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Wednesday, August 5, 2026
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Kashmir Life

The Breakup

Is NC and Congress’ split before state assembly elections going to help PDP and BJP in Kashmir and Jammu respectively?  Shah Abbas analyses how...

Briefing

SRINAGAR Omar Abdullah has made public that his father Dr Farooq Abdullah wouldn’t be contesting the forthcoming assembly elections. The reason is his health. Dr...

 Looking Back at Life

From once a famous television actress to a forgotten old lady living in penury, Pranna Shangloo has experienced all shades of life.  Nuzhat Mushtaq...

Kalvakuntla Kavitha

Mainstream political voices from Indian mainland are lately echoing the same views that plunged the Himalayan region in the quagmire of ‘unending conflict’. After...

Silence is Criminal

Shams Irfan What happened on 19th July, 2014 in Qaimoh, Kulgam was painful and criminal. But the way people in Kashmir, especially those seated in...

Baltal Blaze

For decades local Muslims fed and carried Hindus to the cave shrine. Now when non-local stakeholders started meddling with their livelihood, a crisis erupted....

Lifting Homes

What will you do if your house sinks in? Is it possible to lift it up? Inspired by a television series young entrepreneur starts...

News Notes

Quds Day Thousands of people marched on streets across Kashmir valley on International Quds Day, commemorated on the last Friday of Ramadan throughout the Muslim...

Let’s not Forget

With holy month of Ramadhan in its last phase the air is already filled with festivities. After a month’s fasting people have now started...

Truly Techie 

Qualifying Indian Engineering Services (IES) wasn’t a cakewalk for the son of farmer hailing from a remote village. But as Riyaz Ul Khaliq finds...

“I was forced to leave PTV as my reports frustrated Indian troops stationed in...

It is an unruffled neighbourhood in plush Sanat Nagar locality of uptown Srinagar. In one of the secluded houses, Ghulam Nabi Khayal, 75, a...

New, Emerging India

Irtif Lone The rhetoric has started, and is probably gaining the momentum. India is taking off the veil of being a secular state. They have...

Pampore 32

Historically NC’s stronghold Pampore tilted towards PDP after main-town chose to boycott elections. With NC struggling to find a tough competitor against PDP’s two...

News Makers

ORDERED: State revenue department has ordered the placement of 53 Naib Tehsildars as in-charge Tehsildars and 56 NaibTehsildars are asked to look after the work...

Train to Paradise

 By: Seema Qadri Trains, railway tracks and railway stations, whenever I recall them from the long-drawn-out list of memories from my childhood, I would always get...