Kashmir Life
From Bang to Boom
After overcoming the parental hurdles, a young man driven by community sense started working to put Leh on tourism map. Fifteen years after, both...
Promising Start
Zameer Ahmad
Government run institutions are rarely seen as centers of excellence in J&K. Be that in the realm of academics, healthcare, research and development...
Kashmir’s Crash Lands
Last week’s chopper crash at Safapora was neither the first one nor is expected to be the last air crash in Kashmir. Since 1947...
Linguistic Games
Mohammad Ahseem
This year on 21st of February the world will be observing 15th anniversary of world mother tongue day. The day proclaimed by UNESCO...
News Note
Swine flu
Swine flu or H1N1 is a reality now. We cannot just shut our eyes and ears and wish it away. With 80 people...
Briefing
KUPWARA
At the outset, they claimed they had brought the “murder accused” for interrogation and taken him to hospital for his chest pain where he...
Mall-deficiencies
Arshid Malik
Introspectively, I have come to conclude that shopping mall culture is just not for Kashmir. We have seen so many shopping malls built...
Face It
Ideally September 7, 2014 floods should have served as a warning for our sleepy administration who seem to have developed a penchant for acting...
Breaking Dry Spell
As valley witness fresh spell of snowfall on Thursday photojournalist Bilal Bahadur captures life around city’s business hub Lal Chowk
BJP, PDP candidates elected unopposed; rest of results to be declared on March 2...
KL Report
Jammu
The BJP and PDP parties registered a combined victory in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative council election. Five candidates of the combine were...
Knowing H1N1
As H1N1 is emerging as the new cause of concern in Kashmir, Dr Rabbanie Tariq Wani offers a quick guide to the causes and...
Drugging A CBM
At a time when PDP is reportedly seeking assurances from Narendra Modi led BJP government to strengthen the cross-LoC trade and travel, the drug...
Theory of Prototypes and Archetypes
Mehboob Makhdoomi
With New Delhi’s Machiavellian reaction to the Muslim United Front’s endeavour to use democratic institutions of India for the resolution of Kashmir quagmire...
Secret of ‘Secret Talks’
Dr Altaf Hussain Para
Now it is the seventh week since election results for Kashmir’s Legislative Assembly were declared on 23rd December 2014, and the...
Waiting for Change
It has been already around six weeks since election results were declared; and more than five months since historic floods devastated most of the...



















