Kashmir Life
Wicked Silhouettes
By Saima Rashid
Look...
Those silhouettes
Are coming to derail
The calm of the
Hamlet!
Men, Simmering!
Women, worrying.
Youth, fuming.
Children, sobbing...
Are they on prowl
To resurrect
The dark times? -
The one
That proved
Blackhole of
Our...
Modi-Mehbooba Meeting: PDP President Expresses Satisfaction Over ‘Positive’ Meeting
Tasavur Mushtaq
SRINAGAR
In a last attempt to re-stitch the alliance with BJP, PDP’s president Mehbooba Mufti met Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday morning. Ms Mufti...
Turning the Calendar
by Shah Faesal
Counting "red-letter" days on a J&K Bank Calendar - at times by standing over a pile of cushions as the prized Calendars...
Ganderbal Waits For Chief Engineer’s 5-Minute Trip
KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Residents of Ganderbal said that the damaged receiving station that was restored and repaired by the government is ready but the area...
Jaitely Assurances: PDP Responding Positively, Mehbooba Flies To Delhi
KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Government formation in J&K is seemingly imminent as Finance Minister Arun Jaitely’s statement in parliament has renewed activities in Srinagar, Jammu and...
J&K Budget: Inexplicable Turn of Events
KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
The SAC meeting scheduled today at 10:30 am was ‘surprisingly’ postponed with no next date or timing announced. The meeting was supposed...
Downtown’s Glory
Everybody thought it was suicidal to invest Rs 6 crore in hospitality sector in otherwise hostile downtown. Mohammad Raafi talks to the brother duo...
Unpolished Hope
Before it could have taken off Kashmir’s marble hub Batergam was turned into a garrison. A decade later when troops left, industrialists were taken...
JNU Aftermaths
Mir Liyaqat
The cultural programme at JNU to mark the death anniversary of Afzal Garu and Maqbool Bhat has snowballed into a controversy.
Both the so-called...
Tentacles of Suppression
Arshid Malik
What we, as a generation of youngsters, went through in the era of the 90s is beyond description. Yes, words defy expression of...
Catch-22
Riyaz Ul Khaliq
“My son achieved purpose of his life,” summed up mother of Dawood who died fighting Indian forces in South Kashmir. “Why should...
Northern Bites
While everybody is hunting fortunes in Srinagar, this automobile engineer went down north to give Baramulla its first fast-food shop. Shakir Mir reports
Unlike other...
Dial for Help
It was because of a NGO’s sting that a Sopore based faith-healer’s dirty world was uncovered. Shakir Mir takes a look at the NGO’s...
Kanhaiya Kumar
Although it was third death anniversary of Afzal Guru, but aftershocks of his hanging continue to shake people and institutions, alike. Behind the latest...
Briefing
SOPORE
Four years after he was released, Tawseef Peer from Badambagh, still does not know why the police arrested him from Jharkhand. But he still...
