Renewed Ceasefire
Surprising the strategic affairs community with its quiet diplomacy, rival armies of India and Pakistan announced a fresh ceasefire. The development was welcomed by everybody from the border villages to the UN and the White House. The initiative will require frequent monitoring and…
Two Toppers Tell Their Tales of Struggle And Success To Be Matriculates
by Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: The queries and anxieties of Kashmir’s tenth-graders were finally settled when the Jammu and Kashmir…
Not Blacklisted, Pakistan Continues To Be In FATF Grey List
SRINAGAR: As anticipated, the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has not blacklisted Pakistan. Instead, it has retained the ‘grey’…
Videos
Ceasefire: How Major Newspapers Commented On The Indo-Pak Breakthrough?
SRINAGAR: The Thursday announcement of the rival armies in India and Pakistan ceasing fire on the Line of Control (LoC)…
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…
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…
Plant Collectors In Kashmir
While studying Botany, students hardly spare a thought about the processes and the people who gave their lives to identify…
Bitter Harvest
The political turmoil of the past eighteen months has hit Kashmir’s apple industry hard. The entry of the NAFED and…
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…
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 28 – March 6, 2021
GULMARG Unlike previous years when the tourism industry in Kashmir suffered a severe dent, the tourist footfalls, mostly domestic came…
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…
Zoom Courts
Forced to go virtual, the courts in Kashmir found the going tough during the lock-down in 2020, reports Saima Bhat In…
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…
Rumblings Within PAGD
The grouping’s unity has come under fresh strain following apprehensions voiced about its functioning by some of the senior leaders,…
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…
