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...
SARFAESI Sales
Properties acquired by wilfully bank defaulters were always auctioned through protracted judicial processes, a system that SARFAESI law simplified. As Jammu and Kashmir is...
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...
Creating A Cushion
A few students were desperate to find an option for getting a few minors out of child labour. They chipped in with their pocket...
Virus of Stigma
Blaming the Covid-19 patients for their disease is weakening the efforts to control it, reports Saima Bhat
After walking out of a hotel along Boulevard...
Collateral Damage
Days after estranged Syed Ali Geelani transferred ‘his property’ to an autonomous trust, Jama’at-e-Islami cried foul. The controversy brought once fair weather friends face...
A University’s Fall
Started on a high note with western model in mind, IUST is falling from grace even before a formal take-off. With political connections, family...
Curious Case Of Shah Faesal
After emerging as the poster boy in 2010 by topping the coveted IAS and breaking the psychological barrier to a new avenue of public...
MANAGING ECONOMY
Public finances comprise major part of Kashmir’s economy, leaving government as the main employer, spender and the policy maker. As Finance Ministry is rushing...
Covid Champions
Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...
Drastic Drive?
The high-pitch campaign to enforce lockdown is making society’s vulnerable sections to pay for attempts to earn livelihoods for their desperate families, reports Minhaj...
Rumblings Within PAGD
The grouping’s unity has come under fresh strain following apprehensions voiced about its functioning by some of the senior leaders, reports Yawar Hussain
Even as...
No Cherry Blossom
With part of the apple already lost, it is now cherry and strawberry paying the pandemic costs. The two most delicate fruits with lowest...
Besieged By Coronavirus
As the world scrambles to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, fear and anxiety have gripped Kashmir too. Saima Bhat reports about how people have started coping...
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...