Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
‘Industry should be exempted from curfews and strikes’
Shaqeel Qalander has been head of Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir (FCIK) from 2005, first as a caretaker chairman then as elected one for...
Future At Stake
Six years after the University of Kashmir introduced a specialised course in finance studies, Master of Finance and Control (MFC), the state recruiting agencies...
CRUMBLING EDIFICE
The great land of Pharaohs is all set for a political showdown. The powerful political edifice built over a period of more than three...
Thaw at Thimpu?
Ahmed RiyazThe talks between India, Pakistan look set to resume again after a pretty long and bitter hiatus. The relations between the two countries...
We need a centrifuge
Arshid MalikKashmir is in bad need of a politico-socio-economic centrifuge; a centrifuge that would isolate causations on a classical basis. This centrifuge I am...
Callous Commission
Zamir AhmadCallous! That is the one-word description of the most prestigious recruitment body of the state; the Public Service Commission. Even though the commission...
Belated commissioner
After a long long wait, J&K which was the first state to pass of right to information act at a time when the central...
Newsmakers
INSULTED: BJP activists attacked the vehicle of Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather’s vehicle and tore the state flag fxed on the car besides causing...
Embellishing legacy
Ali Muhammad Beigh’s family has brought laurels to state by excelling in the prized Sozni embroidery craft. What’s more, the family doesn’t want to...
Picking up threads
As India and Pakistan foreign secretaries hope to pick up the threads in Thimpu, officials in Delhi are skeptic of any major outcome. Retrieving...
Back in action
The summer unrest had confined the unionist politicians to their barricaded homes, but with things slowly easing off, many are out on streets, organising...
Leasing a lifeline
An ignorant public and an apathetic government had contributed to the rot of water bodies in Kashmir, however, a woken up government is putting...
A WORLD DISCOVERED
The snow-bound mountains surrounding the valley of Kashmir have always kept the world beyond, out of bounds for its denizens.For some the world outside...
Corrupted governance
Showkat Ahmad
Corruption and red-tape are the biggest hurdles to the development of various states in India, especially J&K, where the state of political affairs...
A sleepy village
Arshid MalikThere are some things about Kashmir and Kashmiri people that I have never been able to comprehend. For instance, I have noted all...
