Coronavirus: Are We Ready?
Poor infrastructure, lack of critical equipment for doctors, and poor coordination between government and experts indicates Kashmir is not as ready as the officials claim, reports Shams Irfan A week back when workers from Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), came out wearing identical oversized raincoats…
Coronavirus: As Foreign-Returned Play Truant, Kashmir’s Plague Battle Weakens
by Saima Bhat SRINAGAR: As Kashmir reported its first Coronavirus death on Thursday and added six more to the list…
Coronavirus: Stranded in Kyrgyzstan, Kashmiri Students Demand Evacuation
by Saima Bhat SRINAGAR: As the Coronavirus pandemic has engulfed more than 190 countries, sealed borders and suspended air traffic…
Why Is Jammu and Kashmir’s First UT Budget Different?
by Haseeb A Drabu The first budget for the Union Territory of J&K presented by Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman reflects…
Coronavirus: Why Should We Avoid Believing Rumours?
by Ikhlaq Qadri It happened in the dead of night, dark and daunting. Rumours flew across the Kashmir that Thursday,…
Whither Job?
Kashmir is grappling with rising joblessness, but there are fewer government jobs and recruiting agencies are in a limbo, reports …
Briefing (March 15-21, 2020)
OKHLA Delhi Police arrested a Shivpora (Srinagar) couple for their alleged ISIS links. Identified as Jahanzaib Sami and Hina Bashir…
Doctors in Kashmir think their experience of tackling swine flu a decade back will aid them in fighting Coronavirus, reports…
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…
Kashmir’s Internet Exodus
Almost six-month-long internet shutdown led to the migration of businesses, students, research scholars, outside the valley.they had to uproot their bases…
Choking Lives
by Shams Irfan A few decades back who would have imagined that even small villages dotting the picturesque valley of Lolab…
In anticipation of Donald Trump’s Delhi visit, Congressional Research Service (CRS), a private entity working for the US Congress on…
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…
Dying Art Of Papiermachie
Dwindling economic utility of the art is forcing artisans in Kashmir villages to give up on it, reports Samreena Nazir…
A Dream Painter
A Kashmiri family adopted an abandoned minor girl in Bangalore and brought her up for two decades. Now, restricted to…
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…
Davinder Details
Less than a fortnight after his arrest with top militants, new revelations suggest more than what Kashmir knows, reports Saima…
Benchmarking Phase
As the hearing of a number of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 resumed, the Supreme Court reserved the…
Culture Warriors
Farzana Nissar treks deep-south to report the lonely fight of a peripheral theatre cluster to preserve Bhand Pather The road…
Omar, Mehbooba, And PSA
UT administration’s invoking of the Public Safety Act (PSA) has triggered a lot of heat and storm. It is now…
The Low Footfall
After the government evacuated tourists at the peak of a successful tourist season in August, Umar Mukhtar sees no change…
Released Not Freed
Even after moving out of the special jails and from the home detentions, Kashmir politicians will be haunted by the…
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Growing Money
Nursery business has become a major source of livelihood in several Kulgam villages, reports Samreena Nazir On a frozen morning…
Sand Storm
At the peak of internet blockade, UT administration e-auctioned around 100 sand blocks along the Jhelum river and some of…