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Sunday, March 24, 2024
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Cover Story

This is the major copy on most important happening in a week that usually features on page one of the magazine

Elusive Power

Salal launched the NHPC, and J&K’s power ambitions in seventies. As successive governments in Srinagar sought its return, an inflexible New Delhi is unmoved...

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...

Getting Married

Supposed to be simple, the marriage has evolved into a complex, elaborate and expensive exercise in Kashmir’s conservative society, reports Ibrahim Wani It is a...

Sacked

J&K is 'celebrating' 2011 as anti-corruption year, but the headless State Accountability Commission is mocking at the symbolism of India’s second most corrupt state....

Loading the dice

The civil society has started to speak out against corruption, which apparently has become part of life in the state. Last month a group...

High Way To Destruction

Kashmir is losing a generation to drugs, with medicinal opiates being the most abused substances to get a high. Social stigmatisation is keeping many...

FOR LOVE OF THEIR LAND

Many professionals are returning to Kashmir giving up lucrative jobs in foreign countries to contribute in the development and progress of their native land....

OVERWHELMING VOTE

Ongoing panchayat polls have seen heavy voter turnout. Different people have different reasons to contest and participate but will it trigger a change. P...

The grass roots democrats

The elections to the village councils and village heads have seen a diverse set of contestants. Kashmir Life profiles some of the elected and...

The Famous Family

Ravinder Singh Binder won the sarpanch elections in Simbal Camp, a village were migrants from the other side were settled after partition. The village...

MESS OF A TRADE

Ten months after Prime Minister Singh promised to make trans-LoC trade ‘more viable and hassle-free’, President Zardari termed it a ‘pioneering CBM’ on Kashmir....

Sangh On Sale

The BJP won a historic mandate in Jammu - 11 of the 87 seats in 2008 state elections after enforcing an economic blockade on...

A Jokers Jaunt

As the BJP state president Shamsher Singh Manhas started introducing his party’s delegation of lawmakers on a study tour of the state in the...

Disillusioned with saffron brigade

The sale of votes by BJP lawmakers has seriously dented the party’s image and angered its supporters, forcing its MLA to resign but analysts...

NOT FOR KIDS

Age is no bar for long and harsh detentions in Kashmir, even if there the state falters on facilities for underage detainees required under...