Hot heads & cold hearts
Tarique A Bhat No recent or ongoing unrest in North, South and Central Kashmir has received much attention in the media outside Kashmir. Why...
A rooted artist
Embracing a sidestepped mother tongue, theatre director Arshad Mustaq tells Majid Maqbool that he tries his bit to revive Kashmiri language and culture through...
Unrest in China’s Muslim Xinjiang
China has raised the death toll from ethnic rioting in the far western region of Xinjiang to 184, the state Xinhua news agency reported...
Reid & Taylor strengthens Kashmir Bond
Global fabric giant Reid & Taylor is procuring more tweed from Kashmir and promises to showcase it in a big way. Haroon Mirani reports.
Strengthening...
Struggle against forgetfulness
In 2008, Kashmir made a transition from violence to non-violence. But the state responded with the same iron fist – volleys of bullets met...
WITHDRAWING CRPF
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah stumbles on his moves to replace the CRPF by police, stating that state lacked enough police strength. What nobody tells...
Weather blues
Subnormal temperatures are making the summer pleasant but crops are bearing the brunt. Haroon Mirani reports on the threats of erratic weather to crops...
A Trust Questioned
The major custodian of Muslim properties in Kashmir, Waqf or Auqaf, has remained beyond scrutiny for decades, though its management of donations and assets...
Confusion confounded
He described the autopsy and forensic reports of Shopain rape and murder inconclusive, but Justice Jan himself came out not only with an inconclusive...
Not a human’s job
For two decades, Maqbool was the only autopsy man in Kashmir. He tells Zubair A. Dar that knifing thousands of bodies has taken toll...
Newsmakers
SNUBBED: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has snubbed state Congress leaders including Ghulam Nabi Azad for questioning “visible administrative inexperience” of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah....
Successful entrepreneur, empowered woman
Mir Javeed profiles the success story of Nuzhat Maqbool, a young and successful entrepreneur, who is the only female distributor of Fast Moving Consumer...
Home Ministry’s Kashmir Plan
Kashmir was given a slip in Home Minister P Chidambharam’s plan I. But the second plan has not only a mention, but specific details...
J&K is NHPC’s Power House
Power starved J&K is a major power source for mainland India as NHPC derives half of its power and revenue from its facilities in...
Kashmir: The Birth of a Bank
Kamraz Rural Bank and Jammu Rural Bank merge to form J&K Grameen Bank, R S Gull reports.
After a three-year wait for the Union finance...
