Kashmir Life
PMRP: Seven Years After
When Dr Manmohan Singh announced Prime Ministers’ Reconstruction Plan in November 2004, it envisaged projects worth Rs 24,025.55 crores.
Now it costs a whopping Rs...
Valley’s Pace Express’ Forced To Derail
There is lot of debate why Kashmir's best cricketers were dropped, reports Gowhar Geelani
Removing the 'butcher of Najafgarh' out early is any bowler's dream....
Wealth of Faith
Religious endowments and various Trusts managing them for the people of different faiths often function as autocratic systems. But as Hussain Danish reports, some...
Languages Of Faith
Languages can be windows into cultures as well as tools of influencing belief and behaviour. Shazia Yousuf takes a look at who is attracted...
Google Goes Gaga in Kashmir
When a Google team visited Kashmir last week, many young would-be entrepreneurs felt their e-dreams energized. Shams Irfan reports on what the Google-power visit...
BURIAL OF A MURDER
At the peak of Amarnath land row in 2008, a trucker’s murder provoked the historic long march ‘Muzaffarabad Chalo’ for neutralizing impact of an...
Twenty Years After
Last week, the SHRC recommended a fresh investigation into Kunan mass rapes and compensation for the victims passing serious strictures against the investigators. Mudasir...
Ability Amplified
At first glance, Javed Tak would seem like a man with a disability, a man who has resigned himself to a life of pity...
Google searching Kashmir
A high ranking team from Google, invited by Mercy Corps is coming to Kashmir to share entrepreneurial and digital skills. Tasavur Mushtaq reports
Kashmir is often...
‘Deceit’ of Dialogue
New Delhi has often responded to political crises in Kashmir by renewing official and track-II dialogue with separatists. This approach slowly graduated from arbitrary...
A Changed PSA
Last week, the cabinet approved five amendments to the J&K Public Safety Act, a law many think is ruthless and misused. The changed PSA...
Plundering Heritage And Future
Famous Saffron fields of Kashmir have been under an onslaught. Shams Irfan investigates the archaeological diversity hidden underneath the spice fields, and their shocking fate.
As soon as...
Handshake Under Pir Panchal
As Railways blasts through the Pir Panchal mountain range to create India’s longest tunnel, Banihal will be accessible to Baramulla in less than 90...
‘Framed’ By Paying Guest
A medical student from Kishtwar studying in Bangladesh, Wasim is suspected of involvement in the Delhi High Court blast. He and his family have...
A Tradition Survives
The ‘bribe for berth’ case involving Kashmir’s first family is nothing new. It is just a standard practice of how politics has operated here...
