Kashmir Life
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...
Marked For Life
There are more than 75000 families in the police black list whose members and relatives are barred from jobs, denied passports and always under surveillance. Around 15000 have been added in just two years. Ilham Hassan reports
Dateline Srinagar
Associated with the blood soaked Srinagar dateline, Ali Mohammed Sofi had providential escapes many times while reporting from Kashmir. Post retirement he talks to...
More than a cave!
Lolab’s beauty attracted poets and filmmakers in the past. Now things have changed but its lush pastures, woods, its myths and spirit of its...
J&K Bank: Uninterrupted Growth Story
The growth at J&K Bank remains to be uninterrupted. Even though Kashmir is passing through a crisis since June, the bank registered a net...
