Kashmir Life
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...
The Womb
by Jabeer Ahmad
It had started raining outside when Fahmeda woke up with a parched throat and a broken dream. A flash of lightning entered...
Not just a Number
More than a hundred people who died in the summer unrest may just be statistics for the authorities but not for their families. Shams...
Playing to the gallery
The appointment of interlocutors, their Kashmir foray, and report to home minister, all seems to be an exercise in haste, to appear engaged as...
US Kashmir Policy: In Retrospect
Once interested in an overt role, US off late preferred a hands off approach, or at most a covert role in Indo-Pak tangles on...
Americans In Kashmir History
Admiral Chester W Nimitz
(February 24, 1885- February 20, 1966)
A five star admiral, Chester William Nimitz retired as US’s chief of naval operations (CNO) in...
