Kashmir Life
The Half Year Story
During the first six months of the current financial year, the banks operating in the state have increased their advances. But they have under-performed...
Lighting Up Lives
Being a power deficit state despite generating enough to light up the valley, people are opting for alternatives. Rahiba R Parveen reports how people...
For Arts Sake!
Muhammad Maroof Shah
One might be excused a remark that there is hardly any culture for art in Kashmir. Leaving aside mass ignorance regarding such...
Surviving Scandalous
Ever since his elevation to cabinet, senior Congress leader Peerazada Mohammad Sayeed is in news for all the wrong reasons. Be it multi-crore rural...
I Am The Witness
by Shams Irfan
(A still from Arshid Mushtaq’s play Buh Chus Sheahid.)
On a cold winter afternoon in Kashmir’s oldest state owned college auditorium people sat...
Looking Back
Omar Abdullah led coalition government completed five years in office. Many people made their surprise and shock public that the government avoided any formal...
News Notes
Frail Faktoo
The case of Dr Qasim Faktoo reveals that on May 31, 2012 he completed 20 years in prison, which as per the Jail...
Extraordinary Entrepreneur
She left her studies to start a pashmina shawl manufacturing unit. Two years later her products adored display windows in Paris and Rome. Shaheena...
Volte-face of AAP on Kashmir
Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain
For a long time Indian politics has been tri-polar. On one side of it remained Jan Sang and its reincarnate Bhartiya...
Nayeema Ahmad Mehjoor
Nayeema Ahmad Mehjoor
Politics, it seems, is fast becoming the last refuge of many people in Kashmir. An apparent observation goes that these people are...
Briefing
SRINAGAR
Parties apart, the year end in Kashmir usually starts with massive appetite for J&K bank’s wall calendars. It prints quite huge (almost a million)...
News Makers
ENGAGED: The Election Commission is planning to engage 50,000 to 60,000 government employees including 900 Gazetted Officers in the upcoming state elections, which are...
Mushtaq Ganaie report ignored Sangrama constituency: Bukhari
KL Report
SRINAGAR
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senior leader and MLA Sangrama Syed Basharat Bukhari on Sunday said that Mushtaq Ganaie report has ignored his constituency and...
Individual opinions cannot override Hurriyat’s collective decisions: Mirwaiz
KL Report
SRINAGAR
Stating that the individual opinions in Hurriyat Conference (M) cannot override the collective decisions of the amalgam, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of the...
CET-Paper leak scam: CB files charge sheet against 25, including 12 tainted students
KL Report
SRINAGAR
The Crime Branch of Police on Sunday filed charge sheet against 25 accused in Common Entrance Test (CET) paper leak scam of 2012. Besides, some...
