Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Police launches a man hunt for shopian gang-rape accused
KL Report
Srinagar
Police have launched a manhunt for four people involved in a gang rape in Kanjimulla village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district.
According to reports,...
Losing Talent
Financial constraints and societal and government’s apathy has forced the Kashmir’s only Taekwondo player with an international degree to work at a petty car...
A Game of Perceptions
The summer agitation of 2008 over the transfer of 99 acre of forest land around the Amarnath cave to SASB to set up temporary...
DIVIDED WE STAND
Internet is a great source of knowledge and humour too. About the peculiar quality of divisions within Kashmiri, a post once said: one Kashmir...
A Welcome Change
The establishment of a Fruit Mandi in south Kashmir’s Kulgam town is gradually changing the fortunes of the exploited farmers. But the changing economic...
SHOPIAN’S APPLE BASKET
Seasonal blues and scant rainfall this year dealt a severe blow to the apple farmers of south Kashmir’s Shopian belt. With poor infrastructure in...
APPLE TOWN’S CRISIS
Kashmir’s biggest fruit Mandi in Sopore where traders from across the Indian subcontinent converge to purchase apples produced in orchards of north Kashmir is...
A FOR APPLE
With Rs 2500 crore plus turnover, the Apple cart is the main mover and shaker of Kashmir’s countryside economy. Marketing the produce was a...
Towards Crisis
For the first time, the judiciary has stepped in and stayed the election results of the valley’s apex trading body, Kashmir Chambers of Commerce...
News Notes
The Panch CRISIS
Nightmare for Panchs and Sarpanchs in Kashmir is far from over. They are again on the path of resignation spree through paid...
NEWSMAKERS
INFILITRATED: About 40 militants have infiltrated into Kashmir this year, said Lt General Om Prakash, GOC, Chinar Corps on the sidelines of a friendly...
Taj land Grab: The Dissolution Order
Chairman Legislative Council Amrit Malhotra on Monday dissolved the house penal that was supposed to investigate the land grab allegations against Congress minister Taj...
Abdul Majid Wani
R
egistration of criminal cases against lawmakers in Jammu and Kashmir is not a new thing. Reports of such cases appear in local newspapers and...
Quote
"They(Panchs and sarpanchs) are not any Maharajas, who need to be provided security at individual level."
Dr. Mustafa Kamal said on the sidelines of a...
Numbers
State Police chief says J&K has only 250-300 militants of whom 25-30 are in Jammu region.
NHPC paid 450 crores INR as water usage charges...
