Love @ LoC
With a cute mute Pakistani-Kashmir girl lost at Wagha border, actor Salman Khan created a highly emotional masala movie that happily ends at the...
The Jail In Neighbourhood
As the UT administration shifted the detained political class from a Boulevard Hotel to the Lawmakers’ Hostel, apparently for the winters, their families were...
A Jinxed Palace?
Overlooking the Dal Lake, a Gothic monster has proven to be inauspicious for everyone — from its builders to those interested in it post-partition. After...
SARFAESI Sales
Properties acquired by wilfully bank defaulters were always auctioned through protracted judicial processes, a system that SARFAESI law simplified. As Jammu and Kashmir is...
Minutes of The Meeting
The All Party Meeting that Prime Minister, Narendra Modi chaired last week could be a turning point for Kashmir politicians. Yawar Hussain talks to some...
Man Behind the Mask
Only an investigation will reveal if the Bandipora shootout that killed Altaf Dar, J&K Police’s larger than life investigator, was a chase or a...
IMPRISONED SCHOLARLY
Thousands of people were jailed in Kashmir since 1990’s. Their miserable lives in confinement notwithstanding; scores of them converted their cells into study centers...
Jammu At Political Crossroads?
As the delimitation exercise looks set to enhance the number of seats in Jammu and Kashmir assembly for Jammu, bringing it at par with...
Model in Mountains
At seven his father became part of Kashmir’s surging collateral damage and at 14 he was formally admitted to an orphanage. Nine years later,...
Collateral Damage
Days after estranged Syed Ali Geelani transferred ‘his property’ to an autonomous trust, Jama’at-e-Islami cried foul. The controversy brought once fair weather friends face...
Covid Champions
Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...
The Virus Hunter
At the forefront of the detection and control of the viral outbreaks within and outside the USA in the last more than 20 years...
Historic Exposé
As an unhappy soldier feeling pushed to the wall spilled beans, it helped Kashmir understand its contemporary history better. R S Gull revisits the...
circa 1947: A Long Story
After heading Information, Libraries and Archives Departments of J&K Government and retiring as Secretary of the Cultural Academy, Khalid Bashir Ahmad started probing the...
Curious Case Of Shah Faesal
After emerging as the poster boy in 2010 by topping the coveted IAS and breaking the psychological barrier to a new avenue of public...