The Rasana Tragedy
In the gut-wrenching trail of the kidnapping, gang-rape and murder of Asifa, the minor Bakerwal girl from Kathua, the most heinous was the motive. The upper castes in Jammu’s Hindu heartland, cutting across the political divide, rallied behind the rapists, and wanted to overrun the established systems of investigation and…
Juvenile culling?
The most vulnerable section of the demography in a conflict situation is women. But children also have their share of…
Khudwani Encounter
All the militants escaped but the gun battle left behind razed homes and painful memories. Saqib Mir spent a day…
It has been a long time since 1995 when Mathoora Masoom cracked Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS). Before taking over as…
Nun Chai Samavar
Now when electric power and a whole range of innovations have started impacting the traditional ways of cooking and serving…
Rapes Aren’t Inevitable
By Khursheed Wani Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s latest Delhi visit was exclusively aimed at seeking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s practical…
Gutangoo, Laam Encounter: The Complete Story
SRINAGAR: Four Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants, one policeman and an Army man were killed in an encounter that raged between a…
Kashmiri Scientist Behind Major Breakthrough In Cancer
by Masood Hussain SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri medical researcher has led a groundbreaking intervention that will help to detect the prostate cancer…
Romancing the Lake
by Mihir Patilhande Srinagar’s jewel, Dal Lake is the major tourist attraction in the city centre. When you think of the…
Hang Till Death
As Chief Minister announced a mandatory capital punishment in cases of rape of children, Saima Bhat reports the two cases…
Trek to Yarkand
In July 1846, almost four months after British sold Kashmir to Gulab Singh, a Kashmiri nobleman Ahmed Shah Nakshahbandi submitted…
Speaking To The Car
Though part of his routine University curriculum, Anwar Naseer explored the possibility of using speech to command a car and…
Ominous Trends?
Between the three gun-battles that dominated Kashmir last week, there were interactions between two parents and their about-to-be-killed militant sons.…
Trading Blows
Kashmir’s trade and industry is confronted with certain basic issues. But the situation in which it operates for the last…
Model Self Help
A specially-abled man, fought odds to survive but struggled to create a difference for the people rendered imperfect by birth…
The Ocean Thirst
The concrete jungle of Srinagar may be bustling with activity as it expands far and wide. But Zamir Ahmad reports…
Rusting Lenses
More than six months after freelance news-photographer Kamran Yousuf returned home, Muhammad Younis could not get much from the reticent…
Maqbool Sahil [1968 – 2018]
by Khursheed Wani A few days ago, I was rushing towards a TV studio to conduct a current affairs programme…
