Jammed January
As mercury dropped to a record low consistently, Kashmir faced the harshest winter in thirty years. With cascading effect on every sphere of life, Saima...
‘Rethink Power Projects On Unstable Slopes’
Dr Irfan Rashid, a Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Kashmir’s Department of Geoinformatics has the distinction of being the first INSA (Indian...
Showcasing An Extinction
The fossil abundant Kashmir has a vast potential of becoming the subject matter of global understanding of the last recorded mass extinction of species....
Snow In January
Science and tradition suggest that early winter snowfall is good for Kashmir ecology but the fragile service delivery systems sent people crying, reports Yawar...
Reclaiming Khushal Sar
The government avoided any commitment that it will restore the freshwater lake. Eventually, a social activist threw his hat in the ring, handheld the...
Plant Collectors In Kashmir
While studying Botany, students hardly spare a thought about the processes and the people who gave their lives to identify and name the plants...
Living Dangerously
Timber smuggling is a lucrative but risky business. Many young men have lost their lives while smuggling timber. Hamidullah Dar explores the factors that lead...
Drought storm
In Pakistan IFTIKHAR GILANI finds why water issue is upping the ante against India along with the longstanding Kashmir issue.
On my way back to...
Dumping Woes
The debate around Achan dumping site misses one important element: the security of kids living in the neighbourhood from canine dogs. Syed Asma spends...
New Bird Flu
With people desperate for a vaccine to manage the Covid-19, a pandemic that has killed two million people worldwide, the new bird flu has...
Work In Progress
A chain of conservation schemes were launched to revive Dal Lake’s lost glory. Equipped with the latest contraption and expert advice from professionals, the...
Srinagar’s Shrinking Green Space
A tourist hub and home to nearly 2.5 million people, Srinagar is breathing pollution and lacks adequate green space to repair its lungs, Raashid...
Explaining Traeth
When the deadly dark clouds burst into bangs, these actually are big bangs for some people because they have to recreate their lives later,...
Plastic Millionaires
The ever-increasing consumption is massively throwing heaps of plastic, iron and paper packaging almost everywhere in urban and peripheral Kashmir. It is a huge...
The Amarnath Flood
Reviving memories of the 1996 tragedy, the flash flood – the third since 2015, near the cave shrine of Amarnath killed 15 pilgrims and...
