Kashmir Life
“Daily-wagers case was a social crisis”
Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu explains the compelling factors that led him to regularize the services of tens of thousands of daily wagers and...
Restricted Knowledge
Once the home to Sharda Peath, the medieval university in subcontinent, Kashmir with a millennium of recorded history is still struggling to get into...
Problem Power
Kashmir’s energy crisis remains unchanged as only transmission and not generation and distribution witnesses any major shift, reports Tasavur Mushtaq
When the IAS 2010 topper...
Briefing
CONFLICT KIDS: These frozen frames were the most striking of the pictures hot in 2017. While in two cases (right and left), the infants...
The Water Hunger
With modest rains and snow emerging a routine as glaciers disappear, Kashmir is already facing a serious groundwater crisis, reports Muhammad Younis
Making river water...
Unmaking Srinagar
Almost half a century after creating a full-fledged development authority to help Srinagar become a modern city, Kashmir’s capital is struggling to survive even...
Smile Please
First, it was emperor Jehangir and then Irish poet Thomas Moore, who sung in praise of Kashmir. Then Bollywood took over to reiterate that...
A Great Man We Should Know
by Mehdi Khawaja
“Knowing him has been an education.”
Edward Said
“By which mirror Eqbal, in his clear undertone, still plots to end all human pain?”
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Rare Judgement: Kashmir Court Awards Death Sentence
In 2005, a minor baby of around six years went missing in Mehjoor Nagar. It triggered a crisis as there were no leads anywhere....
The world outside
by Younis Kaloo
Five-month pregnant Rashida crossed the road and sat on the concrete step of a shop owned by a prominent businessman of the locality,...
“Kashmir has the most professional journalists”
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) recently released Kashmir Media In Peril: A Situation Report about the state and status of media in Kashmir. While...
Hillock Secrets
Small hillocks are holding bigger secrets in some villages around Awantipore. A serious effort by the archaeologists can help trace Kashmir’s distant past, reports...
The KAS Case
Kashmir’s participation in the state civil services has remained phenomenally low, historically. This year of the 51 candidates, who cracked the examination, only 13...
Briefing
BATMURRAN
In last two weeks, the pictures of two toddlers who lost their mothers to stray bullets sent social-media into instant mourning. The first...
Kashmiri Identity
By Dr S Khurshid ul Islam
Valley of Kashmir is a separate geographical, social, culture and political entity. When we consider its language, culture,...
