Curtains Fall
After August 5 shutdown, most of the courier and the parcel delivery companies working with the e-commerce outlets have closed forcing almost 500 young...
Cursed Numbers
Focus on particular registration numbers during routine wayside searches by the security grid has impacted the resale value of some vehicles, reports Umar Mukhtar
Every...
Parking Paupers
For more than 125 days, neither the parking lots nor the octroi posts worked. Since they have paid hefty sums to get these spaces...
Exporting Entertainment
With the closure of internet, one of the key sectors that suffered severely in a highly stressed society was the entertainment. Understanding the emerging...
Silent Sufferers
After more than 100 days of lockdown, as parts of Kashmir witness semblance of normalcy, people are finally out of their closets to tell...
Labour Deficit
In run-up to August 5, when the government issued advisory asking non locals to leave Kashmir immediately, tens of thousands of skilled and migrant...
Blockade Devastation
Switching off the internet and mobile communication has not hit the software development and BPO alone but has rendered thousands jobless in other sectors...
Keeping The Date
For managing 365 days and decorating the kitchen walls, Kashmir alone consumes almost three million wall calendars a year. Detailed the supply and demand,...
Bad Business
Since the inflated Jhelum devastated Kashmir in 2014, the business is yet to show a real sign of recovery. It was demonetisation followed by...
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...
Between Credit And Debit
The banking statistics offers enough of details to understand the phenomenon why Kashmir was restive over the JK Bank issue unlike other places, reports...
A Flawed Decision
The change of nomenclature from Sadr-e-Riyasat to Governor was Jammu and Kashmir’s political disenfranchising. If the arbitrary attempts at classifying J&K Bank from a...
An Ageing Bazaar
A small Bijbehara market with narrow lanes and wooden shop lines shares its evolution and decline with Srinagar’s Maharaja Bazaar. The Jhelum River, the...
A Crisis, An Opportunity
Losses to Kashmir apple orchards can be assessed properly only after the government’s final survey is over. Amid mass mourning over the recent calamity,...
Knitting Dreams
A young hospital management professional has converted her passion for crocheting into her profession and she sells her art online, reports Samreena Nazir
As one...
