Kashmir’s Precious Births
With Jammu and Kashmir’s fertility rate falling to an all-time low of 1.4, well below replacement level, every birth has become precious. Even as...
Jammu Kashmir’s Medical College Network
NMC recognition rollback for SMVDIME has set a precedent, raising fears that it could derail approvals and expansions at other new medical colleges in...
Kashmir’s Chicken Neck
Kashmir’s Rs 1,500 crore poultry industry, once largely self-reliant, is sliding into crisis as unregulated imports surge and local production nosedives. Policy gaps have...
Kashmir In 2025
2025 in Jammu and Kashmir was a year of ambition and anxiety, where infrastructure advances, political restoration, violence, natural disasters, and governance tensions unfolded...
Kashmir’s River of Knowledge
From Buddhist scholastic prose to Shaiva philosophy, satire, stories, and historiography, Kashmir’s literature evolved as a disciplined, self-aware civilisation. This all started almost two...
Kashmir Cricket: Glory Amid Gridlock
Auqib Nabi’s IPL breakthrough spotlights Kashmir’s cricketing promise, even as deep governance failures, opaque selections, and prolonged administrative turmoil within Jammu Kashmir Cricket Association...
Kashmir: The Vanishing Sarkari Noukri
In Jammu and Kashmir, the state workforce is shrinking fast as recruitment slows and contractual hiring rises. As the salaries decline, pensions soar, unemployment...
America’s Kashmiri Milk Scientist
From a Kashmiri village, Dr Shakeel-ur-Rehman travelled to Gujarat, Ireland and then to a leading American university. When Texas cattle farmers sought his help...
Kashmir: The Golden Card Impact
Across Jammu and Kashmir, families long burdened by medical uncertainty are experiencing a quiet transformation, as health-insurance coverage replaces fear with dignity, timely treatment,...
Kashmir: The Nowgam Nightmare
A late-night explosion at Nowgam Police Station, caused during forensic handling of seized chemicals, killed nine, injured dozens, and revived Kashmir’s long history of...
Kashmir: The Delhi Trail
Starting with a single poster, Kashmir’s police followed the faintest dots to uncover a sophisticated terror module involving well-placed professionals, held responsible for the...
Kashmir: Redefining Journalism?
After legislators decried shrinking press freedom, the Jammu and Kashmir government issued fresh verification orders for journalists, triggering fears of control and deepening anxiety...
Budgam Poll: Agas In The Ring
Budgam heads to the ballot amid dissent, rivalries, and rifts within the influential Aga family. What started as a routine by-election has evolved into...
Kashmir: New Parliamentarians
In the first Rajya Sabha election held after 2019, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference retained three seats while the BJP secured one, triggering...
Kashmir: Undoing Art 370
The BlueKraft Digital Foundation book 370: Undoing the Unjust: A New Future for J&K, gives an insider’s account of the planning and execution of...
