Masood Hussain
Banking In Kashmir 2026
Deposits crossed Rs 2.16 lakh crore and advances Rs 1.32 lakh crore in FY 2025-26, yet Jammu and Kashmir Bank's own lending market share...
Kashmir’s Power Bills
Power tariffs rise 6.83 per cent from September amid improving AT&C losses and revenue, but weak hydro generation and falling peripheral collections after metering...
A Girl’s Ultimate Betrayal
The rape, impregnation and death of a minor Gujjar girl, along with her stillborn child, in Chatroo is emerging as a pitiless story of...
Six Words, 71 Years Later
His promise to get the adverse travel advisories downgraded was welcomed by the hospitality sector. But other comments made by US envoy Sergio Gor...
Kashmir’s Willow Wails
Kashmir's Rs 700-crore willow-bat industry, feeding nearly 400 units and 1.5 lakh livelihoods, is bleeding raw material to smugglers even as manufacturers themselves stay...
Drugs: Kashmir’s New Battlefield
Numerically, Jammu and Kashmir’s battle against the drug menace has reached an unprecedented scale, with property attachments accounting for nearly half of the total...
Kashmir: PPP Push
The Jammu and Kashmir government has set a one-month deadline to finalise an ambitious new Public-Private Partnership policy framework, writes Masood Hussain
The Jammu and Kashmir...
Kashmir’s Data Debate
Jammu and Kashmir's Planning Department has unveiled a Data Management Strategy seeking to harmonise fragmented government records. But will it address the 2019 bifurcation's...
Kashmir’s Dissenting Doctor
A physician who practised medicine even after entering politics, Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamal spent four decades inside the National Conference, the party his father...
Kashmir Statehood: Civil Society Stand
At a candid interaction, Kashmiri civil society members pressed Omar Abdullah's government on governance failures and demanded full statehood restoration, reports Masood Hussain
“Seemingly,...
Kashmir: Waste Promises
Jammu and Kashmir’s circular economy policy sets ambitious targets for 2035, but the gap between vision and ground reality reveals a region still drowning...
Kashmir’s Poisoned Harvest
A new study across Kashmir’s four water bodies finds water chestnut fruits carrying cadmium levels 5.5 times above safe limits, with Dal Lake recording...
‘World History is Buried in Kashmir’
Prominent geologist Prof GM Bhat tells Masood Hussain that Kashmir's rocks hold the world's most complete record of Earth's greatest extinction, that humans walked...
Kashmir: The First Count
As the families across the Jammu and Kashmir area await an enumerator’s doorbell to get counted for the Census 2027, Masood Hussain narrates the...
‘I Told Taliban Give Me a Job, not a Gun’: Globe Traveller Soman Debnath...
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: Sunderban cyclist Soman Debnath is happy that, after more than 19 years, he has become the lone Indian to have peddled...





















