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Friday, April 19, 2024
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Cover Story

This is the major copy on most important happening in a week that usually features on page one of the magazine

Shopian: Emergence of another bloodied landmark of control in Kashmir

By: PARVAIZ BUKHARI The culprits of double rape and murder in Shopian may be criminals in uniform, but the series of damning official cover-ups so...

ASHA Nirasha

Overworked, underpaid and vulnerable to infection, around 20,000 ASHA workers are practically the first line of defence against the contagion, especially in the Kashmir...

Left Alone

The faces symbolising the battle for justice are fighting at many fronts. While the world knows their protracted struggle to get justice from the...

Envoys In Srinagar

The latest visit by 24 foreign diplomats to Kashmir and Jammu coincided with various other developments in the region, a Team KL report On February 17, the...

Women in woods

Wazwan country surely knows the grammar and the complicacies that go into the making of the feast but not the costs mutton production entails...

Living On The Edge

Accessibility is the first casualty when it snows. But this is just one of the vulnerabilities with which about seven million people have survived...
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Surviving The Heroin Crush

After almost nine quiet deaths in north Kashmir, there are scores literally fighting for life as they have spent millions in managing their Heroin-thirst....

Touch-and-Go

In 2015, Mufti Sayeed took two months to negotiate a common minimum programme with BJP. Ten months later, his daughter spent a quarter in...

Reso-Nation

As strife created gulf for expression for pain and despair, the feeble movement of turmoil art took over. Soon the internet as the vast...

The Bride With A Bomb?

Yasmeena Akhter is claimed by Kashmir militants as a suicide bomber and a martyr. But was she? Basharat Peer pieces together the story of...

CAN OMAR REGAIN KASHMIR?

  For J&K’s youngest ever chief minister there is more to hide than show in the first six months of governance. The road ahead is...
Amarnath Mess

Paying obeisance,not heed

SAMEER YASIR treks up to the Amarnath cave shrine via Baltal in Sonmarg. He is appalled by the amount of pollution the annual pilgrimage...
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The Killer Heroin

Gone are the days when Heroin was just passing through Kashmir. Now its use is gradually overtaking other drugs and the economically well-off are...

The College Crisis

With a huge network of colleges and a lot of enrolment, the students are dissatisfied with the pace and process of the education they...

Acid Test

Sufferings of remote Kupwara in last two decades created an ideal situation for any unconventional politician to have his debut, an opportunity that a...