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.
Energy’s Newest Addresses
J&K state-owned profit-earning Power Development Corporation is awarding five projects to independent power producers, two of them state subjects, to add 131 MW to...
The Kandahar Daand
Many years after the accused in the sensational hijacking of an Air India aircraft from Kathmandu in 1999 to Kandahar were convicted, the police...
Unbundling power
As the J&K cabinet has approved plans of carving out four different companies from the huge power department to professionalize the basic service, will...
A Marathon Struggle
Once termed to be the ‘juggler vein of Kashmir’, Baghlihar symbolizes an achievement that has laid a strong foundation for the state’s future forays...
Upper Sindh-I: Completely Indigenous
The indigenously built power station has never stopped working with returns of several times the investment made in constructing the project, making some to...
Negotiating Power
Public discourse over J&K’s energy crisis has brought NHPC into sharp focus. A cabinet sub-committee, that revisited the history of the company’s ‘exploitative’ relationship...
Seminaries In Focus
Dar-ul-Ulooms and Madrassas have remained part of Kashmir’s Muslim ethos for centuries. Never ever have these institutions, preaching and teaching the faith, landed in...
A Dangerous Flood is Coming
Nature intervened at its own last week when it stopped rains shortly before the waters spill over the banks of Jhelum River. But Kashmir...
In The Name Of Dogs
Fed with high protein leftovers, the stray dogs breed faster than their cousins outside Kashmir. Society’s efforts to get the population reduced to manageable...
Inheriting Language of Turbulence
August 2011 marks the beginning of 24th year of the militancy in Kashmir, a phenomenon that did not only devour a generation in its...
Kashmir’s Last Maharaja
Signing instrument of accession and sitting silent over the massacre of Muslims in Jammu in the fall of 1947 were just two instances of...
In Good Faith
In the name of preservation of historical shrines, the government is building new structures within their premises, irking experts, who say these ugly brick...
Road To The World
Fifty thousand people living in a God-forsaken area in J&K may get a chance to access small amenities, hitherto a luxury for them as...
The Passage to India
Six politicians from J&K will join the Indian parliament this week. Eighty four have been elected in the last 14 parliamentary elections. Forget about...
Election’s moral battles
Parliament elections in J&K would have been a low key affair, but for two decisions by Election Commission of India – one pertaining to...
