Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Barter’s Fear Factor
Traders who barter select merchandise at two windows on the LoC since October 2008 have managed an overall turnover of Rs 1600 crore since...
A CET Controversy
Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) is in news again for all the wrong reasons. With the announcement of CET 2012 results declared on...
Briefing
MIRPUR
Kashmiri nationalist, Marxist writer and politician barrister Qurban Ali Khan died in London at 81. His body was flown to Mirpur for burial. Born...
NEWSMAKERS
STARTED: Craft Development Institute, Srinagar has started a new innovative 2 year postgraduate course, master of Craft Management and Entrepreneurship, with an intake capacity...
HE Dalai Lama
Though he would fly every year to the summer palace that is built in Leh for him, HE the fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso...
Aiming High
With discipline and determination, two young Kashmiris topped a competitive examination. Junaid Nabi Bazaz talks with Mir Majid and Bazillah Bilal, both of whom...
Janitors of the world: Ants!
Arshid Malik
Where? Everywhere I tread in my house. Where do these creatures come from and assemble like an army within a minute or two....
What to blame?
July 3, 2012 was a day of indefatigable and infinite terrible incidents as stray dogs were at complete liberty to attack innocents irrespective of...
HEAL THYSELF, Dr.
Sometimes, lot many things happen on a particular front. That exactly happened on health sector last week when some interesting statistics were revealed. Dr...
RTI: Power and Vulnerability
Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat writes about how the RTI Act helps expose malpractice but has not helped bring about change in the system that...
Blazing Versions
The reasons behind the Dastgeer Sb. Shrine are yet not known but a number of theories are doing the rounds. Bilal Handoo Reports.
With the...
Raising cost of resistance
The state, it seems, can not run out of ideas. The police have suddenly become aware of its sealing powers, and is putting it...
Yatra Travails
The Central Forces left bitter taste again in local mouths when they allegedly went berserk and injured six Taxi drivers at Chandanwari, Pahalgam.
Eyewitness accounts...
SehDev Rohmetra
Journalism in Jammu and Kashmir lost another old hand as Editor-in-Chief of Daily Excelsior SehDev Rohmetra or S D Rohmetra -- as he was...
Resigning Leaders
To strengthen the governance at grass root levels, Panchayat elections were held last year. It was after a gap of three decades that panchs...
