Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Policing the rivers
With the increase in incidences of drowning in Kashmir, the small team of rescue and recovery River Police is ill-equipped and lacks manpower to...
The ANNIVERSARIES
Moderate Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was not allowed to lay a foundation stone for a martyrs’ memorial and lead a rally to commemorate...
Newsmakers
INITIATED: Gujarat State Petronet Ltd (GSPL) led consortium is laying 3900 kms, three cross country inter-state natural gas pipelines. The three lines - The...
Swami Agnivesh
Social rights activist, Swami Agnivesh, while accompanying Anna Hazare on a visit to Gujarat, was approached by a man on the pretext of garlanding...
Soppy soaps
Arshid MalikWomenfolk screaming at the highest pitch of their voices “Everybody, it is time for dinner” accompanied by clinking sounds of china, glass and...
After osama
Ahmad RiyazThe fallout of the al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s killing in a US raid on Abbotabad is still playing out across South...
Save precious lives
The surge in traffic accidents in valley over the past few weeks resulting in the loss of many precious lives has once again generated...
Banking on Kashmir: 2011
Apart from employing around 20 thousand people directly, the banks operating in J&K are the backbone of state’s surging consumer market. Their performance in...
Protecting consumers
Consumer courts the readily accessible forums to settle disputes speedily without entailing any cost give consumers a safeguard against exploitation and unfair trade practices....
Not a liability
The declining female sex ratio in Jammu and Kashmir is attributed to social attitudes, which sees girl child as a liability, however, times are...
Conversations in the air!
Zamir AhmadThere is a narrative and other narrative. The narrative of the changing narratives is more fascinating than the narrative itself.”Travelling from Delhi to...
Take off blocked
A young Kashmiri aeronautical engineer was arrested and charged with waging war against the state. Five years later the court found him innocent and...
Legal victory
In the legal battle with the state government, Farooq Ahmad, the terminated ex-IGP came out victorious, after his retirement order was quashed.He had been...
Newsmakers
RELEASED: Teacher and columnist Syeda Afshana’s book ‘Freeze Frame: Glimpses from Kashmir’ – an anthology of essays - was released by VC KU Prof...
Sajid Iqbal
The 28-year-old budding lawyer Sajid Iqbal, was killed in a traffic accident near Awantipora at 1.00 am while returning to Srinagar from a wedding...
