Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Lost genius
Super specialist doctors in Kashmir are unable to offer their services properly for lack of proper jobs forcing many others to fend for greener...
Kashmir on the precipice
Trouble in Baramulla comes on top on an unresolved Shopian crisis. While the trigger happy policing ensures that the people as well as the...
One man army
In his battle to prevent drug addiction, Dr Riyaz Ahmad, keeps an understaffed government de-addiction centre alive and kicking. Majid Maqbool meets the doctor...
Newsmakers
PREVENTED: Government prevented PDP president and leader of the opposition in J&K legislative assembly, Mehbooba Mufti, from visiting Baramulla. Mehbooba, along with a few...
Revamping Kashmir Economy
Dr Mubeen Shah
Kashmir Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) wants the 13th Finance Commission to make necessary recommendations that would guarantee the people of...
Ravaged economy needs liberal financial support
Shakeel Qalander
Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir (FCIK) sought liberal financial support from the 13th Finance Commission to transform a conflict economy into a self...
The Rs 40,000 Crore Meeting
For three days, last week, a series of close door interactions took place around Zabarwan Hills in Srinagar as the 13th Finance Commission team...
I think I should get a life!!!
Arshid Malik I am a nocturnal person by nature. Ever since I was a kid I used to keep awake through the nights which...
Prioritize
In a free market economy, protections are a problem. They are barriers and roadblocks. But in places like J&K, one of the fastest growing consumer markets in this corner of the world,such principles lack relevance, at least for the time being.
Farooq Ahmad
Inspector General of Police, CID Farooq Ahmad, has got a new assignment – to investigation various acts of omission and commission by the five cops
Organized mess
As everyone wants a private vehicle, authorities struggle to find road space and parking lots to smoothen their flow. Majid Maqbool reports. Continuing increase...
CALLING INDIA INC: SHOULD WE?
Historically, non-local investors have been coming to state as fortune hunters. Now J&K government is again inviting them. KASHMIR LIFE examines if the investors, with no...
Death of a town
The once serene old towns of Kashmir have lost their charm, thanks to the apathy of successive governments. Hamidullah Dar reports the neglect of...
370 challenger commemorated in JU
Hamidullah DarThe decision by J&K government to allow a convention to commemorate the 56th death anniversary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee – the founder president...
Will exhumation lead the way?
Investigations into Shopian rape and murder has been complicated by loss of critical evidence. Autopsy has been deemed inconclusive. The question now is whether...
