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Thursday, August 6, 2026
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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

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....

Kashmir’s Ramazan Charity

During Ramazan, the spirit of giving transforms Kashmir’s streets into pathways of generosity. Volunteers distribute ration kits, iftar meals, and Zakat donations, upholding an...

Kashmir: An Omar Budget

Masood Hussain analyses the maiden budget proposals for Jammu and Kashmir by Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah who emerged as the first of the three-generation...

Kashmir: The Future Agriculture

Even as the once-dominant agriculture sector's contribution to the GSDP has plummeted to 18.25 per cent, the recent Agricultural Technology event hosted by SKUAST-K...

Kashmir: Smoking Fuels Cancer Surge

Lung cancer remains one of the most overlooked health crises in Kashmir. While globally half of the smokers get the lethal disease, a growing...

Kashmir: An Urban Policy Uproar

As part of the continued interventions in the laws and rules regulating the land resource in Jammu Kashmir, the government proposed sweeping amendments to...

Kashmir Industry: Double Trouble

Jammu and Kashmir’s manufacturing sector has survived a series of systemic and systematic interventions in the last five years. As the rail is anticipated...

Bypassed Banihal

With railway lines now connecting Srinagar to Katra and beyond, and a new bypass on the National Highway diverting traffic away from Banihal, the...

Kashmir’s Infertility Epidemic

With economic well-being overtaking the basic family institution, Kashmir tops the list of places where late marriages are the new norm. Coupled with tensions...