Masood Hussain
Altering Ratle
An 850-MW power project within less than three-km radius is a prized possession. After state government experimented with the Chenab basin Ratle project near...
Road Collapse Wrecks Havoc, Read How Much It Costs Kashmir
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: With the Srinagar Jammu highway closed for eight days, Kashmir is paying through its nose. It may not have anything to...
Bye George
After emerging as a rebel in Indian politics, George Fernandes was involved in Kashmir, directly and indirectly, for a long time. In tumultuous 1990s,...
Bawa Jitto and BSF
Everytime rival armies exchange shells, Kanachak moves to newspaper front pages. The region has fascinating stories that usually get buried under the debris of...
Justice Denied: Sopore 1993
Dubbed as militancy capital, the Sopore town was subjected to a series of carnages and arson during the 1990s. After 45 coffins of charred...
Kathpora Encounter: The Complete Story
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: A mixed contingent of the police, army and CRPF killed al-Badr outfit’s topmost militant, Zeenat-ul-Islam along with his colleague Saturday night....
Sins Stink
The politics within the various factions making the SMC triggered a crisis within the class that led to the collapse of the basic activity....
Vohra Void
Narinder Nath Vohra was on a dental chair when Home Ministry conveyed him that his tenure is over. Later, he spent a few nights...
Bad Business
Since the inflated Jhelum devastated Kashmir in 2014, the business is yet to show a real sign of recovery. It was demonetisation followed by...
Re-Modified Wave
In anticipation of the general elections as the ruling BJP lost assembly polls in five states, contested on basis of Ram Janam Bhoomi and...
Budget 2019-20: Running J&K Costs Rs 243.5 Cr Daily
By Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir would be spending a whopping Rs 88911 crore in the next fiscal starting April 1, 2019, and two-thirds...
Sirnoo Encounter: The Complete Story
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: It was yet another gun battle between the counter-insurgent forces and the militants. But the killing of seven civilians and injuries to...
Between Credit And Debit
The banking statistics offers enough of details to understand the phenomenon why Kashmir was restive over the JK Bank issue unlike other places, reports...
Roshni Blackened
NC devised a controversial scheme aimed at selling state land to the people who had encroached upon and generate a corpus that will fund...
Designing a Disruption
When the Governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved Kashmir’s dormant assembly, minutes after two claims attempted landing in his Raj Bhawan at Jammu, it was...




















