Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Build Capacity
This summer’s tourist arrivals have been quite impressive. If the arrivals and the booking are any trend, this is going to be the best...
Suspended Animation
The bitterness within the ‘moderate’ Hurriyat does not seem to ebb as three leaders were suspended by the executive council and Shabir Shah demanded...
In crosshairs
No police chief has finished his innings in J&K in such a controversy as Kuldeep Khuda, one of the longest serving DGPs of the...
Newsmakers
ELECTED: Mohammed Shahnawaz Chaudhary has been elected the President and Pranab Shagotra as the Vice President of J&K Youth Congress. Chaudhary bagged 1,555 votes...
Briefing
Now comes Bollywood boost. Katrina Kaif whose father is presumed to be a Kashmiri, would fly in for the first time to shoot for...
Omar Abdullah
Revived
In 1975, when Sheikh M Abdullah bounced back to power with the help of Congress after 22 years, one major initiative was to give...
Deafening Dismissal
Reactions to interlocutors’ report
The interlocutors’ report managed not to surprise anyone in Kashmir. Reactions from the so-called separatist leaders, people ‘not in the mainstream’...
Another split in Hurriyat?
Shabir Shah and Nayeem Khan trying to pacify their supporters Photo:Bilal Bahadur
Already playing tension within the Mirwaiz led Hurriyat Conference spilled out in the...
News Notes
Another COMMITTEE
Finally state government has constituted a Task Force headed by the Administrative Secretary, General Administration Department, to look into the circumstances leading...
Briefing
SIACHEN
An investigation is underway about the crashing of a Cheetah chopper over the Siachen glacier. Its pilot Major Chandrashekhar Singh (Hajipur, Patna) was killed...
News Makers
DETAINED: Five members of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS), a Delhi based organization, were detained for few hours for locking the main gate of...
Engineer Abdul Rashid
By his attire he never looks like a legislator. His talking gives an impression of a man in a hurry. But he is a...
Taking Kashmir to the world
As e-commerce gains popularity throughout the world, Kashmir has produced its own version of the flipkart and e-bay albeit with a different USP. JUNAID...
Repairing chaos
The repair work at Zaina Kadal bridge has been halted as the water pipeline running across has to be relocated, creating a nuisance for...
Detention
By: ARSHID MALIK
When I was a child I was educated under a system that was practically designed to suit the needs and demands of the...
