Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
In Batalik Sector
After travelling through lifeless mountains for around three hours and covering and distance of about 100 kilometres from Kargil town, one reaches a small...
No Fear of Cold
Bazgo is the only power project in the arid Ladakh desert that is functional in winter but shuts down during springs to spare water...
Lighting up LoC
The 2-MW power project at Karnah has run into rough weathers at least twice, now the PDC is up-rating it to 12-MW generation, finds...
Baby’s Health Out!
Bashir Mir
The healthcare scenario in Kashmir does not exude much confidence either in the patients or the medical fraternity itself. From primary to tertiary...
A Revealing Story
The J&K Police is the biggest villain for the Central Reserve Personnel Force (CRPF) deployed in the Valley according to a 23-page study -...
The Resource
The Indus Water Treaty has given Islamabad rights over three J&K rivers – Chenab, Indus and Jhelum with an average flow of 135 million...
News Notes
Remembering TUFAIL
The trauma returned this week when Kashmir observed a shutdown to remember all the youth killed during 2010 civilian unrest. The tragedy...
BRIEFING
SRINAGAR
Justice Mahesh Mittal Kumar is the new Chief Justice of J&K High Court. Born in 1953, he graduated in law from Punjab University,...
Newsmakers
CLUBBED: Mohammed Akbar Lone, Speaker Legislative Assembly decided to club two relevant petitions filed by two groups of BJP. One group headed by Prof...
Crime and Policing
The volatile political conditions of Kashmir have earned the state police not so pleasant an image, but efficient counterinsurgency and surveillance methods evolved over...
Making Pharma Relevant
Lured by a liberal industrial policy to the Jammu plains, pharma majors want policy makers to initiate change that will make the sector suit...
Newsmakers
HIRING: Department of posts, J&K circle, has decided to recruit 274 youth, 113 from Kashmir and 161 from Jammu as Grameen Dak Sewaks within...
Azam Inquilabi
For almost all his life Azam Inquilabi has been ardent separatist. His tryst with the “resistance movement” started much early in his life. At...
Echo: A case study
ZUBAIR LONE
In Greek and Roman mythologies, gods are the superior most divinities. Gods are followed by Nymphs. They are lesser divinities represented as young...
Professional Switches
By: S Rehman
Kashmiri society has always been myopic when it comes to choosing careers. Never have the wishes and aspirations of a person been...
