Belling The Cat
The state government has set up a monitoring committee to evaluate the infrastructure of private coaching centers and accordingly revise their registration annually. While...
Capitalizing Peace
Banks are flush with money but quite a few locals are willing to risk and invest in a place ravaged by conflict and turmoil...
Khyber’s Gulmarg Entry
Creating a Rs 120 crore world-class luxury resort marks the beginning of Khyber Group’s entry into the hospitality sector. Market and the government foresee...
Breaking Tradition
Khawar Jamsheed is the only line-producer from the valley who has tirelessly worked with Bollywood directors to bring them back to the scenic landscapes...
A Welcome Change
The establishment of a Fruit Mandi in south Kashmir’s Kulgam town is gradually changing the fortunes of the exploited farmers. But the changing economic...
SHOPIAN’S APPLE BASKET
Seasonal blues and scant rainfall this year dealt a severe blow to the apple farmers of south Kashmir’s Shopian belt. With poor infrastructure in...
APPLE TOWN’S CRISIS
Kashmir’s biggest fruit Mandi in Sopore where traders from across the Indian subcontinent converge to purchase apples produced in orchards of north Kashmir is...
A FOR APPLE
With Rs 2500 crore plus turnover, the Apple cart is the main mover and shaker of Kashmir’s countryside economy. Marketing the produce was a...
Towards Crisis
For the first time, the judiciary has stepped in and stayed the election results of the valley’s apex trading body, Kashmir Chambers of Commerce...
In Bad Light
The J&K tourism department’s hoardings are asking the natives to behave with tourists. Sameer Yasir offers an alternate narrative on how Goa, one of...
Meaty Needs
As the faithful Muslims throng markets in Srinagar to purchase sacrificial animals on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha, it is the beauty and elegance of...
A Fading Art
Kashmir produces one of the world’s most expensive handmade carpets but the artisans associated with the lucrative Qaleen industry are abandoning the trade of...
Karewa Craftsmen
Pampore is usually associated with the costly spice Saffron. But it is rare public knowledge that a vibrant apparel cluster is fighting odds to...
The Cross LoC Circus
As cross LoC trade completes four years, the state government has increased the overall infrastructure and requested New Delhi to include 98 more items...
The Black Sheep
Kashmir produces seven million kg of wool a year but lacks the capacity to process even one per cent of it. Sold at throwaway...
