Masood Hussain
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...
Famous Faiz Poem Bol Ki Lab Azad Hein Teray Was For Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: In a startling revelation, a Pakistani newspaper on Wednesday reported that one of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s most revolutionary poem Bol Ki...
Batagund Encounter: The Complete Story
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: In an overnight operation, six militants and an army man were killed in Batagund village near Kapran. In the subsequent protests...
Why JK Bank Downgrade Is Being Seen As A Bad Decision?
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: With politics frozen ahead of winter, the enigmatic decision-making by the governor’s administration on the J&K Bank has started triggering heat and...
The Unmaking of Kashmir Assembly: The Complete Story
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: Unpredictability has remained the hallmark of Kashmir: its weather, situation and politics. Though the situation was brewing for many months, it...
A Crisis, An Opportunity
Losses to Kashmir apple orchards can be assessed properly only after the government’s final survey is over. Amid mass mourning over the recent calamity,...
Building On The Ball
In the I-League’s first season, the 2-year old Real Kashmir has won and lost a match each and the third ended in a draw....
American Explorers Get Into Kalaroos Caves, Explode Generational Myths
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: The age-old myth that the Kalaroos caves in Kupwara are leading to Rous, Russia, has finally been exploded. These caves, located...
Mayor Making
As independents dominated the outcome of Srinagar’s lowest-polled municipal election, the politics reinvented the past to create a future that is in a sharp...




















