Saima Bhat
Driven Over
Last week, Kashmir witnessed another harrowing clip of a killing recorded by some citizen journalist. Saima Bhat visited the family to understand the boy...
Islam’s First Kashmir Address
Islam existed in Kashmir even 200 years before Kalhana wrote his Rajatarangni. But the immigrants who would come as mercenaries and traders would mostly...
Withdrawing cases against stone pelters, announcing ceasefire needs courage, PM Modi says in Srinagar
by Saima Bhat
SRINAGAR: During his daylong visit to the three regions of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi reiterated that development is the...
“As an Indian, I owe an apology to Ghalib, Tabassum and Kashmir”
Karnataka poet and writer Samwartha ‘Sahil’ was in Srinagar for a week. In 2016, he was tasked to write a book on Kashmir. He...
General’s statement: Parties Dare Mehbooba Mufti To Act
by Saima Bhat
SRINAGAR: Reacting to the claims that J&K Assembly is the most powerful assembly in India, independent Lawmaker MLA Langate Er Rasheed said...
Plastic Millionaires
The ever-increasing consumption is massively throwing heaps of plastic, iron and paper packaging almost everywhere in urban and peripheral Kashmir. It is a huge...
Drubgam encounter: The complete story
by Saima Bhat
SRINAGAR: Two Hizb ul-Mujahideen militants and a civilian were killed in a gunfight that started during wee hours of Monday morning in Drubgam village of...
Hang Till Death
As Chief Minister announced a mandatory capital punishment in cases of rape of children, Saima Bhat reports the two cases from Kashmir in which...
Juvenile culling?
The most vulnerable section of the demography in a conflict situation is women. But children also have their share of miseries. A human rights...
Khudwani encounter: The Complete Story
by Saima Bhat
SRINAGAR: Four civilians and one army personnel were killed in the Khudwani encounter that broke out late night on Tuesday. The operation...
Dateline SMHS
With their covered eyes and sullen faces, the young men admitted to various hospitals in Srinagar for various kind of injuries, offer a distinctly...
Blurred Distinctions
Rulers for ages pitted a hungry peasant against a city dweller who paid double the cost to the autocrat for every grain of fleece...
South Kashmir Encounters: The Complete Story
A Team KL Report
SRINAGAR: In three operations that started in the dead of the night sent an unprecedented number of body bags within and...
Aircel: Out of reach
As Aircel, the second largest cell phone service provider controlling 30 percent market in the state closed its shop, following its bankruptcy, it has...
“1648 growers are doing wonderful business of flowers”
It has been a long time since 1995 when Mathoora Masoom cracked Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS). Before taking over as Director of the Floriculture...
