Hang Till Death
Twelve years after a six-year-old baby girl was kidnapped, raped, killed and thrown into a trench, the court awarded capital punishment to the convict....
Confusion confounded
He described the autopsy and forensic reports of Shopain rape and murder inconclusive, but Justice Jan himself came out not only with an inconclusive...
Facing The Music
Gulzar Bhat left carpet weaving and opted for carving out a niche of his own from the surging ‘faith business’. In a society preoccupied...
Deviating Clergy – A challenge
Involvement of a number of members from Muslim clergy in passion crimes across Kashmir has brought the highly respected role in Muslim society to a disrepute. P...
Rape of an investigation
The only bit of evidence on Shopian "rapes and murders" has been lost as CFSL report says that the vaginal swabs of victims have...
The only job
Almost all the young men of a forest village in Baramulla district indulge in timber smuggling, while the dealers make huge profits they continue...
Can forensics provide answers?
(People demanding arrest of Shopian rape and murder case culprits - Photo by: Bilal Bahadur)
Advances in forensic science can pinpoint the culprits in Shopian...
The Scholarship story
A year after the 2010 summer unrest, New Delhi announced a Special Scholarship Scheme to encourage students from J&K to pursue higher education. Two...
Braid Costs
As the mysterious hair-cutting of the womenfolk gets upgraded to a sort of epidemic, Kashmir is witnessing massive costs for its economy and the...
Bride Burners
The alarming trend in which families resort to kerosene and a match-stick instead of counselling, to manage conjugal discord, is worrisome. A society that...
In crosshairs
No police chief has finished his innings in J&K in such a controversy as Kuldeep Khuda, one of the longest serving DGPs of the...
Yet Another Murder?
After struggling for life for almost a week, when mother of two kids felt that she may not survive, she gave graphic detail of...
The Lethpora Story
In an investigation that took more than 28 rims of paper to be written upon, the federal investigator has finally seven of the 19...
Left In The Lurch
In the Jammu and Kashmir’s downgrade to a Union Territory, most of the autonomous Commissions were closed down. These included the Commission for Women....
Poppy Pop Up
Marijuana is outdated. Now poppy cultivation is popular in Kashmir because it yields better, faster, is less labour intensive and has a niche market...
