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Friday, October 18, 2024

Masood Hussain

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Associated with the Srinagar dateline since 1987, Masood Hussain has served a number of media organisations in the last more than three decades. He served Kashmir Times for around a decade and joined The Economic Times which he left in 2015 after 17 years. He is currently the Editor of Kashmir Life.

Kashmir: An Amazing Verdict

In 2024’s free and fair election to a skirted assembly, the electors in Jammu and Kashmir gave a landslide mandate to JKNC. It brought...

Kashmir Elections: An Assessment

As Jammu and Kashmir is polling for the first phase next week, Masood Hussain writes about the state and status of the political situation...

Kashmir Polls: A Curtain Raiser

As Jammu and Kashmir is racing to elect 90 members to the assembly that has lost its authority and sting in the last five...

Kashmir: Parched and Scorched

Adverse weather conditions have started impacting almost everything in Kashmir: health, energy, vegetables, fruits, rice, water supply and education. As an outcome of climate...

Sitharaman’s Sixth Kashmir Budget

The fiscal management of Jammu and Kashmir is no better under Union’s watch with a surge in debt amidst massive revenue shortfall leaving a...

Khyber Cement Hosts Landmark Dealer and Retailer Meet at SKICC

SRINAGAR: Khyber Cement, a leading cement manufacturer in Jammu and Kashmir, successfully hosted its Taraqi Ke Hamsafar dealer and retailer meet at the Sher-i-Kashmir...

SKIMS: New Manager, Old Problems

As a capable researcher and a well-meaning doctor takes over the reins of SKIMS leadership, Masood Hussain reports that Dr Ashraf Ganai is facing...

How al-Fatah Was Dismantled?

Before retiring from service during the tumultuous 1990s, IPS officer Ali M Watali played a pivotal role in supervising the arrest of numerous militants...

Why Is World Bank Neutral Expert Flying to Jammu and Kashmir For 11 Days?

by Masood Hussain SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government is busy in preparations to host a huge delegation of the World Bank-appointed Neutral Expert, Michel...

The Muzaffarabad Unrest

Four people including three civilians and a cop were killed in a series of violent incidents on the other side of the Line of...

A Cliffhanger Contest

In North Kashmir, 22 candidates are vying for 1.7 million votes and the contest is between Omar Abdullah and Sajad Lone. But the two...

The Srinagar Contest

With 24 candidates in the fray, the triangular contest is bipolar inside. Though pinching each other for one or the other thing, JKNC and...

Ramban Disaster Hits Power Transmission Set Up but Kashmir Darkness Is Linked to Purchase

by Masood Hussain  SRINAGAR: The ongoing land subsidence, which has erased the Pernote village of Ramban, has critically hit the power transmission set-up of Kashmir....

Intriguing Universe of a Kashmir ‘Faith Healer’ Whose Axe Communicated His ‘Power’

by Masood Hussain SRINAGAR: Kashmir’s superstitious people had presented hundreds of axes to their apparently mentally compromised Peer, who killed a 72-year-old woman by hitting...

LS Polls: Allies and Alliances

Only two of the six Lok Sabha berths in erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state will have a black-and-white contest between BJP and Congress. The...