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Business

This section contains the most exhaustive reportage on the state, status of business in Jammu and Kashmir.

Exceptional Carver

One of Srinagar’s oldest craftsmen, Ghulam Nabi Dar’s designs on the wood remain unmatched for their intricacy and detail, reports Khalid Bashir Gura In one...

Cursed Apple

With partial lockdown still in place, and around 20 thousand metric tonnes of apple still in CA stores across Kashmir, farmers and traders are...

The Transformer

He always dreamed of having his own independent business. Today, Nisar Baba’s manufacturing unit has developed into an award-winning company with uncompromising quality. Shams...

Women: Shrinking role

Findings of two censuses, 1981 and 2001, show how women in Kashmir are being limited to home primarily by the thick presence of troops. Hamidullah Dar reports.

Permanent deployment of forces for counter insurgency is not only about occupation of space – agriculture lands, public utilities and orchards, it essentially leads to greater contact with the civilian population resulting in friction that slowly and steadily takes its toll one way or the other. The hitherto unreported impact of this condition is reflected by rise in the number of female non-workers in Kashmir.
By working alongside men in fields and orchards, women have traditionally remained viably active in economic pursuits in Kashmir’s social set up. Besides managing almost half of the burden of activities in agriculture and horticulture sectors, women would collect fire-wood, medicinal plants and other produce from forests to add to the meagre resources at home. But all these activities now stand curtailed due to many factors, chief among them being the thick presence of forces.

TAAI-Up

As the state tourism ministry is trying to help revive the hospitality sector, facing a historic slump for the last three years, stakeholders suggest...

A Kazak In Kashmir

She was studying in Kazakhstan where she fell in love with a Kashmiri medical student. Finally, they landed in Kashmir where the Kazak bride...

Corn on the go

A simple idea that came outside a movie theater in Qatar helped two engineer friends introduce sweet corn carts in Kashmir. Umar Mukhtar tells...

Are we ready?

As another tourist season begins, and Kashmir hopes to cater to record number of visitors,  Haroon Mirani finds that infrastructure and policy hurdles are...

A ‘Ghost’ Market

In 2003, the Mufti government took over SKIMS, the Gupkar Nursing Home and Dr Ali Jan Shopping Complex from a Trust that the National...

One Stop Shops

Departmental stores are slowly replacing traditional grocery shops, and Kashmiris are finding the switch better suited to their busy lives. Syed Asma reports on...

Virtual Trade

With the Covid-19 pandemic dictating a new regime, most of the activities of life are getting into virtual mode. Owing to the communication blockade,...

Business of Politics

It is been argued since long that politics and business are hand in glove, but in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, they are...

Stuck in worries

The Joint J&K Chamber of Commerce has been more paralysed than the cross-LoC trade it was supposed to run. Unsupportive India and Pakistan Governments had...

Nun Chai Samavar

Now when electric power and a whole range of innovations have started impacting the traditional ways of cooking and serving Kashmir foods and tea,...

The Walnut Fudge

By Syed Asma   Have your ever tasted a Walnut Fudge! If not, then you are surely missing one of the most talked about exclusivity of...