Kashmir Life
Abdul Rahim Rather
He started and ended his 2014-15 budget speech with Urdu couplets. But for the day what stood him out was his fourteenth budget presentation....
Kehwa Scandal!
Irtif Lone
As if the tragedies in Kashmir were not enough, there was this latest ‘Kehwa’ scandal. Kehwa which otherwise is a delicacy relished by...
News Makers
CRUSHED:
Manzoor Ahmed and his daughter Yasmeen Banoo were crushed to death by a speeding truck at Jaswal bridge, Karool on Jammu-Srinagar highway. Police have...
News Notes
Ocean of Tears
‘Ocean of Tears’, a documentary on the Kunan- Poshpora rape victims in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, was screened at VIBGYOR International short...
Jungle Rule
In November 2012, the surfacing of a video footage from South Kashmir’s apple bowl Shopian, in which an angry mob was allegedly trying to...
Career Profiling
Enam Lone
Sometime back, I remember having had a chance to watch this renowned counsellor from India speak at IMPA. She had a distinct charm...
Obituary
Ustad Ghulam Mohammad Saaznawaz
(1940-2014)
The legendary Sufiana music Artist and instrumentalist, Ustad Ghulam Mohammad Saaznawaz passed away Thursday afternoon. He belonged to the famous Saaznawaz...
Pheran is Back
From traditional wear to keep oneself warm during winters to a fashion statement, Pheran has come a long way. Rahiba R Parveen, reports the...
Plough, Pen and a Hand
As the election season draws near, ruling NC and opposition PDP are busy in creating chances of coalition with Congress. The election symbols of...
A Successful Journey
From a door to door salesman selling Kashmiri handicrafts in West Bengal to a self made businessman with multi-crore turnover, Fayaz Ahmad’s story is...
Briefing
Bangalore:
Adding another feather to a long list of ‘firsts’, Kashmir’s cricketing poster boy Parvez Rasool became the first from Jammu and Kashmir to go...
Commissioning A Change!
In a place like Kashmir if lone Human Rights watch body busies itself with issues like traffic mess, private tuition centres, food adulteration etc,...
Surgeon Special
Seven years ago, when Dr Shakeel, a maxillofacial surgeon from Srinagar, started doing cleft surgeries, he was shocked by such high prevalence. Bilal Handoo...
Rare Kashmir Cars
In an ongoing Salon Retromobile exhibition in Paris, two of the 15 Rolls Royce Cars once belonged to the erstwhile Kashmir autocrat Hari Singh....
News Notes
Raucous UNITS
While reacting on the creation of new administrative units and the situation arising out of it, chairman, Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Geelani...
