Masood Hussain
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’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...
The Hajj That Was
From medieval sultans to wandering mystics, Kashmir's long relationship with the Hajj made it both a way-station for Makkah-bound Central Asian pilgrims and a...
JK Bank: Peak Profits
In fiscal 2025-26, JK Bank rewrote its own record books with a historic high profit of Rs 2363 crore and won back investor confidence...
Kashmir: War Against Drugs
As drug abuse emerges as a major challenge in Jammu and Kashmir, law enforcement agencies have launched an intensified campaign to dismantle cartels and...
Kashmir and Bangladesh: Binding Threads
Kashmir and Bangladesh sit at opposite ends of the Himalayan arc, yet their ties run deep and old. Medical students, apple traders, accidental models,...
