Bitter Harvest
The political turmoil of the past eighteen months has hit Kashmir’s apple industry hard. The entry of the NAFED and the import of duty-free Iranian apples through the Afghanistan route is being seen as interventions that will upset the apple-cart further, reports Yawar Hussain…
Why Imran Khan Skipped Taking Up Forced Cremation of Sri Lankan Muslims?
SRINAGAR: Visiting at a time when Sri Lanka is facing the music for cremating the Muslim victims of the Covid-19…
Baghat Attack: Is A Dress Code In Offing?
by Saifullah Bashir SRINAGAR: Within days after a militant moved his gun, hidden under his Pheran, and killed two cops…
Videos
Why Nobody Is Concerned About The Surging Diaper Pollution?
by Mukhtar Ahmad Farooqi As responsible citizens, we should either use alternatives until affordable environment-friendly nappies are readily available or…
Why A Computer And The Brain Is A Powerful Combo?
by Dr Qudsia Gani Einstein has said that computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate…
Dr Irfan Rashid, a Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Kashmir’s Department of Geoinformatics has the distinction of being…
Vaccine Hesitancy
As Covid-19 vaccination gathers pace in Kashmir, a section of people are sounding cautious not knowing that sixty per cent…
New Bird Flu
With people desperate for a vaccine to manage the Covid-19, a pandemic that has killed two million people worldwide, the…
Rudderless PAGD?
After securing a majority in around 13 of the 20 District Development Councils, the PAGD struggled to hold on to…
Sheikh’s UN Speech
Within four months after the tribal raids led to the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir and eventually triggered the first…
Government Initiatives February 21-27, 2021
Easing Industrialisation The Lt Governor Manoj Sinha led Administrative Council has approved a series of measures for simplifying the business…
Zoom Courts
Forced to go virtual, the courts in Kashmir found the going tough during the lock-down in 2020, reports Saima Bhat In…
SRINAGAR: With tables of ice and Samavar filled with hot Kehwa, the Igloo café in world-famous Gulmarg is drawing more…
A Carriage Chronicle
The early twentieth century, horse-driven Tonga became the main public transport for Kashmir. Then the horses would come from Kabul…
The Road Raahat
Frequent closure of highway leaves a flood of people stranded thus encouraging the residents to have structured and sustainable initiatives…
Warming Up Winter
As the temperature plummets across Kashmir, various individuals and social groups are helping the poor brave the bitter cold, reports…
A Virtual Yarbal
Part of folklore now, Yarbal in Kashmir was not the spot of gossip alone, it was a source of community…
Kashmir Wazwan
A Bollywood producer, currently in Srinagar, triggered a controversy by claiming that he has introduced veg-Wazwaan. He was trolled for…
Briefing – February 21 – 27, 2021
MUMBAI Marathi singer, Pranjali Newaskar has lent her voice to the popular Kashmiri prayer and lyrics by Mahjoor. So far,…
Cricket On Ice
Snow may be inherently immobilising but the enthusiastic cricketers in remote Gurez valley have been holding an ice cricket tournament…
A Biden’s World
As Joe Biden takes over as the new US president replacing Donald Trump, many US policies are expected to change. …
Melody In Music
Mixing modern melody with prose and poetry, Kashmir’s new-age singers and musicians have resurrected folk songs in a different way.…
Why #Uni4Kashmir?
The rudimentary shifts dictated by the Fourth Industrial Revolution has posed newer challenges to societies across the globe. Dr Mehboob Makhdoomi,…
The Western scholars to whom Kashmir shall perpetually remain indebted for their extensive research on history and culture of the…
Mission Kashmir
Last week when the film Mission Kashmir’s cast celebrated 20 years of the ‘landmark’ film, a federal investigator raided the…
Kashmir’s Map Shawls
Shawls woven in Kashmir were fashion statements on Paris streets early nineteenth century. But it took a long time for…
Amshipora Redux?
Days after the sleuths completed investigations in the July 2020 fake encounter involving the killing of three Rajouri labourers, the…
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…
History’s Major Snowfall
Every time there is a snowfall, the media chases the weatherman asking about the dates when it snowed more last…
Unseen Kashmir
As the Covid-19 dictated lockdown protracted from one week to another, restive youngsters moved out to explore the Kashmir they…
‘PAGD Hasn’t Done Anything Great Till Now’
PDPs Rajya Sabha member Mir Mohammad Fayaz tells Yawar Hussain KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Aspersions have been raised on the sincerity…
Orchard Massacres
The Forest Department issued notices to all the ‘encroachers’ everywhere. But a patch on Budgam-Pulwama border was the only place…
The Honey Money
As major honey brands were caught using imported adulterated material, Kashmir’s organic honey story could get an instant foothold in…
