The Winter Market
The traditional Pheran and Kangri may still be the most sought allies to beat the severe cold, but rising incomes and access to modern...
A Game Changer
As India and Pakistan were fighting over Kargil heights, a south Kashmir boy takes off for US to study. Nine years later, Khuram Mir...
Sindh’s ‘Changed’ Course
Ruling NC felt heat this summer when its charming patriach Dr Abdullah lost election for the first time. In quick follow-up, Abdullah scion left...
Kashmir’s Global Jihadists
Kokernag’s Ashraf Dar, the key Al-Qaeda operative whom an American drone killed in Waziristan, was not Kashmir’s first global warrior. The trend took off...
Deconstructing Disability
Last summer added scores to the already swelled list of conflict induced disables in Kashmir. In order to understand, how the unfortunate individuals are...
Islam’s First Kashmir Address
Islam existed in Kashmir even 200 years before Kalhana wrote his Rajatarangni. But the immigrants who would come as mercenaries and traders would mostly...
Is PDP Dead?
With almost half of her cabinet and a huge section of lawmakers out of the PDP, will the Mufti Sayeed’s dream project survive the...
Land Unlocked
The new land laws promulgated by the central government for Jammu and Kashmir have triggered a new wave of insecurity, reports Umar Mukhtar
On October 26,...
Sensing The Danger
We took some smart street questions on Covid19 and asked various specialists fighting the pandemic within and outside Kashmir hospitals. The responses made it...
Kangri Commerce
Kashmir’s history’s oldest tool against harshest winters has not evolved as a symbol of culture alone but a roaring business as well. Evaluating the...
Doing Science In Kashmir
The lack of infrastructure was the key brain drain factor as researchers would choose better global institutions for doing science. Under an impressive plan...
G20 In Kashmir
Months of preparations and tons of efforts resulted in an incident-free G20 TWG meeting amid unprecedented security measures in Kashmir. Discussions around sustainable development...
Waltengu Nar: A Hamlet of Broken Bones
As the distant down-south Waltengu Nar village was slowly recovering from the 2005 tragedy, where over 180 residents were frozen to death by a...
De-Stinging AFSPA
Both the government and opposition are talking loud about the need to repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and expressing helplessness to revoke...
J&K is NHPC’s Power House
India’s hydropower major NHPC has initiated the process of harvesting wind energy near Salal power station-its profit-making 690-MW flagship project in J&K. The idea...
