‘Our Demand Is Restoration Of Pre-August 5 Status’
Four-time lawmaker, who was recently appointed as the spokesman for the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami tells Yawar Hussain that the alliance is open to an engagement with Delhi. Kashmir Life (KL): New Delhi has now reached out to mainstream parties in J&K? How do…
Jammu Unhappy That Kashmir Dominates PM Modi’s All Party Meet
by Yawar Hussain SRINAGAR: Jammu based parties are unhappy with the invitation to more leaders from Kashmir based parties for…
Helping Neglected Genderqueers
by Minhaj Masoodi SRINAGAR: Palzun Help Foundation set up by a group of friends—Sunday organized a one-day medical camp at…
Why The Disappointing G-7 Summit Could Not Move An Inch Beyond The 3Cs?
by Asad Mirza Covid, China and Climate Change dominated the G-7 Summit. But overall the leaders were not able to…
Why Do Noah And Manu Look Like The Same Characters In History?
by Dr Qudsia Gani The aliens that are going to visit us in future have been prophesied both in Quran…
Asserting that nothing is decided as yet but even if the NC joins the Delimitation Commission, it will be for…
Yatra. Really?
Amarnath pilgrimage could undo the painstaking efforts to control the virus in Kashmir, writes Riyaz Wani With the annual Amarnath…
Pandemic And Pandits
The ongoing pandemic hit the migrant Kashmiri Pandit community in Jammu, UP and Delhi so harshly that many think Covid19…
Coexisting With Contagion
In the last more than a year, the people picked enough knowledge about the virulent and vile virus that it…
Do You Know When China Formally Got Involved In Kashmir?
by Mohammad Sayeed Malik Even over half a century later question remains unanswered as to why had the Kashmir leader…
The Security Tool
Rakesh Pandita’s killing has prompted police to bar the movement of the politicians and the protected persons without security clearance.…
Government Initiatives
Combating Covid19 Lt Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) 500-bedded Covid Hospital at Khonmoh, Srinagar.…
by Bilal Bahadur Gone are the days when Kashmir looked like a sprawling rice field. After the mass conversion of…
A Carriage Chronicle
The early twentieth century, horse-driven Tonga became the main public transport for Kashmir. Then the horses would come from Kabul…
Chenab’s Ababeel
Saifullah Bashir meets the group leader that oversees the Chenab region like a bird and tries everything to mitigate the…
Philanthropist To Core, Budgam Youth Helping People Amid Covid19
SRINAGAR: Syed Ali Asgar Razvi, the 30-year-old youth from the Magam area of Budgam district is an entrepreneur whose passion…
The Counter-Covid19 Movement
As the Covid-19 unleashes its carpet-bomb-morbidity in Kashmir, hundreds of individuals and groups have redoubled their efforts to restrict the…
Faith, Fast and Feast
What is the role of food in the month of fasting? Haseeb A Drabu professes that its epicurean aspects are…
Briefing June 13 – June 19, 2021
PULWAMA Police have booked three youngsters under the Public Safety Act (PSA) for ‘stone-pelting.’ Identified as Sameer Mushtaq Lone, Mudsir…
Meet Sports Philanthropist Syed Ali Asgar Razvi
by Shakir Ashraf SRINAGAR: Syed Ali Asgar Razvi, 30, who is sponsoring a cricket team, says helping someone achieve their…
Secret Dialogue?
It would be interesting to see how the back-channel engagement between India and Pakistan evolves in the weeks and months…
Two Videos, Two Stories
For the last many years, social media is triggering decision-making within the government and society. Last week demonstrated it yet…
A General Visit
Army chief General M M Naravane concluded his Kashmir visit on a positive note writes Zahoor Malik Army chief General…
The Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir that Harper Collins published last month is a stirring account of a…
Mission Kashmir
Last week when the film Mission Kashmir’s cast celebrated 20 years of the ‘landmark’ film, a federal investigator raided the…
Zaldagar 1865
Kashmir’s first labour unrest, more than 150 years ago, was the outcome of the accumulation of immense exploitation that Kashmir’s…
Understanding Ceasefire
Not a single shot was fired anywhere on the LoC after the two armies implemented the ceasefire on February 26…
Zoom Courts
Forced to go virtual, the courts in Kashmir found the going tough during the lock-down in 2020, reports Saima Bhat In…
SARFAESI Sales
Properties acquired by wilfully bank defaulters were always auctioned through protracted judicial processes, a system that SARFAESI law simplified. As…
Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935
Missionary educationist, Cecil Earle Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better…
The Tulip Hands
As thousands of people enjoy the colourful Tulips bloom in millions amid high-cost celebrations, the din prevents garden managers from…
The Mamata Message
Mamata Banerjee has soundly defeated the BJP by winning a landslide majority. And in doing so, she may have shown…
Bitter Harvest
The political turmoil of the past eighteen months has hit Kashmir’s apple industry hard. The entry of the NAFED and…
Virtual Trade
With the Covid-19 pandemic dictating a new regime, most of the activities of life are getting into virtual mode. Owing…
