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Saturday, April 20, 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

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...
Kids of Darul Manan. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur

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...
IUST (File Pic)

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...
IAS Shah Faesal

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...