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Kashmir Life

Poppy Pop Up

Marijuana is outdated. Now poppy cultivation is popular in Kashmir because it yields better, faster, is less labour intensive and has a niche market...

“Kishan Ganga Power Project has Ruined Gurez”

Three time lawmaker from picturesque Gurez region, Nazir Ahmad Khan alias Gurezi, tells Muhammad Raafi and Riyaz ul Khaliq that connectivity is the biggest...

DPS hyper-controversy   

Arshid Malik The recent hyper-controversy about the dress worn by a female teacher of Delhi Public School, Athwajan Byepass has catapulted into a major “debate”...

Number Game

The coming together of five brothers gave birth to Srinagar’s most reliable financial consultancy. Heena Muzzafar  tells their story Eleven years back when Mushtaq Ahmad...

Let’s Talk Dal

Shams Irfan What is the shortest way to reach God or get heard by Him? This riddle has baffled me ever since I attained adulthood. I...

Parameters of Innocence

By Khalid Fayaz By In 1997, in our village in Islamabad, a Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) commander was martyred by BSF. A year later, the same...

Rationalize MLA Emoluments

The only issue that echoes a massive consensus and cohesion in J&K’s bicameral legislature is the wages of the lawmakers. Every time, the issue...

Briefing

DAL LAKE Lawmakers committee on the environment has asked the LAWDA to plant two Chinar trees at the famous Char Chinari island in the Dal...

Return of the Ring

After three cop killings in Srinagar and subsequently a few more in south, security scenario across Kashmir witnessed a sharp spike. But in many...

Replicating Emotions

Intach’s effort to document historically important structures in Kashmir came handy while rebuilding devastated Dastageer Sahib Shrine. Ubeer Naqushbandi reports the behind the scene...

Sajjad Gani Lone

Politicians are known for displaying the dual traits of eccentricity and euphemism. Perhaps the blend of both was at show when Ms Mehbooba Mufti’s...

Pampore Attack: How Photojournalists Saved the Situation From Getting Nasty

KL NEWS NETWORK SRINAGAR The two photo-journalists who reached the spot within minutes after the Pampore attack were shocked to see the volume of the crisis....

Life After Heartbreak

By Musheer Ul Haq Manhas Sometimes this broken heart, says American ordained nun Pema Chödrön, gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment...

Emotional Send Off Of to Eight Slain CRPF Men At Humhama

KL NEWS NETWORK SRINAGAR It was an emotional send off of the eight CRPF personnel who were killed by militants in an ambush in Pampore on...

Tear Smoke Kills Cop In Pampore

KL NEWS NETWORK SRINAGAR A cop was killed, almost instantly, in Pampore when a tear smoke shell he was carrying blasted in his hands. It triggered...