Fierce Face-off
In the aftermath of the horrific car bomb explosion, India availed the extreme option of getting deep into Pakistan for a hit. Pakistan retaliated...
Good Samaritans
The crisis that engulfed India’s emotional sphere after a car bomb rammed into a CRPF convoy created a frightening situation for Kashmiri students in...
Highway Horror
When an explosives-laden car driven by a militant ambushed a convoy driving paramilitary men who were to resume their duties in Srinagar, 49 personnel...
Altering Ratle
An 850-MW power project within less than three-km radius is a prized possession. After state government experimented with the Chenab basin Ratle project near...
Bye George
After emerging as a rebel in Indian politics, George Fernandes was involved in Kashmir, directly and indirectly, for a long time. In tumultuous 1990s,...
Chaotic Politics
With many politicians keen to fight for Jammu and Kashmir’s leadership and are in the process of either strengthening their base or creating their...
Tral’s Gufkrals’
On the foothills of Tral is a maze of caves that is an established archaeological site offering details about the early settlements of mankind...
Justice Denied: Sopore 1993
Dubbed as militancy capital, the Sopore town was subjected to a series of carnages and arson during the 1990s. After 45 coffins of charred...
Business of Death
Unlike most of the Muslim societies, the death in parts of Kashmir triggers a protracted commercial exercise that involves a set of professionals and...
Slaying At Sirnoo
Seven civilians were killed after an encounter in Pulwama saw the killing of three militants and an army man in an apple orchard hideout....
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...
Kashmir’s Organ Donors
When a Sikh girl from Udhampur heard her Muslim friend from Rajouri, admitted in SKIMS, requires a kidney, she took moments to offer one....
Hot Pursuit
The gun battles have kept Kashmir on the edge as 600 militants stand killed since the fateful Bamdoora encounter in 2016. The battles have...
Designing a Disruption
When the Governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved Kashmir’s dormant assembly, minutes after two claims attempted landing in his Raj Bhawan at Jammu, it was...
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,...
