Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Make Room
After the spine-chilling winter, Kashmir is readying for the summer. Almonds are blooming, so are tulips and an anticipated rush of tourists making authorities...
In Defense of Humans
Wasim BhatIn a manner of speaking the city has gone to the dogs, literally. They rule the streets of the city especially towards the...
A Village Remembers
Fourteen years have gone by since Ahagam was almost totally razed down during a gun battle between the army and militants, but scares of...
Singing His Way To Success
Young, determined and in Bollywood. Umer Beigh talks to a Kashmiri who is not afraid of taking chances.
Music has been a part of his...
Riding Healthy
A group of eco and health conscious young bankers wearing formal suites have started going to office riding bicycles. Tasavur Mushtaq reports about the...
IN MEMORIAM
Eternalising important moments in history as they happen is a faith. Kashmir lost one of its most remarkable journalists, Izhar Wani, last Wednesday. His...
Reporting Between The Lines
A Muslim policeman who flung a shoe at Indian Kashmir’s chief minister Omar Abdullah was hailed as a hero Monday, with thousands of people descending on his home village to congratulate his family.
Yasin Malik
After the Judicial Commission probing the Memogate controversy in Pakistan granted his request, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik deposed before...
Newsmakers
Honoured: Media Federation of India honoured the Director Information and Public Relations, Jammu and Kashmir State, Khawaja Farooq Renzushah with Media Excellence Awards-2012. He...
BADAMWARI
Abdullahs’ were on a day out. Mr and Mrs Dr Farooq Abdullah, son Omar, their locally settled daughter and her husband and son appeared...
UN Official in KASHMIR
Following the visit of UN special Rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya last year, UN Rapporteur, Christof Heyns arrived in Kashmir on a one and a half...
‘Sky Is the Limit For Cross LoC Trade’
He headed Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) at its most critical juncture. After his extended tenure was over, Dr Mubeen Shah flew...
Confidence Quotient
For nearly half of the year, the government is busy hawking the ‘peace dividend’. From the impressive tourist arrivals to the better management of...
Callously insensitive
Sameer YasirConstitutionally, India is a ‘democratic state’ wherein every individual, group or an institution can have its own beliefs and arguments or issues relating...
Burning Indifference?
A fire rages through the forests of Tral for several days, but eye witness accounts and government official statements seem poles apart. Bilal Kuchay...
