the pressures mounted in recent days with cases under harsh laws…
Fatwa For A Mask
by Javaid Iqbal In the coming days, Kashmir will witness a surge of cases, as the lockdown is lifted. Although there…
The ongoing Sino-Indian tensions are primarily focussed around Daulut Beg Uldi, a high mountain plateau almost equidistant to the Karakoram…
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…
China And The UT
After Delhi undid the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and reorganised the state into two federally governed Union Territories…
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…
Surviving Epidemics
Most of the epidemics that Kashmir history has witnessed were imported and they thrived on unhygienic environs, indifferent rulers and…
Quarantine Hotels
Without tourists since August 5, 2019, Kashmir hoteliers opened doors to shelter the Covid-19 suspects for mandatory quarantine. Initially, most…
Is PDP Dead?
With almost half of her cabinet and a huge section of lawmakers out of the PDP, will the Mufti Sayeed’s…
High Density Culture
Apple apart, Kashmir has created a demonstration orchard in Srinagar outskirts where some of the best high-density fruits are grown,…
Crucial Service
With a lot of enterprises emerging on social media and the lockdown preventing consumers from moving around too much, Kashmir…