Trading Forex with Indian Rupee and Other Major Currencies
Forex trading is the buying and selling of various currencies with the aim of making a profit. Since it is one of the most prevalent sorts of trading, it attracts a large number of...
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 an indication, Kashmir may have a better tourist year, reports Khalid...
Dying Art Of Papiermachie
Dwindling economic utility of the art is forcing artisans in Kashmir villages to give up on it, reports Samreena Nazir
On a snowy afternoon of January, facing towards the only window of the room, surrounded...
A vanishing aroma
Abdul Aziz Kozgar inherited the craft of making rosewater manually, but is unlikely to pass it on to the next generation. Shazia Yousuf talks to the only surviving rosewater man.
Inside, the shop is dark....
Lending: Managing Price, Risk
Credit in conflict areas is expensive because it involves risk. But the government can rediscover its subsidies set up and invest a bit of it in offering credit guarantees for making banks comfortable in...
The Eid Slump
Eid has ceased to be a business opportunity as the fall in liquidity and inflation has seriously crippled the purchasing capacity of the consumer. The politics and the pandemic is adding to the retail...
Economic Collapse
With tens of thousands of jobs gone in last one year and no economic activity visible in the immediate future, most of the businesses are landing on the brinks of collapse, reports Tasavur Mushtaq
Barely 50...
Walnut Falls
Farmers, businessmen and politicians exhibit no difference when they start counting the foreign exchange earnings, almost stagnant for the last few years. Muhammad Younis looks on the flip side of the small commerce and...
The Reasi Lithium
The Geographical Survey of India (GSI) revelations that Reasi hills hold vast treasures of rare and expensive lithium have triggered hopes of a better carbon-free future and a lot of prosperity. The inferred deposits...
Drabu Explains Jaitley’s Budget
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely’s budget was explained by PDP leader and former state Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu in an interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfzYwP9U1k&feature=youtu.be
Economist Dr Haseeb Drabu, J&K former finance minister believes that Arun Jaitely’s budget...
A Crisis, An Opportunity
Losses to Kashmir apple orchards can be assessed properly only after the government’s final survey is over. Amid mass mourning over the recent calamity, there is a strong possibility of the crisis being converted...
Wooing investment
New Delhi has extended the excise exemption to industry operating in J&K for another 10 years. But the contents of the package have brought a reluctant cheer to industrialists here. A Kashmir life report.
Finance...
The Common Factor
They have different roles and status, and ideologies too. But all the three have one thing in common, asking community to contribute for rainy days. Police’s Welfare Fund may have operational problems but is...
Packing Apples
Apple packaging is a key ingredient to Kashmir’s apple economy that keeps thousands of people busy round the year to manage more than 70 million boxes a year. Farzana Nisar visits three South Kashmir hamlets that...
