A Costly Recess
As around 160 thousand students are writing their examinations for three classes, Umar Khurshid revisits the state of education and the schooling in the last 100 days of the crisis that started with August 5, when the special status of Jammu and Kashmir…
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…
Breaking A Silence
Barely four days ahead of the platinum jubilee of the communication lockdown, when the phones returned to life, not every…
Political Winter
With the Lt Governor GC Murmu administration hunting for alternative accommodation to Kashmir’s detained political class, the winter chill is…
The Sweat Money
Managers of the Rs 4300 crore Provident Fund of the workers in Jammu and Kashmir’s private and public sector were…
Briefing (November 10-16, 2019)
GOA In Panaji, Kashmir’s last governor Satya Pal Malik is making news on Kashmir. He was shifted to the small…
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…
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…
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…
Daring Diplomacy?
Two non-descript NGOs run by shady managers flew 27 far-right European MPs to Delhi for what experts say, “controlling to…
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…