Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Baglihar: Third Umpire’s Way Out
The World Bank appointed Swiss Federal Institute of Technology expert Professor Raymond Lafitte as the neutral expert who heard the two sides over their...
Vying for the pilgrim pie
With an estimated value of 100 crores, Hajj and umrah services is emerging as a big market in Kashmir, boosting the entry of private...
Controversy continued
While the Central University in Kashmir is mired in land acquisition problems, its counterpart in Jammu is in a deeper mess, with a controversy...
Practicing tradition
In the times when allopathy is the most preferred system of medicine in Kashmir, there are many who still practice traditional medicine. Aliya Bashir...
Bride’s brutal departure
Police has rounded up six suspects to unravel the mystery around the death of a postgraduate girl student who’s body was fished out of...
Reducing trust deficit
India and Pakistan foreign secretaries’ meet at Islamabad has not made much headway though the two have prepared the ground and agenda for the...
June turmoil
For the third consecutive year, the month of June has turned out to be the most turbulent in Kashmir. Khursheed Wani reports
It may be...
Newsmakers
PLANNED: Panchayat elections will be held in October after almost a decade in J&K. Such elections were last held in early 2001, after a...
Enhancing soils anywhere enhances life everywhere
Dr. Seemin RubabThis is the theme of this year’s World Day to Combat Desertification which is observed every year on 17 June. The World...
Managing travel
When Aamir Suharwardy enrolled for a tourism management course at Aligarh Muslim University, many doubted his choice. Today he is manager in a top...
Guiding the industry
EDI programme is trying nurture industrial consultancy firms in J&K to boost the developing sector. Haroon Mirani reports.
To plug the lacunae of professional consultants...
Don’t stifle
The cross-LoC trade has run into rough weather time and again. The small list of tradable items is often subjected to pruning, with officials...
Protect Child Rights
DR. BASHIR A. DABLAAfter visiting Kashmir in late 2009 and meeting experts, professionals and organizations, to know and to observe the life conditions of...
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
All Parties Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq took out a surprise march to office of the United Nations Military Observers Group in...
Stop looking for the rabbit hole
Arshid Malik Having undergone what could be called the most distressful of situations, courtesy, the past more than twenty years of unrest, I am...
