Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
KAS interview tips
Shabir Khan1) There are generally 5 members at the board with the Chairperson seated at the centre. Enter confidently and greet the Chairperson, who...
Living bunkers
The CRPF has removed16 bunkers from city as a Unified Command measure to ease off tensions in the city, but with around 400 bunkers...
No curfew in cyber space
While people in Kashmir have remained indoors for the last almost four months, many have jumped on to the information highway as rise in...
Running in deficit
The state government has fallen behind in almost all developmental works in all regions making the excuse of unrest, for its failure to deliver...
Come Clean
In the just concluded session of the state legislature, the chief minister said the 110 youth killed in last four months by his police...
Acknowledging the obvious
Showkat AhmadThe first week of the nine day autumn session was by all means a colourful edition of the usually insipid state assembly. With...
Faith -The Sopore Connection
I have studied in a catholic school since age of three. Spending next 13 years of my life studying in a school which believes that Jesus is a son of God. Books filled with the stories of Jesus, Mary and the holy Ghost, with the stories of moral high of people like Mother Teresa and John of Arc, were distributed to us, free of cost.
Hot politics in cold desert
As demand for Union Territory status continues to emerge from Buddhist dominated Leh district of Ladakh region, almost all political parties are using it...
Yes men doomed for oblivion
Zamir AhmadOnce upon a time a king was served fried brinjal in dinner. Delighted with the preparation, he praised it lavishly. “It is the...
Enemy territory
People of Palhallan have been incarcerated in their homes without electricity and access to healthcare, nor are they allowed to harvest paddy or pick...
Lost Light
People who know him as a soft spoken doctor may find noted ophthalmologist Dr Bashir Ahmad a changed man. He gets angry frequently and sometimes talks aloud. No big change, after what he been seeing in the last three months of unrest.
Now, Omar talks dispute
Repressive policing, stringent curfews, 110 killings later Omar Abdullah is trying his rhetoric to reclaim some lost ground in Kashmir. Khursheed Wani reports. Chief...
A job nobody wants
Three weeks into New Delhi announcing appointing interlocutors on Kashmir, the government is yet to find a person for the job. Sources say nobody...
Newsmakers
PAID: The first assignment that J&K Bank’s new chairman Mushtaq Ahmad found for himself was to present Rs 56.70 crores cheque to the chief...
Newsmakers
Beaten up: Police on Friday beat up senior journalists, Mehrajudin of Associated Press TV and Mufti Islah of CNN-IBN near Bhagt Chowk in Srinagar....
