Kashmir Life
US Cable: How US diplomacy saw Delhi reaction to Miliband’s Kashmir statement?
This cable, leaked by the whistle-blower website Wikileaks, is a detailed account of the concern that Delhi has on Kashmir. It also offers an...
US Cable: MEA concerned over special envoy appointment
The cable, leaked by the whistle-blower website Wikileaks is indexed as 09NEWDELHI29. It was written by US ambassador in Delhi David C Mulford on...
Marketing Peace!
Can innovative marketing techniques help bring peaceful resolution to Kashmir issue? It can, argues first time writer Mehboob Makhdoomi, a management research fellow from...
Naya Cashmere Designs
Two and half decades of conflict inspired many youngsters to take art as a medium of expression. Two youngsters from Srinagar are redefining traditional...
One Verses All
Despite some separatists calling it a non-issue, Geelani’s election boycott made Omar to seek New Delhi’s intervention to bypass Kashmir for mandatory NOTA option...
Belligerent Bonhomie
Breaking the tradition, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi did not only differ publicly with his friend and chief minister Omar Abdullah but also played safe...
News Notes
Stoning REMARK
Clarifying the recent statement of Syed Ali Geelani wherein he had condemned the stone pelting incident at his rally in Sopore, Hurriyat Conference...
People-blind
Arshid Malik
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance - Confucius.
Humankind’s quest for knowledge is like a bottomless pit – there is...
Muhammad Saleem Beg
A former bureaucrat of J&K state, Muhammad Saleem Beg was awarded a central posting this past week. A well known name in heritage conservation...
From Kashmir to Pune
Mir liyaqat Nazir
Uthkar to aagaye hain teri bazam se magar
Kuch dil hi jaanta hai kis dil se aayen hai
(Faiz Ahamad Faiz)
(I left while the...
“Our enforcement wing remains in the market round the clock to check black-marketing”
An alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University, Mir Mushtaq, started his stint in government services as district social welfare officer. As his years in office spanned, he was...
Migratory Resources
With half of the population migrating to warmer places in Jammu and other Indian states, winter in Kashmir is often a dull affair. There...
Briefing
SRINAGAR
A day after major fire broke out in Srinagar lone maternity hospital Lalla Ded the minister for Medical Education, Taj Mohiuddin who was visiting...
The 2009 Failure
Amid the roars of guns at the LoC, when Nawaz Sharief wished seeking Obama’s help on Kashmir, it angered many people from Delhi to...
News Makers
AWARDED:
A Fast Track Court has awarded seven years of rigorous imprisonment and has imposed a fine of Rs 25000 to a rapist, Balwan Singh,...
