Kashmir Life
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With state under Governor’s rule for the second time since 2014 assembly elections, there are more than a few angry faces roaming around in...
Disciplined Lot
Nazir Ahmad Nazir
The word discipline seems missing from our dictionary. We sermonize and preach, but in our private life act quite contrary to what...
A Grave Issue
Apparently to prevent mass gathering at militant funerals, security grid has abandoned the practice of transferring foreign militant corpses to residents for burial. Instead,...
Easing The Burden
By R S Gull
J&K is as distant from an elected government as it was last week. But the net difference is the change. Unlike...
Dumping Sar
Home to over three lakh migratory birds Hokersar is fast turning into Srinagar’s dump-yard. After September floods 31000 shoes were retrieved from the famed...
The Milkha Girl
The atheletic journey of this teenage girl from the woods of Pahalgham is full of twists and turns. Aakash Hassan tells her story
A small...
Caring Hands
Lets be honest, there is no place for specially-abled children in our society except special schools. But the overall indifference is pushing them into...
Briefing
SRINAGAR
In last 11 months, J&K police were in news four times for its recruits deserting the force and joining rebels. Now it seems it...
Pulwama Killings: Valley Shuts in Protest, 12 Injured in Day-Long Clashes
Mohammad Raafi
SRINAGAR
Following the killing of two civilians including a woman allegedly by government forces in Pulwama on Sunday, normal life in Kashmir Valley Monday...
Sunday Shootout: A Teen Survivor Recalls The Death Trap
Riyaz Bhat
SRINAGAR
Like every Sunday, I left home to play a routine cricket match in Pulwama’s Lelhar ground. Everything was going nice and smooth before...
When The Willow Wept
Santosh Bakaya
14 February dawned like any other day
Like every day the trees rustled
Every house, with fresh notes and sounds bustled.
From the Willow tree the...
Heavenly Shaista
Saima Rashid
I had a dream. Last night. Well, you might ask, what’s new in that? We all dream almost every night, right? But no,...
Pulwama Killings: Who was Shaista Hamid?
KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Shaista Hamid who was killed in alleged forces action Sunday in Pulwama was pursuing her Master’s Degree from Maulana Azad National Urdu...
Of Apps, and Kashmiri Techies
Saima Bashir | Tabish Khan
SRINAGAR
It has become a new fad among tech-savvy Kashmiris of late. Killing time on computers is no longer just spoiling...
Now, J&K Will Have More IAS and Less KAS In Administration
Bilal Handoo
SRINAGAR
J&K is gradually shedding its exclusivity. After police, now the civil services will lose the 50:50 composition in the civil administration thus bringing...
