Masood Hussain
TAAI-Up
As the state tourism ministry is trying to help revive the hospitality sector, facing a historic slump for the last three years, stakeholders suggest...
Pushing Spending
At the core of state budget is a serious push to public spending so that the economy moves out of the shadows of GST-demonetization impact....
“PhD scholars, people who have done their masters are leaving a possibility of a...
NC Working President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tells Masood Hussain
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): How you see the security situation at a time when...
Do You Believe This?: J&K Spends Rs 10871 Cr on Eggs, Milk, Mutton and...
by Masood Hussain
JAMMU: Despite making it a mass campaign in the last few years, the Jammu & Kashmir state has failed to emerge a...
Suicide bomber: Myth and the reality
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: In the run-up to the Republic Day function when the Kashmir Police Chief issued a warning about a “suicide bomber” being...
Panchayat Gamble?
Amid trade hope that 2018 summer will break the slump triggered by 2014 floods and the 2016 unrest, the ruling BJPDP coalition has announced...
Know, how much JK Govt spends daily and where from it earns
by Masood Hussain
JAMMU: The government does look very different from a household when it comes to managing the state on daily basis. Finance Ministry...
#JKBudget2018: J&K spending Rs 80313 Cr, 59% comes from Delhi
by Masood Hussain
JAMMU: J&K is anticipated to spend Rs 80313 crore in fiscal 2018-19 which is around Rs 9000 crore more in comparison to...
1st Mufti Memorial Lecture explains how referendums and democracy helped UK to reinvent itself
by Masood Hussain and Tahir Bhat
JAMMU: On the second death anniversary of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, there was an emphasis on resolving issues democratically. A...
Did Sheikh Abdullah go to office in a car seized from Air Marshall Asgar...
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: The death of Air Marshal Asgar Khan has triggered a chain of mournings and remembrances on the social websites. The reason:...
Middlemen Mafia
A dispassionate overview of Kashmir society clearly indicates, its every facet of life is in control of brokers, from faith to market and to...
An Elusive Brand
From the days, Kashmir fell into the lap of Mughals, Kashmir remained a brand. Half a millennium later, it is facing a crisis, reports...
Cry, Not Bite
By Masood Hussain
I am pretty embarrassed; I told the official function of the SHRC, the main official watchdog for civil liberties in the state,...
An ‘Outsider’ Account
Within a year after her retirement, IAS officer Sonali Kumar came out with a book that seemingly attempts strengthening a narrative that has a...
Sanctum Security
Part of the faith heritage, shrines help decipher Kashmir’s historic and socio-economic narrative. In twenty-first century, a shrine is lost to a fire every...





















