Banking In Kashmir 2025
As fintechs eat into payment systems, banks in Jammu and Kashmir are losing not just market share but also relevance. With digital platforms now...
Kashmir: The MBBS Flights
Hamstrung by limited seats across Jammu and Kashmir’s 13 medical colleges and burdened by a skewed reservation policy, nearly 1,500 aspirants migrate abroad each...
Kashmir’s Single Fathers
In Kashmir, the struggles and resilience of single fathers are often overlooked in a society where emotional caregiving is predominantly seen as a mother’s...
2025: Kashmir’s Silent Eid
As Eid-ul-Azha nears, Kashmir’s festive spirit is dimmed by economic hardship, subdued markets, and a steep decline in consumer spending. From silent sacrificial stalls...
Kashmir: An Urban Overhaul
Jammu and Kashmir’s Housing and Urban Development Department is undergoing a major reorganisation aimed at cost-cutting and efficiency, but critics warn of weakened public...
Kashmir’s Summer of Silence
Rallying on the high of 2024’s sentiment, Kashmir’s tourist season opened strong in early 2025, with optimism in the air and record footfall on...
Kashmir: The War Rewired
India and Pakistan have fought several wars since 1947, but the four-day confrontation in May 2025 was distinct, historic, not for boots on the...
Kashmir: Almost A War
Massacre of 26 innocents in an off-track Pahalgam meadow, India and Pakistan are engaged in a confrontation that is gradually inching towards a war...
Kashmir: The Water War?
Days after the 2016 Uri attack, Prime Minister Modi asserted that blood and water cannot flow together. In April 2025, he presided over the...
Pahalgam Massacre
Kashmir was overflowing with tourists, and life was completely peaceful. Then a killer gang descended onto an off-track Pahalgam meadow, massacred 26 tourists and...
Farooq Abdullah: Trapped by Trust
Dr Farooq Abdullah, five-time Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and former RAW chief AS Dulat have shared a bond spanning nearly four decades....
Jammu Kashmir: A Budgeted Session?
Expected to be stormy, the 21-day budget session in Jammu evoked old legislative memories, but lawmakers felt constrained in voicing the street-level issues and...
Kaman Post: Run Up to Reopening
Kaman Post is a roaring tourist spot. Closed for cross Line of Control (LoC) travel since late 2018, the spot was the major headline...
Ramzan In Jammu
With Jammu, the erstwhile capital of an erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state, getting impressive Kashmir crowds this winter and the month of fasting, Masood...
Kashmir: The Vanishing Waters
Jammu and Kashmir faces an impending water crisis as glaciers vanish, water bodies shrink, and irrigation systems falter, endangering agriculture, ecosystems, and daily life....
