The Urdu Umpire
More than 130 years of being the official language of Jammu and Kashmir, Urdu’s fate hangs in balance as the downgraded state inches towards...
Tourists Return?
After 18 months of hiatus, the tourist footfalls have started surging in Kashmir. Insiders in the hospitality sector believe that if Gulmarg crowds are...
Zaldagar 1865
Kashmir’s first labour unrest, more than 150 years ago, was the outcome of the accumulation of immense exploitation that Kashmir’s working class was subject...
Killer’s last decade
Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...
Sex Slavery
Abducted, she spent more than a year as a sex slave entertaining drug addicts, paedophiles and other criminals who brutalized her childhood. She was...
Do Not Blame JHELUM
Governance failure apart, societal corruption, greed and biotic interventions in fragile ecology invited Rs 100,000 crore catastrophe to the City of Kashmir. R S...
Beyond Sadhna Top
As India and Pakistan are shelling each other’s positions, it is the civilian population that suffers the worst. Bilal Handoo spent a day with...
Sand Storm
At the peak of internet blockade, UT administration e-auctioned around 100 sand blocks along the Jhelum river and some of its tributaries. Most of...
A GOVERNMENT FOR SALARIES
As the lawmakers unanimously decided to double their wages for the second time in less than five years, the government employees have intensified their...
Wall Mounted Peace
An “eternally hopeful” PM Manmohan Singh once famously said the natural resources of the region will jointly be used by people from both sides...
Being Covid-19 Positive
Avoided by family and isolated at hospitals, the patients go through a gruelling ordeal on their path to recovery, reveals Saima Bhat
On March 16,...
Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935
Missionary educationist, Cecil Earle Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better understanding of the world...
The ‘Atonement’
When Delhi announced the return and rehabilitation policy for the youth who once crossed LoC to become fighters against India, it was a master...
Jagmohan Days
NDA government’s Padma Vibhushan to Jagmohan Malhotra pushed Kashmir back to his stint in the 1990s’, reliving the days and nights of horror and terror....
Compromise #1?
Ruling PDP accommodated miner lawmakers of its partner to block non-locals in mining sector. A day later, it faced an embarrassing situation when the...
