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Kashmir Life

Briefing (December 22-28, 2019)

SRINAGAR Almost 136 days after it was locked, a gathering of 76 faithful was permitted to offer Zuhr, the afternoon prayers, at Jamia Masjid on...
Patients outside the Block A’s OPD section. KL Image by Shah Hilal

Rodents And Obstetrics

As South Kashmir’s main maternity hospital operates from a rundown building, the mothers and the new born have to co-exist with rodents along with...
Tariq (Second from left) and Farooq (Right side) associated by pain story shams irfan

Associated By Pain

When the society and the government looked down at them and, in certain cases, even families saw them as burden, fate got a couple...

Briefing (December 15-21, 2019)

MUMBAI For their marriage, actors Alia Bhat and Ranbir Kapoor are coming to Kashmir, Bollywood grapevine suggests. It may take place in 2020. Alia wants...
Muzaffar Ahmed Khan (KL Image by Shah Hilal)

The Chowkidar

Umar Khurshid tells the story of a specially abled man, who after guarding a hospital for a decade is now face to face with...
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Lost Opportunities

With instability and turmoil frequenting Kashmir, more than 200 thousand students at the college and university level are facing a crippling crisis as their...

Briefing (December 08-14, 2019)

KERALA Post-August 5, people have innovated systems to express solidarity with the Kashmiri people. Musthujab Makkolath, 27, a Kerala resident has joined 25 volunteers of...
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The Internet Train

As railways resumed its limited service, tens of thousands of Kashmiris spend their days in Banihal to avail the internet and upgrade their cell...

Briefing (December 01-07, 2019)

PAMPORE The bumper Saffron crop this season came with an interesting development – Kashmir’s monopoly over the costliest spice on earth is about to end....
A girl walks outside deserted Dooru hospital building. KL Image by Shah Hilal

A Model Wasted

Deep down south, the government invested heavily in creating a model health centre. As it is waiting for inauguration, part of the precious equipment...

Yet Another Murder?

After struggling for life for almost a week, when mother of two kids felt that she may not survive, she gave graphic detail of...

Briefing (November 24-30, 2019)

JAMMU The BJP leader continued acting as the Speaker of a house whose most of the members are in jail, even after re-organization of the...
CRPF checking the medical documents of a woman during restrictions in old city of Srinagar. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur

Hit Hard

Without phones, internet and transport, thousands of seriously ailing patients were the silent sufferers of the post-August lockdown, reports Aaqib Hyder When Sara Begum, 58,...
A side view of a Panchayat building in Anzwalla village of Anantnag. KL Image by Umar Khurshid

18 Years, Waiting

A villager donated his piece of land for the construction of Panchayat Ghar when he was 30. He was promised a job. For all...

Briefing (November 17-23, 2019)

DELHI On the very first day of the hearing (November 14) of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370, the 5-judge bench posted the matter...