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: The MBBS Flights
Hamstrung by limited seats across Jammu and Kashmir’s 13 medical colleges and burdened by a skewed reservation policy, nearly 1,500 aspirants migrate abroad each...
Kashmir: A New Bank Is Born
Following the central government's directive to consolidate rural banks within states and union territories into single entities, Jammu and Kashmir now has a new...
Kashmir: Escaping Poverty or Masking It?
The latest Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) report suggests Jammu and Kashmir’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has improved from 12.56 to 4.80 per cent in...
Kashmir: The Tech Trouble
Days following Operation Sindoor witnessed the first cyber war. Jammu and Kashmir government, which spent more than Rs 300 crore and emerged as one...
Kashmir: The War Rewired
India and Pakistan have fought several wars since 1947, but the four-day confrontation in May 2025 was distinct, historic, not for boots on the...
Kashmir: The Water War?
Days after the 2016 Uri attack, Prime Minister Modi asserted that blood and water cannot flow together. In April 2025, he presided over the...
Pahalgam Massacre
Kashmir was overflowing with tourists, and life was completely peaceful. Then a killer gang descended onto an off-track Pahalgam meadow, massacred 26 tourists and...
Farooq Abdullah: Trapped by Trust
Dr Farooq Abdullah, five-time Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and former RAW chief AS Dulat have shared a bond spanning nearly four decades....
Kashmir’s Insured Crops
Crop insurance reached Kashmir five seasons after Jammu, covering 2.45 lakh farmers and collecting Rs 98 crore premium in 2023–24, but paid only Rs...
Jammu Kashmir: A Budgeted Session?
Expected to be stormy, the 21-day budget session in Jammu evoked old legislative memories, but lawmakers felt constrained in voicing the street-level issues and...
Kaman Post: Run Up to Reopening
Kaman Post is a roaring tourist spot. Closed for cross Line of Control (LoC) travel since late 2018, the spot was the major headline...
Ramzan In Jammu
With Jammu, the erstwhile capital of an erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state, getting impressive Kashmir crowds this winter and the month of fasting, Masood...
Jammu Kashmir Government Rejected 86 Percent of Claims Made Under Forests Rights Act
by Masood Hussain
JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir government revealed that the majority of the claims made by people under the Forests Rights Act (FRA)...
Kashmir: A House Demolition
Constituted within months after the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State adopted its constitution in 1957, the legislative council became history when the Lok Sabha...
Kashmir Assembly: Battling Memory
As the top BJP leader resorted to derogatory remarks against the 1931 martyrs, the Jammu Kashmir assembly’s motion of thanks on LG’s address got...
