Kashmir Life
Olive: A Blessed Fruit
By: Zeenat Farooq
Olive tree belonging to Oleaceae family found in the Mediterranean basin, Arabian Peninsula and in parts of southern Asia. Oleaceae family derives...
Unending pain
The creation of counter-insurgency grid during 90s forced thousands of families into self-exile. But there were a few families who lost lot more than...
Briefing
SHARIEFABAD
Discussing the word Azaadi being written by some student on the blackboard, soldiers were infuriated when a teacher of a Goodwill School referred a...
Bloody Friday
This Friday started with mourning in Kashmir. As the dawn fell, two young men were sent in coffins to their home in Ashtangoo village...
A Mosque for all
Before a small misunderstanding over praying space between two communities could have escalated into a major crisis, someone came with a novel solution. Four...
Kakpora Encounter: Police version
SRINAGAR: police issued a detailed statement on the Kakpora encounter in which three militants were killed.
Acting on a specific input Pulwama police along with...
SSA teachers protest, threaten state-wide lock down of schools
Srinagar
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers staged a protest at Press Enclave Srinagar on Thursday against the delay in the release of their pending...
India claims: 2 Pak soldiers killed in cross border firing along LoC
Srinagar
India on Thursday claimed to have killed two Pakistani soldiers along the line of control after the later violated ceasefire in Nowshera sector in...
Briefing
CHANDIGARH
It is unprecedented. In a PGI ward, two patients with identical kidney ailment, Hanifa Bano from Kulgam and Harpal Bhardwaj from Karnal, were looking...
Jamia Masjid
Centre of religion and resistance, Jamia Masjid in Old city Srinagar holds the biggest congregation in Valley. Built by by Sultan Sikandar Shah Kashmiri...
Minor Militants
The latest of the juvenile rebels killed in an encounter was only 15 years of age. He was neither the first to fall to...
Stitching a Living
When men failed to yield a sustainable income from once respected Aari work, they abandoned en-masse. Interestingly, the gulf was filled by their better...
Honey in fasting
By Zeenat Farooq
Honey is a sugary liquid of high consistency and stickiness that is produced by honey bees from the nectar of flowers by...
GST doesn’t compromise J&K’s fiscal autonomy, competence of its legislature or cabinet
Dr Haseeb A Drabu, J&K Finance Minister on GST, autonomy and business
Kashmir Life (KL): Once upon a time Dr Drabu was against GST and...
Ali Mohammad Parra
Not often you come across a bag full of money sitting on the road. But when such an incident happens, your honesty is the...
