Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
National Conference
Be it the death of Haji Yousuf, sacking of Mustafa Kamal or partial removal of AFSPA, the ruling National Conference managed to stay in...
The Impunity Law
A colonial era law adopted and applied by the Indian Parliament to J&K in 1990 kept taking its toll – political as well as...
The Muslim Clergy
Conversions to Christianity, the idea of reopening liquor shops and cinema halls and government funding for Madrass as were controversies the clergy and the...
Congress Making Inroads
The state unit of the Congress arty was busy expanding youth membership and Rahul Gandhi’s visit was used to trump the party fortunes among...
Building The PDP
The PDP after failing to pull the government down when it seemed easily possible has realized that the best course to stay is building...
Google in Kashmir
It was that kind of a high profile visit, by the cutting edge technical team of the world’s best known brand and search engine,...
Harud ‘Litfest’
A ‘controversial’ litfest was ‘cancelled’ after the best known Kashmiri authors refused to participate and endorsed an open letter questioning its motives. The proposed...
Panchayat Polls
The election of thousands of Panches and Sarpanches to village bodies was trumped as percolation of ‘democracy’ down to the grassroots level, but the...
Abc Of Power Distribution
Energy deficit, particularly electricity supply, has been a bane for the state government and the people. Part of the problem is mismanagement, inability to...
Newsmakers
ALLEGED: Even after completion of first unit of 11 MWs of Chutokhydroelectric Kargil is still in darkness. Hassan Khan, the MP alleges theconcerned agencies...
Ali Mohammad Sagar
Senior minister in the state government and a family confidante of Abdullahs, Ali Mohammad Sagar, escaped a bid on his life last week. Unidentified...
BANDIPORE
Politically sensitive Bandipore erupted last week when Congress state president Prof Saif ud Din Soz drove there with a high level delegation comprising ministers...
Strike against STRIKERS
Old city witnessed shutdown but with a different reason this time. It was against the people who generally enforce it- stone pelters. This was...
Shortage of Cadavers in Kashmir
In a place where unnatural death has been common and thousands lie buried in unidentified graves, a shortage of cadavers for medical research and...
Suffering With Referrals
The district hospitals and sub centers, in every district of Kashmir, suffer from what many would call “refer disease”. From the headache to an abdominal pain everything gets referred to hospitals of Srinagar.
