Kashmir Life
Just an FIR
Teengar Tufail Matoo was killed after being hit by a police teargas shell, triggering a cycle of protest and killings in Kashmir. Tufail’s family had to struggle hard, just to lodge an FIR. Aliya Bashir reports.
Priority Sector Lending: First Six Month Report
Against a target of providing Rs 2820.91 crore credit to 207941 eligible individuals across J&K in 2010-11under the priority sector lending, the banking sector...
Fun Face of Kashmir
What can be more rewarding for an actor than people remembering him for a role he played. Sumayyah Qureshi talks to the most known...
Distortion of History
Archival evidence suggests that Indo-China border dispute have no roots in history and old maps were burnt in the Ministry of External Affairs to...
A Bagful Of Protest
Stone pelting may be the most talked about form of protest in Kashmir but it is the not the only one. Kashmiris have used...
Special Police Officials (SPO)
SPOs are one of the many extra-constitutional structures that state’s policymakers devised during 1995’s gubernatorial regime. They are youth who are engaged at the...
Systemic Disability
Life is a challenge for the physically disadvantaged people. While many overcome hurdles to living a better life, an insensitive government in Kashmir limits...
Jailed Without Trial
A minor breadwinner of a poor family of ten is behind bars from the past six months without trial under PSA. Ikhlaq Qadri reports.
Shahzada...
Chasm in the bonhomie
For long Iran and India have had warm friendly relations. However, the shift in Indian foreign policy is creating a wedge between the two...
What US thinks of Kashmir!
Wikileaks is driving news across the globe and in the subcontinent. It leaked a Congressional Research Service Report (RL31587) of September 2002 in February...
Parking Losses
Private operators running different car parking lots in Srinagar ran into red due to curfews and strikes in summer. Ikhlaq Qadri reports.
In the beginning...
Climate Change: 2030
India’s Environment & Forests Ministry released a report that provides an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030s on four key sectors of...
Changing climate, changing life
Changing lifestyle and heavy influx of tourists is putting the fragile ecology of Ladakh region under stress, which is already witnessing the negative effects...
Back in action
Two separatist leaders were released after New Delhi appointed interlocutors to asses the situation in Kashmir. Ilham Hassan found them disappointed with the scenario...
Outsourcing Qurbani
A new concept in the centuries-old Islamic practice of offering the sacrifice of animals on Eid-Ul-Azha is gaining popularity in Kashmir. S Ikhlaq A...
