Kashmir Life
Costly Affair
Development of Narbal – Tangmarg road has led to escalation in the land prices as the area is receiving huge investments in tourist related...
Politics in Hills
With huge ‘unaccounted’ money at councilor’s disposal, Autonomous Hill Development Council elections in Ladakh region attract political heavy weights including religious heads. Amid social...
Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar
It seems ruling National Conference is in recruitment mode. Barely one year away from elections, former Congress leader, Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar has joined NC....
Village Destabilising Culture
For the last two decades, J&K’s security grid raised an almost 29000-member army of VDCs across the Jammu region by training and arming selective...
Chenab Divides
Recent communal clashes in Kishtwar have brought VDCs back into focus. While Muslims question their relevance in militancy-free Chenab valley, Hindus feel they are...
Maimed Meadow!
Spread over around 3000 kanals of land, Tosa Maidan meadow in district Budgam was taken over by army on lease in 1964 for conducting...
Conflict and Life
Muhammad Tahir
Last week I boarded a Tata sumo cab for Pulwama. My destination was Shopian. As things go in ‘peaceful’ Kashmir, there was a...
Briefing
BRANWAR
Thanks to bad weather; chief minister Omar Abdullah got to show his cricketing skills at Branwar, Budgam recently. Omar was in the village to...
News Makers
INAUGRATED:
A two-day workshop on development of strategic approach to Reproductive Maternal New Born Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH), a Sub-Plan for High Priority Districts...
News Notes
Justice Delivered?
Finally the justice was delivered in the case of Wamiq Farooq. After three years, a local court has issued non-bailable warrants against the...
Poet Surrogate
by Arshid Malik
It was the first time I was meeting late Aga Shahid Ali, renowned poet whose wonderful collections of poems including the Half-Inch...
Resolve K-Dispute As Per Peoples’ Aspirations: Jama’at
KL Report
SRINAGAR
Stating that any forced solution imposed against aspirations of Kashmiri people will not be accepted, the Jama’at-e-Islami Sunday urged upon India and Pakistan...
Utilize Money Of Musical Concert For Education Or Healthcare: Mirwaiz
KL Report
SRINAGAR
Denouncing the Jamia Masjid operation of 1989 and desecration of other religious places, Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Sunday warned the...
Alternatives Can Be Accepted As Situation Has Materially Changed; Says Hurriyat M’s Prof Bhat
KL Report
SRINAGAR
While terming the elections as non-issue, Hurriyat Conference (M) executive member and chairman of Muslim Conference Prof Abdul Gani Bhat Sunday said that...
Northern Army Commander Briefs Governor
KL Report
SRINAGAR
Lt. Gen. Sanjiv Chachra, GOC-in-C, Northern Command, called on N. N. Vohra, Governor, at Raj Bhavan, here this evening.
According to official spokesman, during...
